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John Fogerty's 'Revival' due this fall
John Fogerty returns this fall with "Revival," the singer's first work in 35 years for Fantasy Records, a label he famously warred with for more than 30 years.
"It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center," he said in a press statement. "I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been."
Fogerty worked on the new album in a Los Angeles recording studio earlier this year, recruiting his veteran band--Kenny Aronoff on drums, Hunter Perrin on guitar, David Santos on bass and guest Benmont Tench on keyboards--to lay down the basic tracks in just 12 days, according to his publicist.
"A lot of times on prior albums, there are those moments where you're in the studio or rehearsing and you're going through this agony, you're very unsettled or anxious because you're not completely sure it's going to work," Fogerty said. "Even in rehearsal this time, I knew it was all going to work."
Fogerty, who waged a public, decades-long battle with Fantasy following the 1972 breakup of Creedence Clearwater Revival over the rights to his own songs, reconciled with the company--which was sold to Concord Records-- in 2005 for a career retrospective, "The Long Road Home."
The singer, who said in the statement that seeing the Fantasy logo on his new album is "surreal," is currently finishing up a summer outing, with the final date of the trek set for tonight (8/2) in Vancouver.
