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He’s finally back with new material and the fans will love it. John Fogerty combines his individual style with the hard-hitting guitar sounds from his Creedence Clearwater Revival days. The end result is a little folk-rock hitting up with honky-tonk, then graduating to good old-fashion rock. The CD starts out slowly with “Don’t You Wish It Was True,” the promoted single from the album. Its simple guitar lines and trite lyrics make it my least favorite from the CD. But hang in there; it definitely picks up.
Yes, there’s plenty of social and political commentary. Fogerty bashes the Bush Administration with clever lyrics along with his CCR swamp rock style in “Long Dark Night.” He furiously continues with velocity in the swift anti-war song “I Can’t Take it No More.” Today’s young celebrities aren’t safe either with their excessive drug use and party lifestyle in “It Ain’t Right.” It’s not all serious though. My favorite cut, “Summer of Love” will take you back to the summer of ’69 with guitar lines from Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” and “White Room.” His similar sturdy blues-rock guitar takes over in “Somebody Help Me.”
Though I was an enthusiastic CCR fan back in the day, admittedly, I haven’t been much on John Fogerty as a solo artist. However, this album has changed my mind. He and his band bring us fun and exciting music and he still proves to be a formidable songwriter, guitarist and vocalist. Even if you’re sick of societal commentary, there’s enough of the other stuff. In fact, the chorus of the third cut on the CD says it all: “Hey you can’t go wrong if you play a little bit of that Creedence song.”
