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Having penned complete country-blues-swamp rock classics like "Bad Moon Rising", "Proud Mary" and "Born On The Bayou", singer, guitarist and general multi-instrumentalist John Fogerty need never have done anything much since the middle 1970s to secure his position in the rock 'n' roll pantheon. This is not even mentioning the remaining host of lower profile, but still mighty choogling, songs that he wrote for Creedence Clearwater Revival, nearly four decades ago.
Actually, the ensuing years have not been without their problems. Lawsuits over royalties, arguments with his Creedence cohorts, and an uncompromising attitude that, though admirable, has certainly neutered Fogerty's productive powers over the last two decades. As with so many artists in similar straits, a renewal has eventually occurred, with the arrival of an album that feels like a full artistic statement, coupled with a new touring vigour that finds Fogerty in bristling form. The man himself smiles wryly at the Fantasy Records logo sitting on his new release. This is the company with whom he waged an interminable legal war over the rights and royalties to those Creedence compositions.
The label was taken over by Concord Records in 2004, so there's the explanation...
Curiously, Fogerty rations his rockers quite carefully. The album opens with a couple of moderately safe country numbers, and it's obviously an intentional game-plan to gradually feed in the raunchier material. In fact, there's a completely smooth graph curve, rising up to the curt punkiness of the disc's climax. By this stage, Fogerty's song-lengths are down to under two minutes, his voice is frothing with moonshine, his guitar's ground up with broken nails and his lyrical content is getting angrier and angrier. By the sixth track "Long Dark Night", the harmonica's out, rasping in-between each verse, then Fogerty's as hard as Neil Young on "Summer Of Love", and as beseeching as Roy Orbison on "Natural Thing".
This recording's primed with excitement, but Fogerty's live renditions of these songs are even more brutal. Some albums peter out, some slump in the middle, but this one just keeps rising. --Martin Longley
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1-Don't You Wish It Was True 2-Gunslinger 3-Creedence Song 4-Broken Down Cowboy 5-River Is Waiting 6-Long Dark Night 7-Summer Of Love 8-Natural Thing 9-It Ain't Right 10-I Can't Take It No More 11-Somebody Help Me 12-Longshot (2007/CONCORD) 12 tracks (40:51) digipac
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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I rarely like every song on an album when I first hear them, but on Revival every song is at least good, most are excellent and great. I'm a big John Fogerty fan, and would probably not rate any of his albums very low, but this one is just special. In my opinion it is better than Centerfield and even Blue Moon Swamp as well as most of the Creedence albums. Revival might well be John Fogerty's best work ever.
The country rock of "Gunslinger", the autobiographical country ballad "Broken Down Cowboy", the hopefully choogling "Don't you wish it was true", the hilarious, bluesy and rocking political satire "Long Dark Night", the other blues rock song "Somebody Help Me", the spiritual "River is Waiting" featuring a great B.B. King style guitar solo and the AC/DCish Longshot all add to an impressive blend of different styles of American roots-rock.
Fogertys voice sounds great, the lyrics are some of his best and sharpest and the band is tight and rocking. 62-year-old John Fogerty delivers one of his very best and most rocking albums ever. Revival is a must have for anyone who likes Creedence Clearwater Revival or John Fogerty.
The country rock of "Gunslinger", the autobiographical country ballad "Broken Down Cowboy", the hopefully choogling "Don't you wish it was true", the hilarious, bluesy and rocking political satire "Long Dark Night", the other blues rock song "Somebody Help Me", the spiritual "River is Waiting" featuring a great B.B. King style guitar solo and the AC/DCish Longshot all add to an impressive blend of different styles of American roots-rock.
Fogertys voice sounds great, the lyrics are some of his best and sharpest and the band is tight and rocking. 62-year-old John Fogerty delivers one of his very best and most rocking albums ever. Revival is a must have for anyone who likes Creedence Clearwater Revival or John Fogerty.
45 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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Despite the obvious connection with the past and the Album Title plus the similarity with the cover photography from his previous "Blue Ridge Rangers" project. This represents a real return to form and possibly his best solo offering since the first "John Fogerty" Album.
Revival it most certainly is but that in essence is probably exactly what most of his fans want to hear. C.C.R. Revisited. The problem with Creedence is that it all ended much too soon in acrimonious circumstances betweeen the Band Members and the Record Label Fantasy. It`s taken all this time for John Fogerty to come to terms with the demons of his past and release a complete Album worthy of his considerable talents as a song writer and performer.
It`s very hard to select stand out tracks from this twelve song set. They'll all pretty damn good. However, "Long Dark Night" really kicks in hard. "Summer of Love" reminds listeners of C.C.R.`s appearence at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and "I can`t take it no more" is a frantic outcry against the Bush Regime and more specifically The War in Iraq. But it is "Creedence Song" which gives the whole Album the feeling of Deja Vu perspective. On a personal note I have recently considered J.F.'s Live set lists to show too much adherence to the C.C.R. Song Book when his own material stands up well and deserves greater opportunity for a Live airing.
Nothing currently available including the new Boss Album is much better than this. Good Time Rock 'N' Roll played with heart and sang with Soul. Welcome back with a vengence Foggy.
Revival it most certainly is but that in essence is probably exactly what most of his fans want to hear. C.C.R. Revisited. The problem with Creedence is that it all ended much too soon in acrimonious circumstances betweeen the Band Members and the Record Label Fantasy. It`s taken all this time for John Fogerty to come to terms with the demons of his past and release a complete Album worthy of his considerable talents as a song writer and performer.
It`s very hard to select stand out tracks from this twelve song set. They'll all pretty damn good. However, "Long Dark Night" really kicks in hard. "Summer of Love" reminds listeners of C.C.R.`s appearence at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and "I can`t take it no more" is a frantic outcry against the Bush Regime and more specifically The War in Iraq. But it is "Creedence Song" which gives the whole Album the feeling of Deja Vu perspective. On a personal note I have recently considered J.F.'s Live set lists to show too much adherence to the C.C.R. Song Book when his own material stands up well and deserves greater opportunity for a Live airing.
Nothing currently available including the new Boss Album is much better than this. Good Time Rock 'N' Roll played with heart and sang with Soul. Welcome back with a vengence Foggy.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I liked Creedencee Clearwater Revival since I heard Bad Moon Rising. Fogerty was the voice and creative force of creendence clearwater Revival and since he went solo he has released some really great albums. One of my all time favourites being Blue Moon Swamp....which is brilliant. This is his first release for many years and it revisits the sound of Creedence on many of the tracks. His music is a mix of rock, rock n roll, blues and country and it is a great mix. Highlights include Don't you wish it was true, broken down cowboy, gunslinger. However, no bad songs here. He is in great voice. This is a great rock album with great sounds which should be played loud. One of the releases of the year. Thoroughly enjoyable. If you like Creedence or CCCR you will enjoy this. Blue Moon Swamp remains my favourite but this runs it very close. Well worth buying. Highly recommended.
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Worth waiting for
It has been a long time coming but the end result is a quality product. My girlfriend and I listened to it for the first time on a long drive across Germany and Belgium and we... Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2008 by Roy Brookes
Starts slow
The trademark guitar and voice are in place, one of the most distinctive sounds in late 20th century music, yet it's 40 years since Creedence's heyday. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2008 by M. G. Wilson
jody fell out of his tractor
Simple, clean, uncluttered, concise and catchy, all the things his peers: the verbose, self important and over produced Eagles or muddy, trying too hard Springsteen never could be. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2007 by lastruebeliever
Not Credence but good. Just skip track 1!
When I first listened to this album I was soreley disappointed, but after a few listens I worked out why I hated it so much. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2007 by P. Hampton
The Past Is Past, The Present Is Pretty Average
I've been a big fan of Fogerty and Creedence since I first heard Proud Mary back in the spring of '69, and like many of his fans I've been guilty of wanting him to remake Cosmo's... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2007 by Nick Beal
You know their name: here's to Fogerty's Creedence
Try as he might to carve out a career under his own moniker, John Fogerty will always be known as the chief architect of Creedence Clearwater Revival - the band that gave you... Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2007 by C. O'Brien
Beautiful and Inspiring
My childhood was inspired by this guy's music - Up around The bend was anthemic for me so I was thrilled to see John perform at Glastonbury - his road has been hard and long but... Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2007 by welsh wizard
AT LAST!!!!!!
If you were a fan of Creedence and you have waited.. and waited...and waited. Well THIS is the one!
I don't need to say any more!
I don't need to say any more!
Published on 15 Sep 2007 by PHIL ALLITT
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