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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country (LP Vinyl) artist-daniel-donato which makes the location fittingReleased in January 1969, *Bayou Country* arrived just six months after CCR's debut and announced John Fogerty's singular vision in full, a swampy, bayou drenched sound that had nothing to do with the San Francisco psychedelia surrounding the band in the Bay Area. That tension, four guys from El Cerrito playing music that felt ancient and immediate all at once, is exactly what makes this record so enduring and why hearing it cut at half speed from the