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Title: CCR go out with a whimper
Review: There's a reason this is much maligned; it's a very poor swan song from CCR. Fogerty checks in briefly with two terrific songs--the country opener Lookin' For A Reason and Someday Never Comes. Sweet Hitchhiker, despite a roaring guitar riff and a great Fogerty vocal, is CCR by the numbers. Stu Cook and Doug Clifford contribute some interesting numbers but they lack the focus and power of Fogerty's weakest material much less his strongest. Most of the originals sound like second hand garage rock knock offs of popular songs.The reality was this; CCR had returned to The Golliwogs. For the first time in their history CCR sounded like a pale imitation of themselves and half a dozen other bands. Like The Beatles' Let It Be, Madri Gras was anti-climax to a brief but bright career as America's finest rockers.
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