Consumer Guide Album

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Pendulum [Fantasy, 1970]
"Molina" and "Pagan Baby," which make Creedence history as the first John Fogerty songs about women, are slightly subpar, "Sailor's Lament" is a little more so, and the Booker T. cum Terry Riley organ doodle on "Rude Awakening #2" is a pretentious moment I hope--and expect--he has the sense never to repeat. The rest is six songs so superpar Steve Barri or Tommy James would kill (or least steal) for them. Ho hum, another Creedence album. A−