I love The Clearwater Swimmers. How could you not with a name like that. Creedence Clearwater Revivals. The Swimming Pool Q's. A name that is immediately steeped in American folk and musical lore that you know this is going to be good before you listen to a single note.
And the record itself. The Clearwater Swimmers epnymous debut album is even better than that. It's the best record I've heard today. That good. Comparisons are rife. And the record rises and clears the bar at every challenge. A salmon making its way upstream in a river in the Appalachian Mountains.
This is poignant, and moving stuff. Grandaddy's country cousins.This is a vision and chemistry that has been worked on with inbredible love and care. Magical in the way Marquee Moon, Reckoning, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and Software Slump were magical. High praise. I could wite an essay about this album but I'll leave it there. Alchemy
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