On 30 January 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival invited Booker T. Jones, Donald "Duck" Dunn and Steve Cropper of the Booker T. & the M.G.s to hold a jamming session at the Factory in Berkeley, California, although Booker T. drummer Al Jackson wasn't able to participate due to sickness. It was quite a natural collaboration since CCR had always admired this Stax label house band, and John Fogerty and others in the band had already met Steve Cropper at Stax Studios in Memphis 1969 and exchanged phone numbers. In the jam session at the Factory, they played rock and soul, 12-bar blues, covers of Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding, plus their own songs, and after the session finished at 2am, the bands played a basketball game at the Factory, and later the following day CCR performed one of their finest gigs at Oakland Arena in California. The session might have influenced later recordings by CCR, as it's sometimes suggested that John Fogerty's interest in putting Hammond B3 on 'Pendulum' was a direct nod to Booker T. & the M.G.s, and the mutual admiration both bands had for each other, and the two groups combined forces again in summer 1970 when they toured together in the US. The session was filmed and recorded professionally, although it has only been available on poor sounding bootlegs for years, but this copy has much better sound quality, and I've also tidied it up to remove a lot of the extraneous chatter between the tracks, so enjoy this meeting of two classic bands at the peak of their powers.
Track listing
01 Jam Warm Up
02 Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)
03 Proud Mary
04 Travelin' Band
05 Born On The Bayou
06 Down On The Corner
07 Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do) (Reprise)
08 I Put A Spell On You
09 Final Jam
