John Fogerty - The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Fogerty/Creedence Collection

Awesome

This CD set has a great collection of songs and will be enjoyed by CCR fans and people who just like good music. Even if you don't think you like CCR and John Fogerty, you'll like some of the songs in this set. September 3, 2008

Good collection, but............................

Well, you can't go wrong with Creedence/Fogerty material, can you?
This set is nice and adequate but hardly an ultimate collection.
Why not make it a 2 CD set and add some pre-Creedence tracks that have John's vocals? Also, the addition of the 1973 single "Back To The Hills" and 1974's "Coming Down The Road" would have been a nice gesture.
Legend says that Mr. Fogerty had the tapes of the los "Hoodoo" album destroyed, but the same has been said from The Beach Boys Smile session tapes, which all were digitalized in order to record the Smile we all know. Even if the "Hoodoo" tapes had been destroyed, why not re-record two or three of the best songs that were intended for that album?
For the new fans "The Long Road Home" is a good start of a collection. For most of the Creedence/Fogerty fans this must feel like a missed opportunity.
August 29, 2008

IT SKIPS

SORRY, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST PRODUCT PURCHASES FROM AMAZON THAT IS DEFECTIVE. IT SKIPS, NEED I SAY MORE. OF COURSE I DID NOT REALIZE IT UNTIL I OPENED IT AND PUT IT ON MY IPOD. June 5, 2008

Nice Remastring Job

Probably no mainstream artist for the last 30+ years has been screwed over by the music business more than John Fogerty. Now that the mess with Fantasy Records is behind him, he cooperated on the release of his first comprehensive retrospective of his career. A couple of things are worthy of note. First, the remastering of the CCR tunes on this release is excellent and surpasses the 2000 remasters of the CCR catalogue. Second, besides his work with Creedence Clearwater Revival, there wasn't a whole lot of material to choose from. I was glad that the 1985 "comeback" album 'Centerfield' was represented by two cuts, though I might have suggested the addition of "Rock and Roll Girl" which was issued as a single. And others have mentioned that "Almost Saturday Night" included here is not the version from the 1975 'John Fogerty' album, which would have been the recommended choice. My choice for biggest oversight, however, is "Jambalaya (On The Bayou)" from the often-overlooked 1973 'Blue Ridge Rangers' LP which was also released as a single. This is a rare gem that sounds very much like a CCR song. While I liked the selection of the CCR songs here for the most part, I would have disposed of some like the overplayed "Travelin' Band" in favor of "Jambalaya" and would dump the mediocre live version of "Hey Tonight" included here for the CCR studio version or another song such as "Don't Look Now"; "Wrote A Song For Everyone"; or "Someday Never Comes." May 9, 2008

Good Music, Yes. "Ultimate?" Hardly.

With so much music over such a long time span, why only a single disc? John Fogerty/CCR could have easily fleshed out two or even three CD's of material, so "The Long Road Home" feels more like a short path to nowhere.

First, the positives: For the first time, John has allowed his Creedence material to exist on a record next to his solo work. The remastered CCR songs sound terrific. There's a consistency here that rivals modern greats like Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Bob Seger and The Eagles for sound and the thematic nature of the songwriting. (It's no accident that Saul Zaentz wanted to claim "The Old Man Down The Road" plagiarized "Run Through The Jungle.") Finally, Fogerty's voice is a slice of America that has become instantly recognizable for good reason - his rock and roll baritone is like no-one else in modern rock times.

The minuses. This could have easily been split between a CCR disc and a solo Fogerty disc instead of just single CD. Why no songs from Eye of the Zombie or The Blue Ridge Rangers? The live CCR cuts really should have been the studio versions. (You want this live? Get Premonition.) Two versions of "Fortunate Son?" Not necessary. The sequencing leaves a lot to be desired (again, begging the single instead of double CD issue). And no oddities/rarities/B-Sides.

While this serves as an OK primer for Fogerty's career, he has been delivering the goods consistently ever since Centerfield re-ignited his career. Leaving out so much makes it far from "Ultimate," and does Fogerty something of a disservice. February 9, 2008

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