{"id":29724,"date":"2025-10-10T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=29724"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:53:43","slug":"john-fogertys-turn-to-revisit-creedence-part-3-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/john-fogertys-turn-to-revisit-creedence-part-3-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fogerty\u2019s Turn to Revisit Creedence (Part 3 of 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Continued from Part Two<\/a>…<\/i><\/p>\n

Is it your hope that these new versions will be used for sync in film, television and the like? Perhaps even in place of the original versions? <\/b><\/p>\n

You know, when I was doing this, I really didn\u2019t think about that much. Lo and behold, I believe my wife has<\/i> thought about those things.<\/p>\n

Does your wife Julie take a role in helping sort out these kinds of thing? <\/b><\/p>\n

She\u2019s a force of nature; she\u2019s amazing. But I dare say Julie has knowledge of those kind of things. I remember when I met her all those years ago; she was nowhere near the music business, which was such a refreshing thing. I would talk about [music business matters] and she wouldn\u2019t really understand, because she was a Midwest girl.<\/p>\n

I remember once watching a TV special about the song \u201cWhy Do Fools Fall in Love?\u201d Morris Levy had put his name all over it, but the actual songwriter finally got credit for that song. Julia and I were watching together, and she turned that sweet, very innocent face to me and she said, \u201cI don\u2019t understand. Why was he trying so hard for this?\u201d<\/p>\n

And I looked at her and I said, \u201cHoney, it\u2019s like you were supposed to be getting a dollar, and then Morris Levy shows up and now you\u2019re only getting 50 cents.\u201d Her face got this amazing look of understanding and enlightenment. And also indignation: That\u2019s wrong, you know<\/i>. And I said, \u201cWell, that\u2019s what this man was fighting for.\u201d And it was just one of those simple things. She has certainly learned about things; we\u2019ve had a ton of those kind of discussions in the last 40 years.<\/p>\n

I still tend to be the guy who just makes music. And I keep myself as that person, because whenever I stray outside and try to act like, \u201cI\u2019m going to be a business mogul; I\u2019m going into real estate,\u201d or something like that, I sort of dry up and get not-very-musical. I don\u2019t know what that is; I don\u2019t know if I just have a limited immune system about it or something. So I tend to just hope that things will work themselves out and that Julie will notice it.<\/p>\n

The last couple decades or so have been marked, it seems, in part by you revisiting your past, specifically the legacy (so to speak) of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Your 2009 album <\/b>The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again<\/b><\/i> was a sequel to your 1973 solo debut. Your 2013 album <\/b>Wrote a Song for Everyone<\/b><\/i> found you recording CCR songs, joined by famous guests like Bob Seger and Foo Fighters. <\/b>Fogerty\u2019s Factory<\/b><\/i> we\u2019ve already talked about: more CCR songs. And now <\/b>Legacy<\/b><\/i>. What\u2019s next for you?<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, Legacy<\/i>\u2026 I enjoyed that process very much. One guy said to me, \u201cI noticed [that the album\u2019s full title] is Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years<\/i>. Does that mean your next album is going to be The John Fogerty Solo Years<\/i>?\u201d I looked at him and I said, \u201cYou know, that never really occurred to me at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe Julie thought about that, but I sure never did. Julie\u2019s amazing, so I don\u2019t know: Maybe she did. But in my mind, the process of doing this with my kids, exploring the music and getting to a place where everyone\u2019s really happy with what\u2019s been done, that was the magical part. So I\u2019m looking forward to [more of] that.<\/p>\n

If you revisited your solo years, there\u2019s always all the songs from <\/b>Hoodoo<\/b><\/i><\/a>, the album you recorded but didn\u2019t release back in 1976. You could take another crack at that if you chose to. <\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s so funny that you mention that.<\/p>\n

You know, I\u2019ve never been interested in going back to those songs. Some people would say, \u201cOh, re-record those!\u201d And I always say, \u201cWell, that was an album made by a fairly injured man.\u201d I was not on my full game. I hear songs [on Hoodoo<\/i>] that seem to me to be kind of incomplete; that would certainly be my take on it.<\/p>\n

But Julie found [a tape of] that somewhere, a really good version of it. She\u2019s played a few of them over the last eight months; one here, one there. And I\u2019ve tended to hear them in a little better light now, going, \u201cWell, I guess it\u2019s not as awful as I thought it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

That whole time was pretty hard for me, and I did relive the time as much as relive the songs. So I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m interested in re-recording that. But heck, I re-recorded \u201cProud Mary,\u201d so I suppose anything\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

New songs would be great, too. <\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. I would think that\u2019s the big kick, either writing songs together or working on a song Tyler or Shane has written, or ones that I\u2019ve written, or written with them. I seem to have landed at a place where all of those things are okay now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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