John Fogerty on the Most Misunderstood Music of His Career

Two years ago, John Fogerty achieved something that he thought would be impossible in his lifetime. He purchased the majority ownership of his Creedence Clearwater Revival catalogue — and damn, what a catalogue — a victory that had eluded him for over five decades of his career. But we’re not here to give his old record label a Viking burial on the Green River for its sins. Instead, what better way to celebrate both Fogerty’s new professional freedom and entry into the octogenarian birthday club than by releasing Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years , out on August 22, which finds our forefather of flannel rerecording versions of his stone-cold classics.

This reclamation of an album has every imaginable hit that Fogerty wrote for his band (“Bad Moon Rising,” “Up Around