Track Listing

1. Don't You Wish It Was True
2. Gunslinger
3. Creedence Song
4. Broken Down Cowboy
5. River Is Waiting
6. Long Dark Night
7. Summer Of Love
8. Natural Thing
9. It Ain't Right
10. I Can't Take It No More
11. Somebody Help Me
12. Longshot

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #437 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-02
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
The self-referential title of Fogerty's first album in three years is no mere play on words; this is as close as he's gotten in a long while to duplicating the loose swamp blues, country, folk, soul and rock that he so memorably created a template for in Creedence Clearwater Revival. Thankfully the advertisement for downloaded ringtones in the disc's booklet is the only contemporary influence creeping into this stripped-down set of rootsy rockers and ballads. Fogerty's voice sounds great throughout; passionate, more committed and comfortable with these songs than he has seemed in years. His material has often leaned towards politics, especially as it concerns the working class, but seldom as directly as on the gutsy choogle of "Long Dark Night" and the rollicking "I Can't Take it No More." He seems like a cranky dad on "It Ain't Right," railing about spoiled pop tarts in the spotlight, and "Summer of Love"'s look back at the titular time in the late '60s falls on the schlock side. But Fogerty charges into "Longshot" like the angry young man of "Fortunate Son," singing "I ain't got no 'ristocrats a-hangin' in my tree" with an assurance and intensity that reaches through the speakers and grabs the listener. Just like in the old days. --Hal Horowitz

Amazon.com
John's new album is a triumph, with a sound that is at once timeless yet urgently rooted in this time and place. The lyrics recall a continuous conversation with America, a reminder of John's unmatched ability to resonate with people from all walks of life. With a voice that can cut glass and inspire generations, and a band that sounds like it came to tear the roadhouse down, 'Revival' is not just a great John Fogerty album -- and a great rock album -- it's an essential musical work by an artist without peer, that will certainly stand as one of the most compelling albums of 2007.

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Album Description
John Fogerty reclaims his rightful place among America's most iconic and revered artists with Revivial; 12 all-new songs that incorporate the best elements of an artist that deeply resonates with generations of music fans and thousands of other artists he has influenced throughout the years.

Customer Reviews

Fogerty's Back
Hard to believe, but John Fogerty is his old self again. He's shelved his acrimonious differences with former bandmates and record labels and gotten back to what he does best - writing great heartland rock songs. Fogerty hasn't sounded this enlivened since his Creedence heyday. I thought his "Centerfield" album was good, but this is even way better.

For a famous roots rocker, he draws inspiration from some interesting sources. "Summer Of Love" sounds like a hybrid pastiche of Cream's "White Room", Hendrix's "Foxy Lady", and the Doors' "Hello, I Love You". "Somebody Help Me" also seems influenced by these same artists. With its laundry-list lyrics of Bush administration failures, "Long Dark Night" is a nod to Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". "I Can't Take It No More" is another anti-Bush diatribe that clocks in at just over a minute and a half, and reminds me of "Judy Is A Punk" by the Ramones. Is it possible Fogerty's been listening to them? Equally unlikely, the album closer "Longshot" borrows the riff from Deep Purple's "Woman From Tokyo".

Whatever it is he's doing or listening to - it's working for him. This is a masterful return to form, and one of the best rock albums of recent years.

Why do hippies still get to make music?
Yeah, I'll concede the fact that John Fogerty has a raspy voice that makes for good rock 'n' roll. Trouble is, John's vocals, vibe and sound is tailor made for the 1970s -- and it's already 2008!!!!! Hey, I've got nothing against hippies per se, but when they start invading the territory of young up 'n' coming artists like Lindsay Lohan, Foo Fighter and Sum 41, that's when I have a problem. This hippie had his heyday with Neil Young and the like years and years ago -- let others join in on the "peace pipe fun, man!" (Insert hippie drawl toward the end of that last sentence.)

Hey, like I said, hippies aren't bad people. It's just that Iron Maiden, Saxon, Oasis and Def Leppard are much cooler. "Broken Down Cowboy," indeed.

P.S. What's the story on Van Halen? Are they still touring or what??? E-mail me with the results, please.

I Dreamed John Fogerty Found the Fountain of Youth...
...then I woke up, bought "Revival" and discovered my dream had come true. Did you see the video of "Don't you Wish it Was True"? where he's got a whole shirt made from Snoop's blue Crips' bandana, can you believe it? I know, I jest. Man, this is his best since the "John Fogerty" album (you know, the one with "Almost Saturday Night"). I judge 4 of the first 5 songs on this CD as excellent; I particularly find revelatory, cut #5, "River is Waiting" which lets us know (maybe?) that John's been listening to the Subdudes Staxy-organy/gospilly--John Fogerty-esque sound? or not. Either way, sounds GREAT.! Did you know this guy can REALLY sing? Of course you did. IF the latter half of the CD has more ordinary chooglin/blues-based material, remember it was John who showed us how one could breath new life into that genre with killer, interesting or topical lyrics ("It Came out of the Sky" anyone?), and in this regard as well, this CD does not disappoint, "Brownie's in the Out house, Katrina on the line, gulf is a disaster, but Georgie says it's fine, Rummie's in the kitchen, messin' with the pans, Dickie's in the back stealin' everything he can...be a long dark night before this thing is done..."

"It Ain't Right" (Such a Waste of Life) is similarly great, and MIGHT be self-criticism concerning as it does the rock-star's life, rehab and whatnot...doesn't matter, either way it's a killer rocker, as is the next song, "I Can't take it no More,": "you know you lied about the casualties, you know you lied about the WMDs, you know you lied about the detainees, all over the world, Stop talkin' bout stayin the course, you keep a beatin that old dead horse, you know you lied about how we went to war, I can't take it no more...sick and tired of your dirty little war, I can't take it no more..." If like me you really appreciate good lyrics--so naturally, have been buying more hip-hop CD's than rock during the past 20 years or so, you can't help but be moved by the couplet John uses in "Somebody Help Me": "Somebody Help me, there's somethin' goin' wrong, somebody help me, I can't do this alone..." Do what alone? Save rock and roll, save the country, or save the world?

For God's sake: help the man out, people!!



A show of credentials: on childhood family vacation to Memphis, we got aboard a multi-story paddle boat, and there was a juke box. Could there be? I mean, there MUST have been a CCR song on there, to hear his voice as we chugged along the Mississippi, right? Well, no "Proud Mary," but they DID have their most recent hit, "Sweet Hitchhiker" and yes, it sounded great. Later, when I moved to the Bay Area from Texas in 1981, I chose El Cerrito to live, because that's where I read John and CCR were from. I think I got it off the back of a Golliwogs album...Now, where is that Duckee Market from "Poor Boys"...? Is THAT it? etc.