JOHN FOGERTY TO MAKE SPECIAL APPEARANCES AS PART OF THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS

Celebratio​ns In Advance Of His Upcoming Album ‘WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE’

 

In advance of the May 28 release of his buzzed-about album WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE influential rock legend JOHN FOGERTY will appear on two special televised country music events: the 48th annual Academy of Country Music Awards and Tim McGraw’s Superstar Summer Night Special.

For the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards--airing live Sunday, April 7 at 8:00 PM on CBS-TV from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas—the iconic singer, songwriter and guitarist will be a presenter. The ceremony, co-hosted by Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, honors country music’s top talent as well as the industry’s hottest emerging artists.

Fogerty will perform on the ACM Presents: Tim McGraw’s Superstar Summer Night Special, taping on Monday, April 8, 2013 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The Special is set to air Sunday, May 19 at 9:00-11:00 PM on CBS-TV.

WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE--a celebration of FOGERTY’s iconic songbook--is a collection of 12 classics and deep tracks from his remarkable canon of hits recorded in collaboration with other artists, plus two brand new solo songs. Performed alongside an array of today’s biggest superstars from the country, pop and rock worlds, it marks FOGERTY'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. In an in-studio feature in Rolling Stone (2/14/13), Clearmountain is quoted as saying: “It’s no nostalgia fest. It’s like they’re new songs.”

Within a week of servicing the album to radio, every song from the 14-track WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE was spun at stations across Rock and Country formats with over 1,000,000 listeners hearing the music.
Fogerty's enormous influence on music includes the world of country music, and artists such as Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert, Zac Brown Band, Brad Paisley and Alan Jackson join him on WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE. At the links below, Urban and Lambert talk about working with FOGERTY on the album and how he’s inspired them.

KEITH URBAN talking about recording “Almost Saturday Night” with FOGERTY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg2pfv7IcjQ&list=UUHIt01zPTy4QKG9fVCMh3eA&index=1

MIRANDA LAMBERT talking about recording “Wrote a Song for Everyone” with FOGERTY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc9dspz0HrY&list=UUHIt01zPTy4QKG9fVCMh3eA&index=1

JOHN FOGERTY AND KEITH URBAN RECORD "ALMOST SATURDAY NIGHT"

 

When John Fogerty was approached with the idea to "get a bunch of the people that you really love and do your songs," his new album 'Wrote A Song For Everyone' came to life.

One of the classics on the album, "Almost Saturday Night," was a song written by John in, "a really dark time for me, and yet I wrote this cheerful song right in the middle of it."

The song has a great deal of meaning for him, which is why John decided to give country superstar and legend Keith Urban a call to join him on the track for his new album 'Wrote A Song For Everyone.' Urban brings a new blast of energy with his guitar, banjo and unique sound. John said Keith, "is an incredible monster musician, probably the greatest musician on this record."

The respect is mutual for these two musicians. In Keith's interview below he describes the emotions that took place in the studio while recording "Almost Saturday Night." He says, "There's nothing like being in the studio, you've got the headphones on, and suddenly there's John's voice…That was a real magical moment for me."

"The two had the "best time doing this song," and the finished product shows it. Play the video below to step into the studio with John Fogerty and Keith Urban, and watch footage of the behind-the-scenes work that went into the making of the track.

  You can pre-order the album here now, on iTunes or Amazon prior to the release on May 28th!

JOHN FOGERTY’S NEW RELEASE WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE AVAILABLE MAY 28th ON VANGUARD RECORDS

FOGERTY’S NEW RECORDING OF HIS CLASSIC “BORN ON THE BAYOU”WITH KID ROCK

WAS USED IN NFL NETWORK’S COVERAGE OF SUPER BOWL XLVII

ALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ON ITUNES AND AMAZON!

JOHN FOGERTY’S much-anticipated album WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE will be released May 28th on Vanguard Records, his first for the label.  Beginning today (February 4), the album is available for pre-order in both the iTunes and Amazon stores (see the album cover above and the tracklisting below). One of the album’s highlights--FOGERTY’s immortal swamp rock smash hit “Born On The Bayou” which the legendary rocker has recorded with Kid Rock--was used by NFL Network in their coverage of Super Bowl XLVII fittingly played in New Orleans.

Wrote a Song for Everyone tracklisting:

1. Fortunate Son (with Foo Fighters)

2. Almost Saturday Night (with Keith Urban)

3. Lodi (with Shane Fogerty and Tyler Fogerty)

4. Mystic Highway (John Fogerty solo)

5. Wrote a Song for Everyone (with Miranda Lambert feat. Tom Morello)

6. Bad Moon Rising (with Zac Brown Band)

7. Long As I Can See the Light (with My Morning Jacket)

8. Born on the Bayou (with Kid Rock)

9. Train of Fools (John Fogerty solo)

10. Someday Never Comes (with Dawes)

11. Who'll Stop the Rain (with Bob Seger)

12. Hot Rod Heart (with Brad Paisley)

13. Have You Ever Seen the Rain (with Alan Jackson)

14. Proud Mary (with Jennifer Hudson feat. Allen Toussaint and the Rebirth Brass Band)

Produced by FOGERTY, one of rock’s most important artists and a national treasure who’s sold over 100 million records, WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE is a celebration of his iconic songbook and a collection of 12 classics and deep tracks from his remarkable canon of hits as well as two brand new songs, “Mystic Highway” and “Train of Fools.” FOGERTY performed alongside an array of today’s biggest superstars from the  country, pop and rock worlds including Foo Fighters, Bob Seger, Keith Urban, Jennifer Hudson, Kid Rock, Brad Paisley, the Zac Brown Band, My Morning Jacket, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert and more.   The album also sees FOGERTY teaming with an acclaimed new band like Dawes, who were eager to acknowledge the groundbreaking songwriter/guitarist’s titanic influence. FOGERTY also recorded his classic “Lodi” with his sons Shane and Tyler Fogerty at Abbey Road Studios in London.

As FOGERTY explains in a cover story in the current (January/February) “Legends” issue of American Songwriter: “I encouraged each of these artists to come up with their own vision of my song, rather than just redoing what I’d recorded in the past. I was hoping they’d have some different twist so it would be fresh, so I’d have to work, too. I wanted it to be something new.”

WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE marks FOGERTY'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 AllenToussaint 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. FOGERTY has performed with the Sound City Players, the all-star band assembled by Dave Grohl to play the music created for the film and other classics, at recent shows at both the Sundance Film Festival and the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.

JOHN FOGERTY will tour in 2013 and look for him to be at this year’s SXSW in Austin (dates/events TBA).

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John Fogerty Album on the Way Features Country Mega-Stars!

CCR's John Fogerty has a new album on the way called "Wrote a Song For Everyone" and it features some of country music's finest as his musical guests. Artists featured on the project are Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban. This project will be Fogerty's first from Vanguard and it's being called "a celebration of Fogerty's iconic songbook." Other non country artists featured on the cd will be Dawes, Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket and Bob Seger. Look for the album out this fall.