John Fogerty - PBS Soundstage, Chicago, IL, 11-29-2007

This is one of the best John Fogerty bootlegs out there, in terms of set list, performance, and sound quality. He's put out a few live albums over the course of his long solo career, but I like this better than any of those. One advantage is that it's simply longer, at an hour and 45 minutes.

In 2007, Fogerty released the studio album "Revival." Personally, I think this is one of his best of his entire career, containing a handful of great songs right up there with his Creedence Clearwater Revival and "Centerfield" material. Unfortunately, it didn't get the exposure or sales it deserved, so those are would-be classics instead of classics. Also unfortunately, this has been the last material of all new songs from him. So this is the ideal time to hear a concert from him. He already was 62 years old at this time, and his voice has inevitably declined since then (though he can still belt it out as I write this in 2022). 

This concert has excellent song selection. It contains no less than nine of the 12 songs from his "Revival" album, all deserving of inclusion, plus the best song from his previous album, "Deja Vu All Over Again," another would-be classic. The concert is so long that he was able to dig deeper into his  Creedence Clearwater Revival songbook with the lesser known likes of "Ramble Tamble" and "Bootleg," plus the best of his solo years hits. The sound quality is also excellent. This show was professionally recorded for a PBS TV broadcast.

However, there was one problem with the sound quality. Five of the songs had a gap of missing music. In each case it was very brief, from a second or two up to a few seconds at most. But still, it was noticeable and annoying. So I carefully used my editing skills to fix those gaps. Luckily, they were all in fixable spots, for instance during choruses or other repeated sections where I could patch in bits from other parts of the songs. Those five songs are the ones with "[Edit]" in their titles. It's possible I missed some gaps, so if you hear any, please let me know and I'll fix those too.

01 Good Golly Miss Molly (John Fogerty)
02 talk (John Fogerty)
03 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
04 Longshot (John Fogerty)
05 Born on the Bayou (John Fogerty)
06 Ramble Tamble (John Fogerty)
07 Commotion (John Fogerty)
08 Midnight Special [Edit] (John Fogerty)
09 Summer of Love (John Fogerty)
10 Deja Vu [All Over Again] (John Fogerty)
11 talk (John Fogerty)
12 Don't You Wish It Was True [Edit] (John Fogerty)
13 talk (John Fogerty)
14 Have You Ever Seen the Rain (John Fogerty)
15 Long Dark Night (John Fogerty)
16 I Can't Take It No More (John Fogerty)
17 Travelin' Band (John Fogerty)
18 talk (John Fogerty)
19 Proud Mary [Edit] (John Fogerty)
20 Lookin' Out My Back Door (John Fogerty)
21 talk (John Fogerty)
22 Gunslinger (John Fogerty)
23 talk (John Fogerty)
24 Green River [Edit] (John Fogerty)
25 River Is Waiting (John Fogerty)
26 Bootleg (John Fogerty)
27 talk (John Fogerty)
28 Who'll Stop the Rain (John Fogerty)
29 talk (John Fogerty)
30 Creedence Song (John Fogerty)
31 Keep On Chooglin' (John Fogerty)
32 talk (John Fogerty)
33 Broken Down Cowboy (John Fogerty)
34 Down on the Corner (John Fogerty)
35 Centerfield (John Fogerty)
36 Up Around the Bend (John Fogerty)
37 The Old Man Down the Road [Edit] (John Fogerty)
38 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty)

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The cover photo comes from a 2007 concert.