John Fogerty Legacy Album

I heard him in concert when he was 72 and he sounded amazing.  I thought his Blue Moon Swamp album was really good too. 

Just ordered the Legacy CD thank to you!

I think Fogerty's live albums are better, with Premonition (1998) in discount bins by now. Wrote a Song For Everyone (2013) is the best release from him in the 2000's.

It seems as though once he had the rights back to his CCR songs (recently) he hastily created and released Legacy. It does not sound bad but does not resonate with me and seems to be a rehash of those songs. 

He is 80, and considering The Police have reopened old wounds and are fighting over lawful rights at their age, I would think Mr. Fogerty has plans to offer up a definitive CCR greatest hits album in a new remastered format. Or maybe just cherry pick from the albums already remastered, which may have been less professionally remastered by the previous song rights owners. Many of those songs would sound great remixed and reworked with perhaps some new wrinkles to them like he did with Wrote A Song For Everyone.

Here is John’s reason from a recent interview why he rerecorded his music.  In the linked interview he gives his thoughts on all the CCR problems and controversies.  I haven’t heard Legacy yet so I can’t comment on that.

Interviewer:  After waiting over 50 years to regain the rights to the Creedence catalogue, why did you decide to re-record the songs rather than package up a new greatest hits?

John:  I think some of it was realising I’m never gonna be offered a chance to own the masters – none of us in the band will ever get that opportunity; they’ll be owned by a company, and another company, and it all gets very corporate. So, approaching 80 years old, it just seemed like, ‘Gee, what would I like to do? Well, I’d like to have some recordings that I actually own so that I get to control their destiny,’ you might say. There was a lot of impetus from my dear wife, who kinda envisioned the idea of me having an album made up of re-records. It gave me a project that was actually pretty difficult. It wasn’t like falling off a log.

John Fogerty on closure and reclaiming the Creedence legacy

^ Thx.

@aeschwartz 

Perhaps, for those if us who grew up hearing the original versions on our transistor radios, any other versions will inevitably feel like a let-down by comparison. Why? Simply because there is more than the music involved. Our memories of what it felt like to be young at a time when this music was so fresh and dynamically new are inextricably intertwined with the music.

The Legacy versions sound pretty good to me, especially considering his age. True, the vocals are not quite as energetic. I should disclose the fact that Credence is one of many bands I stopped listening to decades ago. I’ll crank Born On The Bayou or Up Around the Bend in the car but I haven’t owned any of their CDs in a very long time. It’s more nostalgia for me, at this point, than anything. 

That said, as a creative person, I can’t imagine how he must feel, not owning his music and having to re-record new versions. That is just evil.