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CCR’S FINAL STUDIO ALBUM 

 LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 11, 2020…YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND, I LOVE CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, SO THIS ONE IS A SAD ONE FOR ME BECAUSE ON THIS DATE IN 1972 CCR RELEASED WHAT WOULD PROVE TO BE THEIR FINAL STUDIO ALBUM. THE ALBUM WAS ‘MARDI-GRAS’. THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE FIRST ALBUM CCR RELEASE AS A TRIO. TOM FOGERTY LEFT BEFORE THE ALBUM WAS RECORDED. IT WAS ALSO THE FIRST ALBUM THAT JOHN FOGERTY DID NOT DOMINATE. OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BAND ACCUSED HIM OF BEING A CONTROL FREAK, SO FOGERTY LET THEM DO MORE OF THE SONGWRITING AND HAVE A MORE PROMINENT ROLE ON THE RECORD. IT WAS ALSO THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE BAND, AS THE ALBUM WAS A FLOP AND THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL SINGLE WAS FOGERTY’S SONG ‘SWEET HITCH-HIKER’( WHICH WAS RELEASED AS A SINGLE A YEAR BEFORE THE ALBUM). HERE’S CCR AND ‘SWEET HITCH-HIKER’