A brand new documentary will chronicle the rise of Creedence Clearwater Revival, structured round their triumphant 1970 efficiency at London’s famed Royal Albert Corridor.
Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival on the Royal Albert Corridor marks the primary time full live performance footage of the band’s unique lineup has ever been launched. However the film is greater than a live performance movie. In accordance with a press launch, Travelin’ Band will take viewers on “a journey from the band’s humble, but early life in El Cerrito, CA, to their meteoric rise in 1969, from headlining Woodstock to promoting out the Oakland Coliseum earlier than touring by Europe and taking the stage on the Royal Albert Corridor.”
Academy Award profitable actor — and famous CCR fan — Jeff Bridges will narrate the documentary, whereas two-time Grammy winner Bob Smeaton will direct. Rock followers will know Smeaton for his work on The Beatles Anthology and Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsies – Dwell at Fillmore East.
“As a child rising up within the U.Ok. throughout the late sixties, early seventies, Creedence had been a band that I used to be solely actually conscious of by their hit singles,” the director admitted. “Subsequently making this movie was an training for me, I used to be capable of see and listen to why they’re worthy of their standing as one of many best bands of all time. I knew they had been good, I by no means knew they had been that good.”
A big array of never-before-seen footage shall be featured within the documentary, together with what’s believed to be the earliest movie recording of CCR performing. The unique Royal Albert Corridor live performance footage had been saved in a London vault for 50 years and was totally restored for the venture.
A launch date for Travelin’ Band has not but been introduced.
Eager CCR followers could recall that the dwell album The Royal Albert Corridor Live performance was launched by Fantasy Data in 1980. The incorrectly titled LP was really a recording of the band’s 1970 efficiency at Oakland Coliseum. It will later be reissued underneath the title The Live performance.
