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When John Fogerty sings the line, You cant go wrong if you play a little bit of that Creedence song, he knows better than anyone just how irony-laden the Creedence Song lyric is and how triumphant. After contributing an indelible canon of work to the rock n roll pantheon as the creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival (just what did they play at weddings before Proud Mary?), then refusing to touch his repertoire during years of litigation over ownership and even self-plagiarism accusations, he has again embraced the songs that provided a huge part of the late 60s/early 70s soundtrack of our lives: Fortunate Son, Bad Moon Rising, Born on the Bayou, Willy & the Poor Boys, Green River just to name a handful of CCRs nine top 10 hits between 1969 and 1971, all delivered with Fogertys unmistakable nasal twang and swamp-pop rhythms (even though his birthplace of Berkeley, Calif., couldnt be less bayou-like). On his latest album, Revival issued, even more ironically, on Fantasy Records, his original label, no longer owned by his old nemesis Fogerty re-embraces his musical history and his bent for politically topical subject matter. He may have given stadiums everywhere a baseball anthem with Centerfield, but hes still pissed off about war and other social ills. The Grammy-winning Rock n Roll Hall of Famer freely bares his righteous anger only now, its no longer about his own war wounds.
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