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John Fogerty - The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again [CD/DVD] Audio CD

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John Fogerty Band: John Fogerty
Title: The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again [CD/DVD]
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Release Date: 2009-08-31
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Paradise (John Prine) 2: Never Ending Song of Love (Bonnie Bramlett/Delaney Bramlett) 3: Garden Party featuring Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit (Rick Nelson) 4: I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)(Buck Owens) 5: Back Home Again (John Denver) 6: I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) (Ray Price/Rusty Gabbard) 7: Change in the Weather (John Fogerty) 8: Moody River (Gary Bruce) 9: Heaven's Just a Sin Away (Jerry Gillespie) 10: Fallin' Fallin' Fallin' (D. Deckleman/J. Guillot/J.D.Miller) 11: Haunted House (Robert L. Geddins) 12: When Will I Be Loved featuring Bruce Springsteen (Phil Everly) 13: The Making of The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again 14: Acoustic performances 15: Trailer for upcoming DVD release "Live from the Royal Albert Hall"

One of the Best
Can't wait to see what he comes up with next. This is one of the best CD's I have ever heard. What a talent.


Great Hillbilly Honky Tonk for all you Good 'Ole Boys and Girls!
I like this album from the standpoint that Fogerty chose to perform old traditional type Country songs which he put his personal touch to plus he surrounded himself with some top shelf musicians. I ordered this CD after hearing John Fogerty perform the old Everly Brothers/Linda Ronstadt classic 'When Will I Be Loved' on the David Letterman show. You will be hard pressed to find a better steel guitarist (Greg Leisz) and violinist/fiddle player (Jason Mowery - the best I've heard this side of Soozy Tyrell of the Bruce Springsteen Sessions Band, Sharon Corr of The Corrs, and Mairead Nesbitt of Celtic Woman) than those on this album. This CD is likeable if you like the old traditional Country standards but may not be preferred by someone who likes the current Country scene. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What I really like most about this album is that it is . . . DIFFERENT.

My favorite song on this album is 'Never Ending Song Of Love' which was originally written by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett (who also played with Eric Clapton and were instrumental in getting Clapton's solo career started) in the early 1970's. John Fogerty not only nailed this song clean but he actually enhanced it by adding a steel guitar and fiddle/violin to the instruments which gave it a 'Country' feel and therefore crossed the boundary from Folk/Rock to Country. 'Heaven's Just a Sin Away' is a real nice catchy tune which stays in your mind and is one that you will repeatedly sing to yourself. On 'Change in the Weather' John Fogerty puts his best down home soulful blues hat on and brings it on home. Other songs such as 'I Don't Care', 'I'll Be There', 'Fallin' Fallin' Fallin' ', 'Haunted House' are Honky Tonk Classics that will have you in Hee-Haw Heaven! This Fogerty album is real good and flows real well from top to bottom and is currently #1 on my personal listening list which is quite diverse (Rock, Soul, Irish/Celtic, Jazz, Classical, 50's, some Country, etc. ). He did a masterful job with these old classic songs.

Put on your cowboy/cowgirl hat plus your boots for this album is 100% Hillbilly Honky Tonk which you will absolutely love. This is really good stuff.
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John Fogerty does it Again with a great CD

Garden Party (Rick Nelson)
sung with Don Henley & TB Schmidt is priceless!
My only dissapointment was that the people who originally sang these songs were not listed on the CD by the song
I would have enjoyed seeing that
For example John Denver sang Home Again!
(obviously that one I know)

Otherwise the CD is fun I love it!
. A great CD well done by John Fogerty!
Wonderful renditions of old-time favorites & some classics.


Back to his brilliant best
Well, this was worth waiting for. We've waited a long time - a mere 36 years - for John Fogerty to follow up his first solo album after the break up of Credence, the country tinged album released under the name of the Blue Ridge Rangers. A stonking set from start to finish. From the opening track "Paradise" to the last, a cover of the Everly Brothers' When Will I Be Loved, this is a gem. I'd never have expected "Never Ending Song Of Love" to be recorded by any credible artist but the only thing this has in common with the New Seekers is the lyrics. Brilliant. Full justice is done to the late Rick Nelson's autobiographical Garden Party, Pat Boone's cringeworthy Moody River is transformed. I've got five different versions of Haunted House already but this one's as good as any (well perhaps Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs just shade it). I thought only Dwight Yoakam (and Buck of course!)could do a decent job of a Buck Owens song but JF does great on I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me) yet for me the standout track on a superb set is Heaven's Just A Sin Away. Worth double the price for this track alone. I've played it so much already, if this was a vinyl album it would be worn out by now. My only complaint is the grammar - surely it should be Ride Again!
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John Fogerty is the Blue Ridge Rangers.

At least he is singing with people who are still living, not tapes of dead Elvis. This time he is joined by some guest stars which seems to be the trend.
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