COVER OF THE WEEK

# 21 is Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Cosmo's Factory" from 1970.
The LP is titled after the rehearsal studio in drummer Doug "Cosmo" Clifford's house.
It was the groups fifth album, and became Creedence best selling thanks to a number of classic songs.

On the cover you can see the members relaxing in what could be the rehearsal studio, but might not. Different sources say different things. From left to right: John Fogerty, Stu Cook, Tom Fogerty and Cosmo himself.

On the back there's a collage of pictures of the band members apparently snapped during the recording sessions for the album.

At this point and time John was running the group, writing the songs and making the decisions.

They might look happy on the cover, but the rest of the group wanted to have more input, and after the follow up "Pendulum" John decided to let the group become a more democratic one. His brother Tom left for a solo career and Stu and Doug wrote and sang some tracks on the final album "Mardi Gras". A record at that time described by one critic as the worst album made by a successful group.

So however relaxed and content they look on the cover, as well as sure in their playing on the record itself, the future meant that in two more years the group was no more ... and 30 years later they're still not on speaking terms!

"Cosmo's Factory" has a mix of originals and covers that all get the patented CCR sound. Hear some of them on RadioDupree this week.

And finally; where did they come up with THAT band name - Creedence Clearwater Revival?

Well, Creedence Nuvall was the actual name of a friend known by Tom Fogerty when he worked at Pacific Gas and Electric. Clearwater was borrowed from a phrase in a beer ad that John Fogerty liked. Revival came from the fact that the group had been performing together for nearly ten years, and they were finally about to have a shot at the big time.