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His first band may never have existed at the beginning of Fogerty's career as John was nearly drafted into the United States Military in 1966, but instead joined an Army Reserve unit. He served at Fort Bragg, Fort Knox, and Fort Lee before being discharged from the Army in July 1967. In the same year, the band changed its name to Creedence Clearwater Revival and John took his brother's place as lead singer for the band.
They enjoyed success as a band following the release of their self titled debut in 1968 which featured their first hit single 'Susie Q'. The following releases all charted within the top 20 of the US Billboard album charts with the 1969 'Green Water' topping the chart, it is now certified three times platinum selling. CCR hold the record for having five number two singles on the US Billboard charts but never achieving a number one, this includes songs such as 'Proud Mary' and 'Bad Moon Rising'.
After the demise of CCR Fogerty began a solo career, originally under the name The Blue Ridge Rangers for his 1973 LP debut. He began with quite a country & western sound before moving towards more traditional rock & roll on early singles such as 'Comin' Down The Road'. With his first album releases he struggled to match the success he had achieved with CCR, however his first comeback album 'Centerfield' which was released through Warner Bros managed to top the US charts once again. After this his albums' chartings progressively declined before the 2013 LP 'Wrote A Song For Everyone' managed to reappear in the top 5. Fogerty is currently listed on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists at number 40 and the list of 100 Greatest Singers at number 72.
I was really thrilled to get to see John Fogerty. I was a huge Creedence Clearwater Revival fan growing up and know a lot of their songs by heart. I also can play many of them on the guitar. This show was in a small place and it was very quaint. He had a very small band and most of what he played was acoustic. The band was great but he was clearly the highlight.
He also did some of his famous solo tunes that were such big hits in the 1980’s. He did the song “Center Field” which took me back to my childhood and watching the video for that song that had all of the baseball bloopers in it. The show was not that long but it was very good.
The great thing was that he did not shy away from the CCR songs, like "Bad Moon Rising" and "Fortunate Son" that most people wanted to hear. He brought the house down with those famous songs. His voice is still as great as was when he was much younger. He also had such good energy and the audience did as well. It was really just a fun experience and one that I would strongly recommend to anyone. I also would advise any old CCR fans to attend this.
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