John Fogerty - Revival
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Free Music Review: Wow, real music!
Hit: 5 Stars
You won't find better honest rock and roll right now. Fogerty has a great sense of musical humor, too, quoting some of his old tunes both lyrically and musically. This is a terrific come back album. Get it!Free Music Review: Fogerty rocks again! One of his best. Tells it like it is. Great
Hit: 5 Stars
This disc rocks from start to finish, I particularly liked the one that puts Bush down, talking about not needing another "fortunate son". Fine songs, well crafted, with all of the "hooks" you'd expect from Fogerty. Worth the money. It is a fine complement to Long Road Home (which either needs a companion disc, with tracks from Eye Of The Zombie and some b sides, e.g., I
Confess, or to be made, one day, into a two disc set). I've got all the cds and have several of the CCR ones too. Another track for the "expanded" edition of Long Road home (one day) or a companion disc is Graveyard Train.
It's a helluva song. Buy Revival and Long Road Home (both versions). I plan to buy the live one next.
Free Music Review: John Fogerty - Revival
Hit: 4 Stars
The closest he's come to the sound of the Creedence classics. I've heard that he's reconciled with the old label that's held his songs up. It's about time. This album is great. A little more political than I would like but to get back to the old Creedence sound, the left wing politics doesn't bother me.Free Music Review: Revival-John Fogerty
Hit: 5 Stars
Excellent effort from Fogerty. This CD reminds me of Creedence and the good old days. Awesome!Free Music Review: Apollo's Creed.
Hit: 4 Stars
John Fogerty points his loaded six-string at contradictory American phenomena (Christian revivalism alongside war-mongering) and fires. He hits the target dead center.
Fogerty's "Revival" songs subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) show that many of America's religious don't truly admire the better attributes of the founder of Christianity but instead worship Apollo (the pagan war god) and Mammon (the diety of money and possessions). To better drive home the point Fogerty utilizes older images from his swamp-sounding music such as the Big Black Limousine and the Fortunate Son. All fortunate sons should realize they will take a big black limousine ride to the cemetery eventually. Best be prepared for it.
W. Bush's administration and its Iraq policy take full-throated drubbings in "Long Dark Night" and "I Can't Take It No More." Yet Fogerty dumps added criticism on rank-and-file Baby Boomers for accepting the violence- centered status quo and its accompanying shallowness --
"Lookin' out across this town
Kinda makes me wonder how
All the things that made us great
Got left so far behind.
This used to be a peaceful place
Decent folks hardworkin' ways
Now they hide behind locked doors
Afraid to speak their mind."
-- From "Gunslinger."
Fogerty looks back on his life and art in "Summer of Love" and "That Creedence Song," hoping to rescue the best aspects of the 1960s to launch a revival centered on caring, love, and open-mindedness. The fact that there hasn't been a Woodstock for the Iraq generation probably galls Fogerty. In "It Ain't Right" he criticizes his fellow musicians and celebrities for wasting the opportunity and their lives.
The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman also uses song juxtiposition ("Somebody Help Me" follows "I Can't Take It No More") to show the strain that globe-trotting militarism and other big-government programs put on personal relationships and social fabric. "Somebody Help Me" sounds like it was written by a soldier after receipt of a Dear John letter. Additionally, Fogerty mines the purely personal in "Broken Down Cowboy" and "River is Waiting."
I found myself seeing Fogerty's "Revival" playlist as sequential headlines for feelings and events a soul-searcher is likely to experience. Opener "Don't You Wish It Was True" contains hope for an after-life and better earthly relations among people. The artist comes full circle (identifying the barrier to his yearnings) in "Longshot," recognizing himself to be what most of us are -- lonely, walking masses full of contradictions --
"Well I ain't no sinner
An ain't no saint
I ain't no hypocrite babe
'Cept most everyday."