John Fogerty’s “Rockin’ All Over the World,” the 1975 Solo Spark Status Quo Took Worldwide
Before it became a worldwide chorus, John Fogerty’s 1975 rocker was a solo artist’s compact...
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John Fogerty’s “The Old Man Down the Road”: The 1985 Centerfield Hit That Put His Own Voice on Trial
A comeback song so unmistakably Fogerty that recognition itself became the argument against it. When...
John Fogerty’s “Vanz Kant Danz”: The Centerfield Satire Renamed but Not Defanged
A changed title could not quiet the bite in John Fogerty’s Vanz Kant Danz. When...
John Fogerty’s It Ain’t Right Turns Revival’s 2007 Roots-Rock Drive Into Renewal
It Ain’t Right catches John Fogerty using old roots-rock tools for a present-tense warning. Released...
John Fogerty’s “Have Thine Own Way, Lord” and the Solitude of His 1973 Country Turn
In 1973, John Fogerty answered a season of transition by turning a hymn into a...
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 Title Track Green River Found a River in Soda Syrup
A childhood soda flavor became a river of memory in Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 title...
Before Creedence Had the Swamp: The Golliwogs’ “You Came Walking” and the Fogertys’ 1965 Search
Before Creedence became a voice of rivers, rain, and hard-road rhythm, The Golliwogs caught John...
An Old Warning Gets Company: John Fogerty’s 2009 Garden Party with Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit
John Fogerty’s 2009 Garden Party became more than a cover when two Eagles voices joined...
A Soda Label Became a River: Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Green River and the Putah Creek Memory
Before it sounded like a Southern river myth, Green River was a California childhood memory...
Letting Go Had Company: John Fogerty Covers Rick Nelson’s Garden Party With Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit
In John Fogerty’s 2009 version of Garden Party, Rick Nelson’s lesson about expectation becomes a...
Alone After Creedence, John Fogerty Rebuilt Bobby Edwards’ “You’re the Reason” on His 1973 Solo Debut
On You’re the Reason, John Fogerty turned a country favorite into a quiet test of...
John Fogerty’s Harmonica Turned Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Poorboy Shuffle Into Willy and the Poor Boys’ Back-Porch Secret
On Willy and the Poor Boys, “Poorboy Shuffle” is the brief back-porch detour where John...
Before the Bayou Took Hold: Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1968 Wilson Pickett Cover “Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do)”
On their 1968 debut, Creedence Clearwater Revival turned Wilson Pickett’s demand for “a hundred” into...
John Fogerty’s Radar Took a Left Turn, Letting Disco and New Wave Into Déjà Vu All Over Again
On Radar, John Fogerty briefly steps away from the weathered road and lets a sleeker,...
A Two-Minute Detour Says Plenty: Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Poorboy Shuffle on Willy and the Poor Boys
A brief instrumental tucked inside a famous 1969 album, Poorboy Shuffle lets Creedence Clearwater Revival...
Old Wounds Under the Harmony: John Fogerty Covers Rick Nelson’s Garden Party with Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit
On Garden Party, John Fogerty did more than honor Rick Nelson; with Don Henley and...
A B-Side Became the Clue: John Fogerty’s “Evil Thing” and the Vanished Hoodoo Album
Before Hoodoo disappeared into rock-and-roll rumor, John Fogerty left one sharp, uneasy clue on the...
Before Woodstock Made Them Mythic, Creedence Clearwater Revival Put Grit Into “Ninety-Nine and a Half”
Before Creedence Clearwater Revival became shorthand for swamp-rock certainty, their Wilson Pickett cover showed a...
Alone With Every Instrument, John Fogerty’s “Flying Away” Carried the Weight of a 1975 Rebirth
On Flying Away, John Fogerty turned a solo recording into something more exposed: one man...
A Front-Porch Detour: Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Poorboy Shuffle Inside Willy and the Poor Boys
On Poorboy Shuffle, Creedence Clearwater Revival paused the roar of 1969 and let a small...
A Buried Guitar Spark: John Fogerty’s “Just Pickin’” and the Freddie King Thread in Blue Moon Swamp
Before it became a remaster bonus, John Fogerty’s “Just Pickin’” caught him speaking fluently in...
Before the Bayou Myth, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1968 Wilson Pickett Cover “Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do)” Revealed Fogerty’s R&B Fire
Before the swamp-rock image hardened around Creedence Clearwater Revival, this fierce 1968 Wilson Pickett cover...
A Ghost Story Got Louder: John Fogerty’s 2009 Haunted House Cover on The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
In John Fogerty’s hands, Haunted House stops being just a spooky rock-and-roll joke and becomes...
Green River’s Darkest Shadow: Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Sinister Purpose Hits Heavier Than Memory
Beneath Green River’s radio-bright surface, Sinister Purpose pulls Creedence Clearwater Revival into a darker, heavier...
A Childhood Hedge Opens John Fogerty’s Rhubarb Pie on Déjà Vu All Over Again
In John Fogerty’s quiet Rhubarb Pie, a childhood shortcut becomes a small map of memory,...
A Darker Tide Carries John Fogerty’s Sail Away Out of Eye of the Zombie
At the end of Eye of the Zombie, John Fogerty lets the river darken, closing...
John Fogerty’s “Blue Moon Nights” Turns Blue Moon Swamp Toward the Ghost of Sun Records
With “Blue Moon Nights”, John Fogerty reached back to the raw pulse of early rock...
No Band Left to Hide Behind: John Fogerty’s Ricochet, the 1973 B-Side to Comin’ Down the Road
On the back of a modest 1973 single, John Fogerty’s Ricochet carried the uneasy sound...
John Fogerty’s Funk Detour: Wasn’t That a Woman Pulled Eye of the Zombie Toward Motown
On Wasn’t That a Woman, John Fogerty steps away from the familiar swamp-rock frame and...
Before the Bayou Legend, Creedence Clearwater Revival Made Wilson Pickett’s “Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do)” Heavy
On their 1968 debut, Creedence Clearwater Revival used Wilson Pickett’s soul declaration as a proving...