I feel a bit sad winding down to the end of this review. Mainly because the songs at the tail end of the second side simply aren't as good for the most part as the tracks which preceded them. Grapevine is a case in point. A truly great song obviously but one that had already been nailed by wonderful, and quite definitive versions by Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips.
There's an interview on YouTube with bassist Stu Cook where the Australian interviewer tells Cook that Creedence that in the Seventies the Australian general public only knew the song through the Creedence version because so little black music was played on the radio at that point in time. Cook is quite rightly taken aback and also looks slightly ashamed. Listen to the other takes on it instead. Or even, the later, almost unhinged take on the song by The Slits. All put Creedence's version quite in the shade
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