★★★★★
Vanguard Records John Fogerty has written an astounding number of hit songs over the years but somehow often gets overlooked when great rock songwriters are discussed. Part of the reason may be that most of them were released by Creedence Clearwater Revival rather than by Fogerty as a solo artist. But part of the reason may also be that Fogerty's songs are so quintessentially down-home American that they comfortably blend into the background, like the smell of barbecue smoke on a hot summer...
- www.jambands.com
2013-08-18
★★★★★
????? By far the very best track on John Fogerty's Wrote A Song For Everyone is "Long As I Can See the Light" recorded with My Morning Jacket. Jim James' voice turns him into something a younger version of Fogerty when he sings, while the prominent piano and organ echo the arrangement of the Cosmo's Factory recording by CCR, as does the crisp guitar fill and the authoritative no frills rhythm work. "Someday Never Comes," recorded with Dawes also suits the song and the artists...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-07-10
★★★★★
Now, much as John Fogerty deserves all the credit and should be cut even more slack for masterminding the heyday of Creedence Clearwater Revival - America's biggest band in 1970 - even he can't stretch that goodwill far enough to accommodate the array of guests who interpret his songs here. Fogerty and the flippin' Foo Fighters kick-off with the epic Fortunate Son...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-06-20
★★★★★
Wrote a Song for Everyone--the title seems a little quaint at first glance, but when you really stop and think about it, its audacity becomes apparent. For John Fogerty to say that he's written a song for everyone is no small thing. After all, how many living songwriters can rightly claim such influence? Of course, Fogerty's got every right to call his album whatever he wants, and he just so happens to have the songbook to back up the claim...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-06-18
★★★★★
John Fogerty has written a couple dozen good to great songs, and some of them are included on "Wrote a Song for Everyone" (Vanguard). It pairs the masterful songwriter with friends and admirers ranging from My Morning Jacket to Alan Jackson as they revisit classics such as "Long as I Can See the Light" and "Someday Never Comes," with mostly underwhelming results...
- www.chicagotribune.com
2013-07-16
★★★★★
John Fogerty Wrote A Song For EveryoneBy Jason SchneiderThere are few artists in rock'n'roll history as ageless as John Fogerty. His Creedence Clearwater Revival legacy remains as strong as ever -- the band's label even sued Fogerty in the '80s for essentially sounding too much like himself on his solo albums -- and the current resurgence of American blue-collar rock owes much to CCR's continued popularity...
- exclaim.ca
2013-05-30
★★★★★
Vanguard For the longest time, John Fogerty refused to go near his own Creedence Clearwater Revival catalog due to copyright issues with his former label. When he finally re-embraced those classic rock mainstays, it was with a renewed fervor--when Fogerty revived Creedence live, his old songs crackled instead of sounding tired and worn...
- www.relix.com
2013-05-23
★★★★★
In the late Sixties and early Seventies, John Fogerty was rock & roll's Voice of America. On the five Top 10 LPs and seven straight Top Five singles that he wrote, sang and produced with Creedence Clearwater Revival from late 1968 to 1971, Fogerty recharged the scruffy, fundamental poetry of folk, country, blues and rockabilly with shredded-vocal passion, searing-guitar hooks and taut, incisive observations on the state of our democracy...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-05-24
★★★★★
Like others of a similar ilk, most notably the Lionel Richie 2012 opus Tuskegee, John Fogerty's latest walks the wire between duet project and tribute album. However you might decide to pin it down, the album works either way. The iconic Mr. Fogerty is joined by a diverse group of guest artists ranging from Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert to Bob Seger and Kid Rock for new versions of his classic Creedence Clearwater Revival songs and choice album cuts, and you can feel the mutual love and...
- www.countryweekly.com
2013-05-30
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