The music of John Fogerty has always lent itself to
a live setting. Just ask the uncounted bar bands who, for years, have
kept the patrons placated with open-ended renditions of "Proud Mary"
or "Born On The Bayou," "Green River" or "Bad
Moon Rising." Here, obviously, is music meant to be heard up-close
and in-person.
It's all the more ironic, then, that the man who has made some of the
most spontaneously celebratory sounds the world has ever known should
himself have been woefully underrepresented in the live recording arena.
For fans of authentic American rock 'n' roll, passionately and persuasively
performed, it seems that the legend of John Fogerty's electrifying stage
presence would remain just that – a you-shoulda-been-there tall
tale told by veteran fans.
John Fogerty delivers the timeless essence of his music. A genuine showman,
an entertainer dedicated to the proposition that every audience deserves
his very best, John Fogerty on stage is a sight to behold and a sound
to savor.
Fogerty undertook an extraordinary personal and creative odyssey following
the release of his two solo comeback albums: 1985's "Centerfield"
and 1986's "Eye Of The Zombie." It was a search that brought
him both to a nurturing and supportive family environment with his marriage
to wife Julie and to a musical rebirth as he explored the back roads and
by-ways of the American South in search of his musical roots. The results
of that journey are brilliantly chronicled on "Blue Moon Swamp,"
his 1997 release and first new record of original material in more than
ten years. Hailed as a true original's triumphant return to form, "Blue
Moon Swamp" would eventually go on to garner the artist his first-ever
Grammy for Best Rock Album of the year.
Fogerty's Blue Moon Swamp tour, which took him and his crack backing band
across America and Europe, was universally hailed as the concert event
of the season. "John Fogerty must have struck a deal with the devil,"
wrote Jim Farber in Now Entertainment. "Nothing else explains the
supernatural perfection of his show." Wrote David Hinckley in the
Daily News, "John Fogerty, in top voice, with a wonderful new band
and a newfound depth to his guitar work, couldn't do a bad show any more
than Michael Jordan could play a bad basketball game." "By the
end of the evening," asserted Robert Hilburn in the Los Angeles Times,
"John Fogerty had proven that he remains one of the treasures in
rock."
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