Last October, Fogerty released the Grammy-nominated album "Revival," marking his first set of new material for Fantasy Records in 35 years. The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman fought with the label for more than 30 years over the rights to his own songs. The company was sold to Concord Records in recent years, paving the way for a reconciliation, which was followed by the 2005 release of Fogerty's first complete career retrospective, "The Long Road Home."
In a Newsweek column published late last year, the rock veteran talked about moving beyond the bitterness that kept him from playing for so long.
"Over the years, I had been sued for allegedly writing songs as a solo artist that sounded too much like the music I'd written for Creedence--for plagiarizing myself, as it's been described," Fogerty explained. "I successfully defended myself in those suits. But whenever I'd sit down to write a song and it got anywhere near to sounding like Creedence, a little gremlin would pop up on my shoulder in the form of a lawyer saying, 'Don't do that.' One day I said to the gremlin, 'Get out of my life. I own this. I sound like this. I'm embracing this.' I finally was able to put that to rest and become comfortable again with my sound."
On tour, Fogerty's repertoire includes his solo and CCR hits, along with tracks from "Revival," several of which are streaming at his MySpace page.