Track Listing

1. Don't You Wish It Was True
2. Gunslinger
3. Creedence Song
4. Broken Down Cowboy
5. River Is Waiting
6. Long Dark Night
7. Summer Of Love
8. Natural Thing
9. It Ain't Right
10. I Can't Take It No More
11. Somebody Help Me
12. Longshot

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2936 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 41 minutes

Customer Reviews

Worth waiting for
It has been a long time coming but the end result is a quality product. My girlfriend and I listened to it for the first time on a long drive across Germany and Belgium and we liked it so much that we let it repeat several times. The melodies are good, the musicianship is first class and some of the political comment is very apt. he even nods in the direction of CCR a couple of times. Great stuff!

Starts slow
The trademark guitar and voice are in place, one of the most distinctive sounds in late 20th century music, yet it's 40 years since Creedence's heyday. So inevitably you're wondering, can the old man crank it up again? The album starts unpromisingly with 'Don't You Wish It Was True' a sedate rumination on wishful thinking. In fact side 1 (as we used to say) is workmanlike, enjoyable enough, but nothing to justify the hullabaloo. But side 2 kicks off with 'Summer of Love' and suddenly things look up, it's Fogerty, but the guitar echoes Hendrix and Clapton as much as his own playing, 'Natural Thing' follows with a straightforward celebration of love and lust, then it's back to that old time rock'n'roll for 'It Ain't Right's swipe at the pampered and privileged and 'I Can't Take It No More' which boils over with righteous anger at the lies and spin of the Bush regime, like Jerry Lee running for President. 'Longshot' closes out the album on a classic Creedence groove, just like he never went away.

His best since Centerfield.

jody fell out of his tractor
Simple, clean, uncluttered, concise and catchy, all the things his peers: the verbose, self important and over produced Eagles or muddy, trying too hard Springsteen never could be. On `Broken Down Cowboy' JCF hits home harder and truer emotionally than he has ever done - with the possible exception of `Someday Never Comes'. Along with the infectious title track, cool `Gunslinger' and a few short sharp sweet rockers `Broken Down Cowboy' finds the West Coast rocker at his best, the gospel inflected `River is Waiting' is reminiscent in spirit to the terrific `Sail Away' (from the otherwise undistinguished `Zombie' album). Perhaps the material overall on `Revival' is not as good as that great benchmark `Blue Moon Swamp' - nevertheless this stripped down hog is a satisfying return to form. Fogerty is still ahead of everyone else!