November 24
Your prompt today is to play an album that represents your musical heritage.
Some of my earliest musical memories as a youngster were delivered via this big body Zenith countertop radio playing in our kitchen every morning...
Fun fact - it still works.
My dad's station of choice - WJRI, 1340 on your AM dial. We got your late 60s local radio usuals - the weather, school updates including what was for lunch that day, local news and sports, the ever-popular Swap Shop and a healthy, regular dose of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
What was officially considered 'punk rock' surfaced years later, but I can tell you listening to this song as a kid, the way it made me feel, the subject matter, and today seeing the visual of Tom frantically sawing his guitar and Doug and Stu, one of the greatest rhythm sections in music history, driving this thing along, it is totally punk rock...
Creedence Clearwater Revival - At The Royal Albert Hall April 14, 1970
Bonus Fantasy records buffoonery.
In 1980 they released
Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Royal Albert Hall Concert. Small detail - the tape they used was actually a show recorded in Oakland. Whoopsies. They quickly pulled the record and rebranded it as
The Concert. I have an OG before they discovered the err of their ways...