John Fogerty - Blue Moon Swamp
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Free Music Review: Fogerty's best solo album
Hit: 5 Stars
John Fogerty comes out hiding every couple of years and releases a new album. The Grammy winning "Blue Moon Swamp" is a delightful album full of great songs touching on blues, country, rock and gospel over the course of its 14 songs. 14 songs you ask?Yep. The album has been reissued with two solid tracks recorded during the original sessions. "Endless Sleep" and "Just Pickin'" aren't as essential as the other tracks on the album but they are a nice bonus for fans that may not have purchsed the album before or are replacing it.
The two bonus tracks clock in at less than 5 minutes. As I said if you have the previous edition they aren't essential. With the switch of Fogerty's solo stuff (all except his Fantasy releases)to Geffen Records the label thought it would be wise to reissue this album with bonus tracks to entice buyers again. The same original master created by Bob Ludwig is used so it doesn't really sound different.
Free Music Review: A wonderful, mature roots rock record
Hit: 5 Stars
If you already own "Blue Moon Swamp", don't bother buying it again because of the bonus tracks (or whatever they are). The melodramatic 1960s teenage-rocker "Endless Sleep" and the instrumental "Just Pickin'" are good enough, sure, but they don't really add anything to an album which was just about perfect to begin with.
"Blue Moon Swamp", John Fogerty's first album in almost 11 years, is a warm, exquisitely produced and richly evocative roots rock record, blending R&B, rockabilly, country, blues, folk, and swampy rock n' roll on twelve vibrant and masterfully executed songs.
Deservedly winning a Grammy for best rock album, "Blue Moon Swamp" is tight but laid-back, not as hard-rocking as Creedence and not as pop-oriented as "Centerfield", but better and more mature than anything else that John Fogerty has created as a solo artist.
This remains one of my favorite records, one which continues to grow on me.
Free Music Review: Country, rock, and blues at its best!
Hit: 5 Stars
I only gave it 5 stars because I can't go any higher. I'm not the kind of guy who just hands out 5 star ratings.
But this album is the best I own and I have about 80 or 90. I have never heard rock and roll, country, and delta blues fused so well.
"Southern Streamline" was a song I heard on CMT years ago and totally fell in love with it. But at the time I didn't realize it was John Fogerty. So later, I heard a few of the songs on Premonition and decided to pick BMS up.
My favorites are "Jelly Roll" "110 in the Shade" "Blue Moon Nights" (which was featured in "The Rookie") and "Blueboy."
No wonder this album won a Grammy for Best Rock Album. As far as I'm concerned it's an album for all time. Great job by John Fogerty and everyone associated with it.
A complaint? OK, here's one. I drive so fast when playing this music, I have to watch out for police cars!
Free Music Review: John Fogerty's Second Comeback Is Just As Good As His First
Hit: 5 Stars
BLUE MOON SWAMP, John Fogerty's second comeback, is just as good as his first, CENTERFIELD. Here, unlike on Centerfield, where he played all of the instruments, he uses a full band on every song, and the result is a great, rocking CD that sounds totally alive, like you're in the room with the musicians. The songs' lyrics often evoke the spirit of 50s rock & roll, as doers some of the music. Fogerty's advocacies of sanctions against countries which convict foreign tourists for trumped-up crimes, increased funding for law enforcement, and high-school community-service requirements make this CD an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.Free Music Review: If you Like CCR you'll dig this
Hit: 5 Stars
I keep coming back to this record, and it always does the trick.
It's got all the things I love about CCR, the Country, the Rock a Billy,
and the Rock & Roll that Fogerty brought to us in his great 60's work.
Sort of a comeback record at the time, his last disc was probably 10 years earlier, but the fire was still burning, and I'm sure glad he keeps fanning the flames.
A great American songwriter, and gifted multi-instrumentalist, deeply rooted in the traditional, but with enough Rock and Roll, rebel spirit
to please those who may not own a pair of Cowboy boots.