Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) was one of the greatest rock ensembles ever, and it’s impossible to even think about classic rock royalty and not include them.
Ex-CCR leader, John Fogerty, who was the driving force behind the sound and success of the band, led the quartet to major success in the late ’60s and early ’70s (and even played a scorcher of a set at the original Woodstock festival in 1969). Post-CCR, Fogerty mounted a great solo career, during which he created the amazing “Centerfield” album in 1985.
Most recently, Fogerty released the album, “Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years.” The disc has Fogerty re-recording songs from the CCR catalog (for which he also used his family members on the recordings).
His current jaunt, labeled “The Legacy Tour,” performed to a sold-out house at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 14, 2025.
Fogerty wasted no time in pulling out CCR classics, commencing with “Bad Moon Rising” (which had a second life years after its initial release when included in the 1981 horror classic, “An American Werewolf in London”) and running through hits “Up Around the Bend”, “Green River”, “Born on the Bayou” and “Who’ll Stop the Rain”(written about CCR’s experience at Woodstock).
While Fogerty’s set was mostly made up of CCR tunes, he did unwrap a handful of songs from his solo career as “Rock and Roll Girls”, “A Hundred and Ten in the Shade” and a touching melody written for his wife, “Joy of My Life”.
Fogerty’s family members were present all evening, as his sons, Shane and Tyler, played guitar along with their father all night. Not just riding on their dad’s name, both of his sons have first-rate guitar talents.
A raucous “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” was followed up by a cut from The Golliwogs (the original pre-fame name for CCR), “Fight Fire.”
The sci-fi vibes of “It Came Out of the Sky” turned into a guitar solo from Fogerty (which included shades of Eddie Van Halen) and a blistering “Keep On Chooglin”.
The set ended with “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?”, an epic version of the baseball-filled lyrics of “Centerfield” (which was more relevant than usual as MGM is actually a part of the legendary Boston baseball field, Fenway Park), “Down on the Corner”, “The Old Man Down the Road” and a fantastic take of the politically-laced song of privilege, ‘Fortunate Son.”
Fogerty returned, and since it was the last night of “The Legacy Tour,” toasted the crowd with a flute of champagne. A show ending double-shot of “Travelin’ Band” (one of the best songs about life on the road) and CCR’s most iconic creation, “Proud Mary,” brought the end to a night from one of the greatest inventors of classic rock ever.
