I am a little bit disgruntled, after my take on CCR, to say that I definitely like Fogerty’s solo stuff better. CCR is still attached to a lot of the older blues sounds that feel to me to be a bit formulaic and boring. Which, preference, whatever, but that is the preference I have. I’m not opposed to that type of music, to those songs, there’s definitely a lot I appreciate and respect about it, and parts I enjoy, but at the end of the day it tends to blur and bore me. Fogerty, on his own, starts to shift more into what I would actually call rock and roll. That rock and roll sound is still formulaic, but it’s a formula I’m more partial to.
As I listened, it got harder and harder to keep my ear on it attentively. I don’t think it got worse; if anything, I think stuff got better on the whole of it over time. I just had a hard time caring about individual songs. It felt like I was listening to a type of music, not anything with a life of its own. It feels so derivative. Which is funny, considering that the chronology of the history would say that it’s what I actually do like that’s derivative, and this is what is being derived from. But that’s my feeling.
So it is that, despite feeling that I definitely like Fogerty substantially more than CCR, they’re gonna end up pretty much right next to each other. That feels kinda wrong, I feel like I ought to like Fogerty more, there’s nothing really about it I don’t like. I just got tired of it, and I feel like I should be true to that because that’s a real thing that happened, that should indicate something to me. Let it be so. D.
John Fogerty complete, now listening to: Woman Believer
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