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John Fogerty is planning to revisit his catalogue as part of a new record deal--and the first of his albums to be reissued is coming in November.
The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman has signed with BMG for not only the distribution of much of his solo catalogue, but a new album due next year. The agreement will cover five albums: 1985's chart-topping Centerfield, the next year's follow-up Eye of the Zombie, 1997's Blue Moon Swamp, the live Premonition (1998) and Deja Vu (All Over Again) (2004), which saw Fogerty leave Warner Bros. Records for the nascent DreamWorks label. An as-yet unannounced compilation is also being planned. Fogerty's last album was Wrote a Song for Everyone (2013), which found him re-recording some of his best-known CCR material with special guest stars.
For its 20th anniversary, Blue Moon Swamp will be reissued on November 17, featuring two non-LP bonus tracks from a 2004 reissue on Geffen and a new cover, based on the backdrop Fogerty used on the ensuing tour. In addition to CD and digital offerings, the album (and bonus tracks) will make their vinyl debut, with black and limited blue LP offerings planned.
The five-years-in-the-making Blue Moon Swamp won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album and was praised by Rolling Stone, who called the track "A Hundred and Ten In the Shade" "the single best song Fogerty has offered since CCR fell apart."
The album can be pre-ordered from Amazon U.S. today.
Blue Moon Swamp: 20th Anniversary Edition (BMG, 2017)
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- Southern Streamline
- Hot Rod Heart
- Blue Boy
- A Hundred and Ten In the Shade
- Rattlesnake Highway
- Bring It Down to Jelly Roll
- Walking In a Hurricane
- Swamp River Days
- Rambunctious Boy
- Joy of My Life
- Blue Moon Nights
- Bad Bad Boy
- Just Pickin'
- Endless Sleep
Tracks 1-12 released as Warner Bros. Records 45426, 1997
Tracks 13-14 from "Walking In a Hurricane" CD single - Warner Music Australia 9362438892, 1998. Included on expanded edition of the album - Geffen B0003278-02, 2004
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Would be nice for his 1975 self titled album to be included in this re-issue program.
I agree. Another hard to find item that I don't have yet.
Seriously. The best of the lot IMO.
I was just going to post that. Fantastic album, sadly out of print. Criminal that you can't get officially get the studio versions of either "Almost Saturday Night" or "Rockin' All Over the World." The rest of the album is great too. "The Wall" is awesome!
Blue Moon Swamp is a gem as well. Too bad this reissue is just the same (Musically) as the previous reissue. A must-have album, for anyone who doesn't have it already.
Really though, unless the 1975 s/t album is being reissued, this is pretty much non-news.
Blue Moon Swamp was excellent but I am not sure I want to re-buy it for those two songs. Eye of the Zombie has been discredited by Fogerty in the past so I am glad he is including it in the reissues. I don't have it and I have never been able to find it at used CD shops.
What about "The Blue Ridge Rangers" (1973)? I still think he should have included "John Fogerty" (1975) in the reissue catalog.
No mention either of the officially unissued "Hoodoo" LP from 1976. Only a 45 "You got the magic" (if Iremember the title correctly) was released. It took me years to get the LP on vinyl and CD. ""Blue Ridge Rangers" was hard to get at the time too.
I’d be curious to hear Hoodoo, but weren’t the masters destroyed? At least, I’d been led to believe that. I know it circulates as a (lousy sounding) bootleg, but I don’t know that we’ll ever hear it in good quality.
Evil Thing/You Got the Magic was the 45 on Asylum that was released - not sure which was the A side. I remember hearing "Evil Thing" on the radio. Two other rare Fogerty singles on Fantasy are Comin' Down the Road/Ricochet (as John Fogerty) and Back in the Hills/You Don't Owe Me (as Blue Ridge Rangers). I don't think any of those made it to CD either.