John Fogerty - Long Road Home: Ult Fogerty Creedence Collection
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Free Music Notes for Long Road Home: Ult Fogerty Creedence Collection
Free Music Review: Classic Gold
Hit: 4 Stars
I have always enjoyed the music of CCR and this album is also of interest to me as I get to hear John's solo music, most notable is hearing him sing his song "Rockin' All Over The World", which was a big hit in Great Britain via a cover version by The Status Quo.
Most of CCR's top tunes are hear, although it must be noted this collection dosent contain "Suzie Q" (their first chart hit), "Midnight Special", nor their fantastic version of "Cotton Fields", all of which are greatly missed, but these are minor complaints (the inclusion of these songs would, however, have caused me to rate it at 5 stars).
Some people here are asking why mix Johns solo stuff with CCR. Great publicity perhaps? After all, I doubt as many of us would have been as interested in this set without the CCR material, good as his solo cuts can be.
This is a better by than Chronicle, the original CCR hits cd, and far more reasonable in price than all the other CCR hits CDs. It's also far superior to the "Re-Collection" issued by Credence Revised not long ago.
Free Music Review: A Completely Unnecessary Compilation, But a Great Listen
Hit: 4 Stars
There has been no shortage of CCR compilations. Chronicle is near perfect, and Chronicle II is an excellent complement. On the other hand, The Long Road Home is the first compilation of John Fogerty's thirty-something year solo career. But seven songs, from seven albums fails to show that Fogerty really has had something to say over the past three decades. The Long Road Home is an abysmal summary of a great solo career. MIA are "Hearts of Stone", "Travelin' High", "Flying Away", "Rock and Roll Girls" (essential), "Big Train (From Memphis)", "Eye of the Zombie", "Change in the Weather", "Swamp River Days" (essential), "Blueboy", "Joy of My Life", "Bad Bad Boy", "Premonition" (essential), and "Honey Do". Add these thirteen songs to the seven solo songs on the album to make a fine solo retrospective. But Chronicle does a much better job of summarizing Fogerty's CCR career than the Long Road Home, and Premonition does a much better job of summarizing his solo career. Having said that, this album is a great listen, just a completely unnecessary one. Put Me In, Coach!Free Music Review: Great disc, but should've been a double...
Hit: 4 Stars
Okay, so all of the music on this disc is great. It collects a bunch of the most popular of Fogerty's songs whether they be from his solo career or time with CCR. Sadly, however, it leaves off a LOT of fantastic stuff from both eras. I'm not going to complain about six of the songs being live tracks, they're all great performances so there's nothing wrong with that for me, but I just feel that when you call something "Ultimate" you should make the an attempt to really pull that off. Perhaps they were looking to release a vol. 2 at some point like they did with the CCR 'Chronicle' hits collections? I don't know. I just think that since Fogerty's had a long solo career full of great music, they really should've added a second CD with more of that and some of the leftover CCR classics.
Bottom line: If you're a casual fan and just want to be able to listen to "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" "Born on the Bayou" and "Centerfield" without changing CDs, you won't be disappointed by this. It's not the best they could've done, though.
Free Music Review: Simplistic
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a gem I didn't know had been released over a year ago. CCR had very simple music (no big bands), understandable lyrics and a comedic twist that in some ways was ahead of it's time. Most lyrics were written by John Fogerty and though the band only lasted about 5 years, John went on to become a very very good single artist (Old Man Down The Road, etc). Here we have some of CCR's greatest hits (some fans will be disappointed with some that were not included), some from John's single forays and some that are live. I don't care for live albums much but these are well recorded. Great liner notes are included which will give you a capsule view of John and the bands career. Chronicle volume 1 by CCR would be a great companion with this one.Free Music Review: The best of both worlds.
Hit: 4 Stars
Some may just want to stick to the CCR "Chronicles" collection, but "The Long Road Home" is quite tempting. This disc of course includes the biggest hits from Creedence Clearwater Revival, as well as John Fogerty's better solo songs. Obviously there's not a huge difference between the two eras, so this collection plays through quite well even though it's not in chronological order. Personally, I'd rather have one of a few missing songs here than two versions of "Fortunate Son", but this is still a packed cd. Overall it's hard to complain when we get "Down On The Corner" and "Green River" on the same disc as "Centerfield" and "Deja Vu (all over again)". This is a must if you have nothing of theirs/his yet.