JOHN FOGERTY’S NEW ALBUM ‘WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE’
ENTERS BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART AT #3,
MARKING THE HIGHEST CHART DEBUT EVER IN HIS ENTIRE CAREER
FROM CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL THROUGH TODAY
JOHN FOGERTY’s new album WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE has entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart at #3, selling 51,319 copies in its first week. This marks the Grammy
Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s highest-debuting
album of his career (including Creedence Clearwater Revival releases). In addition, this is Fogerty’s highest charting record since 1985's Centerfield hit #1. One of rock’s most important artists and a national treasure who’s sold over 100 million albums, FOGERTY has also announced preliminary tour dates for the fall (see dates below).
Produced by FOGERTY, WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE is generating widespread praise and has received Rolling Stone magazine’s highest rating--a rare 5 stars--in a lead review in the current issue:
A celebration of FOGERTY’s
iconic songbook, the album is a collection of 14 songs: 12 classics and
deep tracks (Creedence Clearwater Revival and solo material) from his
remarkable canon of hits recorded in collaboration with today’s biggest
superstars from the country, pop and rock worlds, plus two brand new
solo songs including the new single and video “Mystic Highway.” WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE was released by Vanguard Records on May 28, FOGERTY’s birthday, when he performed a sold-out, intimate one-night-only album release and birthday bash concert at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles that was broadcast live on AXS TV and also simulcast on legendary radio station KLOS (95.5fm in Los Angeles).
On the concert front, JOHN FOGERTY will be rockin’ all over the world in 2013 and 2014. The preliminary tour dates are below, with more to come soon. In addition, FOGERTY has two festival sit-ins with Widespread Panic and Zac Brown Band.
WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE marks the singer, songwriter and guitarist’s ninth studio solo album since disbanding Creedence Clearwater Revival. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain, it was recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville except for "Proud Mary" which was recorded in New Orleans with Allen Toussaint and the Rebirth Brass Band. FOGERTY recorded “Fortunate Son” with Foo Fighters at their 606 studio using "the" legendary Neve recording console featured in the #1 iTunes documentary Sound City.
Early Critical Praise for WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE:
“The
result is some of the best new music Fogerty has made since, well,
Creedence. His singing is strong and engaged, even scalding when he goes
up against Kid Rock in ‘Born on the Bayou,’ and the current state of
Fogerty’s guitar playing is summed up in his shootout with country
picker Brad Paisley in ‘Hot Rod Heart.’… “Looking back at these songs,
in this company, has brought out a fire and nerve in Fogerty. He sounds
as renewed in these performances as the riffs and stories.”
--David Fricke, ROLLING STONE June 6, 2013 (five star review)
"Fogerty
and Foo Fighters muscle their way through the strafing guitar riffs of
‘Fortunate Son,’ he and Urban anticipate the joys of an impending
weekend in ‘Almost Saturday Night.’ He meets the Zac Brown Band halfway
between his own classic swamp rock and their Southern boogie groove for a
bouncy revision of ‘Bad Moon Rising,’ and delves into the latent
spirituality of the stately title track with Miranda Lambert, for which
Fogerty delegated guitar solo duties to Rage Against the Machine/the
Nightwatchman guitarist Tom Morello."
--Randy Lewis, LOS ANGELES TIMES, May 28, 2013
“…listening to the songs on John Fogerty's Wrote a Song For Everyone
will be like reacquainting with old friends, their wisdom and vitality
still exhilarating after all these years…the results rock. Highlights
include a thunderous performance of ‘Fortunate Son’ featuring the Foo
Fighters and Fogerty sound-alike Dave Grohl; the 1997 obscurity ‘Hot Rod
Heart,’ with Brad Paisley revving up his guitar; and a rollicking
‘Proud Mary,’ reclaimed from marching band songbooks everywhere by
Jennifer Hudson, Allen Toussaint and the Rebirth Brass Band. Fogerty
himself remains a mighty singer, and shows he hasn't lost his knack as a
songwriter either. Two new tunes fit right in, which is impressive
given such distinguished company.”
--Steven Wine, ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 28, 2013
About John Fogerty:
John
Fogerty--singer, songwriter and guitarist--has sold over 100 million
records, earning 18 Gold Albums and 10 Platinum Albums. He was inducted
into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, won the Grammy Award for
his album Blue Moon Swamp in 1997 and was inducted into
the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005. He is also a BMI Icon Award
Winner. In addition, Fogerty and his #1 phenomenal recording
“Centerfield” were honored during the 2010 National Baseball Hall of
Fame Induction Ceremonies--the first time the National Baseball Hall of
Fame has immortalized a musician or song as part of the annual
ceremonies. He’s also called the “Father of the Flannel Shirt.”
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