John Fogerty - Home Concerts, Redding, CA, 3-23-2020 to 7-24-2020

Before I get to John Fogerty, I have to mention that yesterday Bob Dylan and Neil Young both released five-star albums. Dylan's album, "Rough and Rowdy Ways," is his first album of original album in eight years. Young's album, "Homegrown," was recorded in 1975 but not released until now. If you're into the kind of music I post at this blog, at you must be to be reading this, I highly recommend you give them a listen.

Now, back to Fogerty. When the coronavirus pandemic lockdown began in mid-March 2020, it wasn't long before he started playing acoustic songs and posting them at his YouTube page, or playing them on TV shows. I'd been keeping an eye on that and slowly collecting them. But he typically only did one or two songs a week, with some of them repeats. Eventually, he had enough for a long album, presented here. Then he stopped in July 2020.

Fogerty has three children, who are in their late teens or early twenties. All of them are following in his footsteps of playing music and singing. Two of them were already playing in his concert band prior to the pandemic. During the lockdown, he did a lot of his songs with them joining in, usually on backing vocals, extra guitars, and bass. The songs included here are a mix of him playing totally solo and with his family backing band. To be honest, there isn't that much difference since it's generally an acoustic, drum-free sound. However, on some of the songs you'll notice him playing electric guitar rather than an acoustic one.

The vast majority of the songs are versions of his Creedence Clearwater Revival hits, with only three solo hit ("Centerfield," "Hot Rod Heart," and "Don't You Wish It Was True"). However, the songs are in chronological order of when he played them. Two of them are covers of famous songs: "City of New Orleans" and "Lean on Me."

The sound quality is generally excellent, but variable. Most of the songs were recorded in a studio or studio-like setting, but a few were recorded outside and weren't miked up as well. There was one song, "Lodi," that was recorded so badly that I didn't even include it as a bonus track. I'm hopeful he'll get around to doing that one again. A couple others like "Who'll Stop the Rain" are a bit rough, but still acceptable. I've also included a fair amount of talking to introduce the songs, including a long story about his experience at the famous 1969 Woodstock music festival.

UPDATE: On October 23, 2022, I updated the mp3 download file. I had hoped he would keep going and come up with enough for a second album. But he stopped. So I took the three songs I hadn't put on this already and added them to the end. I had to slightly alter the album cover to change one of the dates at the bottom.

01 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
02 Lookin' Out My Back Door (John Fogerty)
03 Centerfield (John Fogerty)
04 talk (John Fogerty)
05 Down on the Corner (John Fogerty)
06 talk (John Fogerty)
07 Long as I Can See the Light (John Fogerty)
08 talk (John Fogerty)
09 Proud Mary (John Fogerty)
10 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty)
11 talk (John Fogerty)
12 Who'll Stop the Rain (John Fogerty)
13 talk (John Fogerty)
14 Green River (John Fogerty)
15 talk (John Fogerty)
16 Up Around the Bend (John Fogerty)
17 Have You Ever Seen the Rain (John Fogerty)
18 talk (John Fogerty)
19 City of New Orleans (John Fogerty)
20 talk (John Fogerty)
21 Lean on Me (John Fogerty)
22 Blue Moon Nights (John Fogerty)
23 Don’t You Wish It Was True (John Fogerty)
24 Hot Rod Heart (John Fogerty)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15218801/JohnFoge_2020_HomeConcrtsRddingCA__3-23-2020_to_7-24-2020_atse.zip.html

I took the cover art photo from Fogerty's Instagram account. Instead of a photo of just him, I figured it was fitting to include his three musical children as well.