Artist: CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Album: COSMOS FACTORY 40 ANN. EDIT. (CD)

Release date: 1970/ 2008
EAN/UPS: 0888072308800
Media type: CD

The peak of a prolific streak, Cosmo's Factory was Creedence's fifth album in less than two years. It was a major commercial success, reaching #1 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and spawning three top-5 singles; "Lookin' Out My Back Door" (US #2), "Travelin' Band" (US #2), and "Up Around the Bend" (US #4) were all big hits. More amazingly, it also reached #11 on what was then the Billboard Soul Albums chart, a crossover feat nearly unheard of for a white pop/rock band. In 2003, the album was ranked number 262 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The name of the album comes from the warehouse in Berkeley where the band rehearsed. Bandleader John Fogerty was so insistent on practicing (nearly every day) that drummer Doug "Cosmo" Clifford began referring to the place as "the factory".

Early pressings of the album contain a three-second dropout on the left stereo channel during "Before You Accuse Me" and an earlier mix of "Travelin' Band" with John Fogerty's first solo mixed behind the horn section.

All songs written by John Fogerty, except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

1."Ramble Tamble" – 7:10
2."Before You Accuse Me" (Bo Diddley) – 3:27
3."Travelin' Band" – 2:07 ‡
4."Ooby Dooby" (Wade Moore, Dick Penner) – 2:07
5."Lookin' Out My Back Door" – 2:35
6."Run Through the Jungle" – 3:10 †

1."Up Around the Bend" – 2:42 †
2."My Baby Left Me" (Arthur Crudup) – 2:19
3."Who'll Stop the Rain" – 2:29 ‡
4."I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 11:07
5."Long as I Can See the Light" – 3:33

Note: All tracks recorded June 1970, except for † recorded March 1970 and ‡ recorded late 1969

40th Anniversary Edition CD bonus tracks:

12."Travelin' Band" (Remake Take) - 2:15
13."Up Around the Bend" (Live in Amsterdam, 9/10/71) - 2:41
14."Born on the Bayou" (Jam with Booker T. at Fantasy Studios) - 5:58

LINE-UP:

Doug Clifford - drums
Stu Cook - bass
John Fogerty - lead guitar, piano, saxophone, harmonica, vocals
Tom Fogerty - rhythm guitar