Fogerty The Reunion and The Revival

There are very few guitar players that have had the impact on pop music and culture as John Fogerty. Woodstock would not have happened without him. Go ahead look that up.

His group, Creedence Clearwater Revival, pioneered the crossover of country and rock. They were the first band with a TLA (Three Letter Acronym).

The legendary story of being cheated out of the royalties to all his hits left a tortured echo across the music business.

Here comes the guitar part of the story. The personally modified axe that played on all those iconic hits was in his hands at Woodstock and even the Ed Sullivan Show. It was a 1968 Fireglo Rickenbacker. He named it Acme.

When CCR broke up, a heart-broken Fogerty gave Acme away to a 12 year old kid in 1973.

After a decades long fight, Fogerty regained the rights to the songs he wrote and recorded. That’s good, but even better is the fact that he re-recorded twenty of the songs out of his catalogue. It was important that he kept the original sound. His wife traced down Acme for him and paved the way. There is a feeling a player gets from that certain guitar.

Forty years of separation ends with a reunion and a revival.

Here’s a reunion story that spanned decades.

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