Mardi Gras (Album)
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| Label (s) | Fantasy Records | |||
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10 |
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28:04 |
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Wally Heider's Studio, San Francisco |
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Mardi Gras is the seventh and final studio album by the American rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival and was released in April 1972 on the Fantasy Records record label .
background
The album was named after Mardi Gras , the carnival festival of the American South. The album was created after Tom Fogerty left the group in 1971. It is essentially shaped by the emerging differences in the band. While John Fogerty wrote and produced the songs and arrangements alone on the earlier albums, it had now been agreed to distribute the roles more, as Stu Cook and Doug Clifford were no longer satisfied with their roles in the background of the band. This resulted in Clifford and Cook also singing in the songs they wrote.
The album received mostly negative reviews from the critics and did not sell as well as its predecessors.
Track list
- Lookin 'for a Reason (Fogerty) - 3:28
- Take It Like a Friend (Cook) - 3:00
- Need Someone to Hold (Clifford, Cook) - 3:00
- Tearin 'Up the Country (Clifford) - 2:14
- Someday Never Comes (Fogerty) - 4:01
- What Are You Gonna Do? (Clifford) - 2:53
- Sail Away (Cook) - 2:29
- Hello Mary Lou ( Gene Pitney ) - 2:14
- Door to Door (Cook) - 2:09
- Sweet Hitch-Hiker (Fogerty) - 2:59
production
- Producers: Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, John Fogerty
- Engineer: Russ Gary, Kevin L. Gray, Steve Hoffman
- Mastering Supervisor: Tamaki Beck
- Mastering: Shigeo Miyamoto
- Remastering: George Horn
- Arrangers: Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, John Fogerty
- Art Direction: Tony Lane
- Design: Tony Lane
- Cover design: Tony Lane
- Cover photos: Bob Fogerty, Baron Wolman
- Liner Notes: Craig Werner
Charts
album
| year | Chart | space |
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| 1972 | Pop albums | 12 |
Singles
| year | single | Chart | space |
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| 1971 | Sweet hitch hiker | Pop singles | 6th |
| 1972 | Someday Never Comes | Pop singles | 25th |
Web links
- Mardi Gras at Allmusic (English)
- Jon Landau : Mardi Gras - Not Rated . In: Rolling Stone Magazine May 26, 1976 (English); Criticism; Retrieved January 20, 2015