Just heard on NPR this morning that after 35 years of litigation Fantasy Records is in new hands and John Fogerty is releasing a greatest hits WITH CCR songs on it!
Cool news indeed!
Does that mean I can stop hating Saul Zaentz now?
Why would you do that? He’s still a weasel. And he still kant danz.
A few months ago, I went to see John Mellencamp in concert. John Fogerty was the opening act.
For me, Fogerty was a nice plus as I have always liked CCR, but I was really going to see Mellencamp.
Mellencamp was a disappointing live performance, while Fogerty rocked the house.
I am very glad I saw his show. It was one of the 5 to 10 best live performances I’ve ever seen.
Sweden?
He’s going to tour Sweden?
WTF happened to “Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana”? 
I saw it at Starbucks the other day.
Huh?
What’s so strange about that? He comes every two years or so and plays 5-10 different towns.
I didn’t think that genre would be popular outside the Southern USA.
Apparently I’m mistaken.
Really? I hoyd it through the grapevine 
English-sung rock music and musicians have been popular in Sweden for a long, long time. A couple of examples: the best recording of the best live performance by The Beatles was made on a radio show there, at Karaplansstudion. Jimi Hendrix played in Stockholm numerous times; in fact a stellar version of “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” that can be regarded as the best performance of that song ever given, is from Stockholm in January 1969. Swedes like American music, and it’s no surprise that CCR and John Fogerty are popular there, as well.
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Chronicle volumes I and II (20 tracks each) were released back in '76. How many gol-darned CCR greatest hits collections do we need? At this point you should just buy all their CDs. And now for my rendition of Green River:
Weeellllll…take me on down the hoo-ya boneyard…
Isn’t he the guy who owns The Lord of the Rings? [checks] Ah, yes, he is. Wow, big empire.
The new one is about 60% CCR and 40% solo hits.
[QUOTE=Torgo And now for my rendition of Green River:
Weeellllll…take me on down the hoo-ya boneyard…[/QUOTE]
Please elaborate, Sir. I had the lyrics wrong unwhooshed.
I grew up “about a mile from Texarkana” listening to them. One of my first dates was CCR at Barton. Europe or Scandanavia, it jest ain’t right.
The members of CCR all went to my high school in El Cerrito, California, a few miles north of Berkeley. Not only don’t you have to be from Dixie to like CCR, the band members themselves weren’t from there.