The success of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s first album pressured the band to do something even greater on their second LP. First things first: Bayou Country contains the rootsy, gripping “Proud Mary,” which—with its unusually clean guitars and working-class grandeur—is one of CCR singer/songwriter John Fogerty’s greatest compositions. The reverb- and tremolo-soaked “Born on the Bayou” contains Fogerty’s gravelly reveries on life in the American South.