Product description 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 Review 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 LongleyFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window
L**R
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. On `Broken Down Cowboy' JCF hits home harder and truer emotionally than he has ever done - with the possible exception of `Someday Never Comes'. Along with the infectious title track, cool `Gunslinger' and a few short sharp sweet rockers `Broken Down Cowboy' finds the West Coast rocker at his best, the gospel inflected `River is Waiting' is reminiscent in spirit to the terrific `Sail Away' (from the otherwise undistinguished `Zombie' album). Perhaps the material overall on `Revival' is not as good as that great benchmark `Blue Moon Swamp' - nevertheless this stripped down hog is a satisfying return to form. Fogerty is still ahead of everyone else!
A**!
Fogerty for President
Simply superb from country to blues to rock seemless from probably the greatest living American fogerty for president every track from the opener don't you wish it was true to the heavy rock of longshot is brilliantly crafted the superb gunslinger the cry from all us decent folk God bless you John ! Scathing of American foreign policies and right on the money with the punk rocker yes ! Can't take it no more ! I can when it's John Fogerty at the helm ! Brilliant album .
R**S
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 liked it so much that we let it repeat several times. The melodies are good, the musicianship is first class and some of the political comment is very apt. he even nods in the direction of CCR a couple of times. Great stuff!
C**C
Love it
Love John Fogerty terrific C /D played it time after time.
A**R
Four Stars
As good as any CCR album.
T**Y
Fogerty Revival
John Fogerty cant do anything wrong as far as I m concerned. Brilliant voice, excellent songs, fantastic musician....mix it all together and you get great ballads and brilliant rock songs by one of the all time greats.
D**H
Fantastic Fogerty
John Fogerty,still as good as he was in the good old days of Creedence Clearwater Revival,pity they broke up & pity we don"t hear more from John.Roll on his new album "Wrote a song for everyone",I want it !!!
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by this or miss out.
this is one of those albums-a one off-many styles done superbly by a superstar.one of my favourite cds of all time-a big statement but true.
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