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Long Road Home: Ult Fogerty Creedence Collection
John Fogerty
Long Road Home: Ult Fogerty Creedence Collection
Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
 
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This comprehensive retrospective features, for the first time ever, all of the songwriter's most poignant and enduring hits. Included are seminal tracks from the Creedence catalog, along with the crème de la crèm...  more »

     
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All Artists: John Fogerty
Title: Long Road Home: Ult Fogerty Creedence Collection
Members Wishing: 7
Total Copies: 0
Label: Fantasy
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 11/1/2005
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
Style: Roots Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 025218968928, 025218969024, 602498467183

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This comprehensive retrospective features, for the first time ever, all of the songwriter's most poignant and enduring hits. Included are seminal tracks from the Creedence catalog, along with the crème de la crème of his solo work, including "Centerfield," "Déjà Vu (All Over Again)," and "Hot Rod Heart" from the GRAMMY(R) Award-winning CD Blue Moon Swamp. Also on the disc are four new tracks recorded live by Fogerty during his 2005 tour of the United States: "Hey Tonight," "Bootleg," "Keep on Chooglin'," and a blistering rendition of "Fortunate Son."

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Doug S. (Dstelt) from WISC RAPIDS, WI
Reviewed on 3/27/2010...
From top to bottom this is a cd you have to have. Never get tired of listening to ccr

CD Reviews

Fogerty Through The Years
Thomas Magnum | NJ, USA | 11/01/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Long Road Home is subtitled the ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection. While it is tough to make an appellation like that because someone's favorite tracks are always left out, this twenty-five song collection comes pretty darn close. Spanning Mr. Fogerty's almost forty year career the collection include his beloved CCR hits like "Proud Mary", "Born On The Bayou", "Green River", "Who'll Stop The Rain", "Down On The Corner" and two versions of "Fortunate Son" to his solo works like "Centerfield", "Old Man Down The Road", live versions of "Rockin' All Over The World" and "Almost Saturday Night" to the title track from last year's Deja Vu (All Over Again). The only complaint is that the collection relies heavily on his CCR work and that two of his solo albums, the overlooked Eye Of The Zombie and Blue Ridge Rangers are not represented at all and the two tracks from his self-titled 1975 album are recent live version not the original versions from the out of print album. Those are minor complaints about a truly first rate release that shows the greatness of one the best songwriters in rock history and a major influence on countless artists."
Great single disc collection of CCR/Fogerty classics
Wayne Klein | My Little Blue Window, USA | 11/11/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Although it's missing a few important tracks, "The Long Road Home" is a great single disc collection of JF's solo hits and CCR classics. Fogerty returned to work with Fantasy after the original owner Saul Zaentz (Fogerty felt that Zaentz cheated the band out of the royalities they deserved and was generally less than honest with them)sold the company. Interestingly, the live tracks concentrate on his CCR material for the most part ("Almost Saturday Night" was originally recorded for Fogerty's second solo album "John Fogerty" aka "Old Shep").



Regardless, there's a consistency to Fogerty's songwriting throughout his career and a return to the same themes much as Springsteen or Lennon returned to similar themes throughout their career. Sonically these have never sounded better on CD. I am disappointed that some of the singles that Fogerty recorded for Fantasy in an effort to fulfill his contract and tracks from the MIA third Fogerty solo album aren't included here as well (the third solo album original mastertapes were destroyed at Fogerty's direction but some solid sounding bootlegs have been floating around for years). That would make this a definite must buy for fans who have most of his material. Heck, even if they were offered in a limited edition two CD set fans would eat this up.



Nevertheless, if you're looking for a one-stop shop grab bag of great CCR titles, Fogerty solo songs and live tracks this is the CD to purchase. The tracks aren't arranged chronologically--which actually works pretty well and makes some of the more familiar material sound fresh again.



Like The Beatles' "1" this is far from comprehensive but has some of Fogerty's most important songs from throughout his career. You can argue about which tracks are missing (I've always loved "It Came Out of the Sky" with its biting satiric story of a farmer who makes a bundle off a crashed UFO but it wasn't a hit so probably doesn't qualify for inclusion) but it's hard to argue with the quality of the man's songwriting. Highly recommended."