John Fogerty reworks CCR songs for new album

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John Fogerty has confirmed that his upcoming album will be centered around classic Creedence Clearwater Revival songs, but the album’s engineer says the result is completely new songs. Kid Rock, Bob Seger, Jennifer Hudson and the Foo Fighters are among the confirmed musicians who contributed to ‘Wrote a Song for Everyone.’

“It’s no nostalgia fest,” Bob Clearmountain tells Rolling Stone. Fogerty says he waited to record with each of his chosen partners until they could meet in studio and do it live. “I didn’t want to just mail people tracks because then everyone would just do ‘Proud Mary’ like the old record,” he says in the same interview.

He’s been working on the album since 2010, and originally scheduled it for release in October 2012. A press release about the delay suggested there would be original material on the album, something that is not addressed in the Rolling Stone article. The focus is on the old CCR songs, however. Fogerty has finally regained publishing rights to the songs after a lengthy legal battle.

“I wrote all these songs,” he said. ” They’re back home with Daddy, like they should be.”

Confirmed songs on ‘Wrote a Song for Everyone’ include ‘Fortunate Son,’ ‘Born on the Bayou’ and ‘Long As I Can See the Light.’

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Good for John, I am tired of artists not having control over their creations...whether this battle was with his old band mates or contractual obligations with the record company I'm not sure.

I keep looking for a copy of "Cosmos Factory", there are a few old CCR albums being reissued in vinyl, but not that one which is my favorite.
 

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I'm glad John feels comfortable with his old tunes again, but as for the new stuff, well, I think I'll stick with the old CCR albums.
 

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‘Wrote a Song for Everyone’ Tracklisting:

1. ‘Fortunate Son’ (Feat. the Foo Fighters)
2. ‘Almost Saturday Night’ (Feat. Keith Urban)
3. ‘Lodi’ (Feat. Shane and Tyler Fogerty)
4. ‘Mystic Highway’
5. ‘Wrote a Song for Everyone’ (Feat. Miranda Lambert and Tom Morello)
6. ‘Bad Moon Rising’ (Feat. the Zac Brown Band)
7. ‘Long As I Can See the Light’ (Feat. My Morning Jacket)
8. ‘Born on the Bayou’ (Feat. Kid Rock)
9. ‘Train of Fools’
10. ‘Someday Never Comes’ (Feat. Dawes)
11. ‘Who’ll Stop the Rain’ (Feat. Bob Seger)
12. ‘Hot Rod Heart’ (Feat. Brad Paisley)
13. ‘Have You Ever Seen the Rain’ (Feat. Alan Jackson)
14. ‘Proud Mary’ (Feat. Jennifer Hudson, Allen Toussaint and the Rebirth Brass Band)
 

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Good for John, I am tired of artists not having control over their creations...whether this battle was with his old band mates or contractual obligations with the record company I'm not sure.

I keep looking for a copy of "Cosmos Factory", there are a few old CCR albums being reissued in vinyl, but not that one which is my favorite.

Got the reissue CD of "Cosmos Factory" very good, I believe they were reissued as part of the 40th anniversary or something..
 

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Got the reissue CD of "Cosmos Factory" very good, I believe they were reissued as part of the 40th anniversary or something..

Yes I have that one Sweaty, but I want an MFSL vinyl edition...it was issued back in the 80's my brother had a copy but it's long gone now.
 

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Somewhere in my vinyl collection, I inherited my dad's original vinyl releases of Green River, Cosmos and Willy/Poor Boys from '69 and '70.
 

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^^You would have no problem finding a home for them Lynch, if they are in good playable condition.
 

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Oh yeah, they are all in great condition. All of my albums and the ones I got from my parents are all in pretty much mint condition. The only thing with any wear and tear is usually the plastic outside sleeve. Even many of those still look like they did 30-40 yrs ago. ;)
 

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