In fact, Fogerty and his wife Julie made contact with senior executives at Concord when the company was still in negotiations to purchase Fantasy. “We heard rumors over the years that Fantasy was on the market, but nothing materialized,” Fogerty says. "About a year ago we heard the same rumor again, so Julie and I met with Norman and other people at Concord just to get acquainted. At our first meeting, they expressed great respect and appreciation. When they finally acquired Fantasy, we figured the time was right to see if we could work together."
Fogerty is also enthusiastic about The Long Road Home. "I've always wanted to create a greatest hits collection that represented my entire career, but it was always painfully impossible to do so," he says. "Now I can combine the Creedence songs ... with my solo material. It’s great that I can finally document the various changes I’ve gone through musically over the years.”
The Long Road Home Track Listing:
1. Born On The Bayou
2. Bad Moon Rising
3. Centerfield
4. Who’ll Stop The Rain
5. Rambunctious Boy
6. Fortunate Son
7. Lookin’ Out My Back Door
8. Up Around The Bend
9. Almost Saturday Night (live)
10. Down On The Corner
11. Bootleg (live)
12. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
13. Sweet Hitch-Hiker
14. Hey Tonight (live)
15. The Old Man Down The Road
16. Rockin’ All Over The World (live)
17. Lodi
18. Keep On Chooglin’ (live)
19. Green River
20. Déjà Vu (All Over Again)
21. Run Through The Jungle
22. Hot Rod Heart
23. Travelin’ Band
24. Proud Mary
25. Fortunate Son (live)
Article comments
1 - DJRadiohead
If Roger Waters can re-team with Pink Floyd... why not?
I am going to have to check out that retrospective. That looks strong.
2 - Eric Olsen
yes, thanks Josh - I would think there would be quite a bit of interest in this
3 - DJRadiohead
That live version of "Rockin' AllOver the World" from Premonition is really great. Fogerty is one of a very small handful of guys to have a band and solo career worth combining for a retrospective.
4 - Eric Olsen
I agree: he's unique or near-unique on several levels
5 - godoggo
"water over the bridge"!!!
Actually, you're going to have to do much better than that to dethrone me as the Typo King.
Anyways, I've mentioned before that my favorite Creedence album is K-tel "20 Super Hits" 'cause it includes stuff like "Heard it Over the Grapvine" (snicker, snicker) with the long guitar solos expunged,
6 - godoggo
Or did that have some meaning to deep for me to fathom?
7 - The Duke
Thanks for the heads up Eric.
There's lot's of stuff NOT on there too. Which I would probably opt for as well. Commotion, Molina... hey what can I say? I gotta be me.
I just updated my wish list on Amazon.
Have a good weekend!
8 - The Duke
Hello again. I just did a bit of a study and comparative analysis (based on my own bias). For my money, Chronicles I and II, do it, however you don't get the Fogerty solo componants.
A couple of websites went over the history. Mardi Gras was done under quite a bit of stress. The "other" Forgerty leaves for a unsuccessful solo career and Cliff and Stu want a more democratic CCR. The album Mardi Gras is a result and depicts the waning CCR.
Why can't folks just git along? But they were together for quite a while.
The Fantasy stranglehold on the material kept the masses without for many years. It is good to see Fogerty reinstituting the relationship, if for nothing else the easement of rights and release of material under the CCR banner.
If anything can be learned from the entire Fantasy/CCR/Fogerty episode I guess it's GET A BULLETPROOF contract when dealing with the industry.
It was ugly and who suffers? The consumer. Exactly who business wouldn't want to see suffer; right? Obviously not, in this case. I was surprised to see that Fantasy was a Concorde sub. It wasn't always the case, which would have been shocking.
Thank you Concord for stepping up to the plate and resolving past differences. Your organization is to be commended and I will always regard your product and catalog with the highest esteem. I mean it.
adios
9 - Eric Olsen
godog, perhaps convoluted but not unintentional - what has dominated the news of late?
Duke, good thoughts, and I don't think this is definitive - I think Bayou Country, Green River, Willy and the Poorboys, Cosmo's Factory, and Pendulum are all pretty essential and worth owning, and then a solo collection would be nice to add to that.
But this is a nice overview also, heavy on the hits, but a great place to start for a newbie.
Click on the link in he second paragraph for the Concord/Fantasy story - it's a pretty big deal.
They just sent out a sampler of the new combined operation and their catalog is pretty damn astonishing
10 - Tube
How fitting since tonight's relief concert featured Foo Fighters covering "Born on the Bayou" and Garth Brooks covering "Who'll Stop the Rain?"
11 - Eric Olsen
cool Tube, thanks for the info! Too bad they didn't have John himself