John Fogerty- Blue Moon Swamp

Blue Moon Swamp

John Fogerty comes out hiding every couple of years and releases a new album. The Grammy winning "Blue Moon Swamp" is a delightful album full of great songs touching on blues, country, rock and gospel over the course of its 14 songs. 14 songs you ask?Yep. The album has been reissued with two solid tracks recorded during the original sessions. "Endless Sleep" and "Just Pickin'" aren't as essential as the other tracks on the album but they are a nice bonus for fans that may not have purchsed the album before or are replacing it.

The two bonus tracks clock in at less than 5 minutes. As I said if you have the previous edition they aren't essential. With the switch of Fogerty's solo stuff (all except his Fantasy releases)to Geffen Records the label thought it would be wise to reissue this album with bonus tracks to entice buyers again. The same original master created by Bob Ludwig is used so it doesn't really sound different.  I keep coming back to this record, and it always does the trick.
It's got all the things I love about CCR, the Country, the Rock a Billy, and the Rock & Roll that Fogerty brought to us in his great 60's work.
Sort of a comeback record at the time, his last disc was probably 10 years earlier, but the fire was still burning, and I'm sure glad he keeps fanning the flames.
A great American songwriter, and gifted multi-instrumentalist, deeply rooted in the traditional, but with enough Rock and Roll, rebel spirit
to please those who may not own a pair of Cowboy boots.