Creedence Clearwater Revival News

Keller Williams at Rothbury Photo by Steve Galli. July 03, 2009 02:23 PM ET Gary Graff, Rothbury Guitar riffs, rhymes and polyrhythmic ragas got the second Rothbury Festival off to an eclectic start on Thursday at the Double JJ Ranch in western Michigan.

Former Creedence Clearwater Revival singer John Fogerty stops the rain and brings the firepower to L.A. this Fourth of July.

Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM will release a new album, titled "Skeletons In The Closet" , in the fall through Spinefarm Records .

As the sun begins to set on the Fourth of July, fireworks displays erupt all over the Los Angeles basin.

Sandstock, a new event coming to the Virginia Beach oceanfront the weekend of June 26-28, celebrates classic rock by presenting a collection of tribute bands along with a couple of true-blue musical relics: Melanie and Johnny Winter .

Creedence Clearwater Revisited, the Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band that includes original CCR members Stu Cook and Doug "Cosmo" Clifford headline the opening day of Country Stampede.

Lots of neat vinyl reissues this week, as well as other notable first-runs. B is for Bob comes out today, which is the first collection of Bob Marley's music to be rearranged for children.

BOB Bogle, whose driving, twanging electric guitar made the group he co-founded, the Ventures, the most successful instrumental band in rock'n'roll history, has died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in hospital in Vancouver, Washington State, in the United States.

Creedence Clearwater Revisited visits R.I. on Friday night. With hits such as "Proud Mary," "Traveling Band," "Green River" and more, Creedence Clearwater Revival were probably the kings of the back-to-basics rock movement that supplanted psychedelia in the late '60s and early '70s. And five years after their first album, it was all done.

An expanded edition of the documentary that chronicled the Woodstock Music and Art Fair will be released today.

It was quite a surprise to step into GM Place for John Fogerty and find that it was set up in "Pontiac Theatre" mode, where only a portion of the capacity is used.

That first Blue Ridge Rangers album from 1973 was Fogertya s first solo album after he left Creedence, but he chose to release it under a band sounding name.

Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, Tom Fogerty and John Fogerty made up the classic rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, who performed at the legendary Woodstock festival in 1969.

They say you had to be there. Well, if you were at Woodstock, that fabulous "three days of peace and music," you may need this week's big new release to help you remember it.

CONSIDERING how much times have changed, it's understandable if you're having trouble mustering any excitement for the upcoming 40th anniversary of Woodstock.

Thirty-eight previously unreleased recordings - from groups such as the Who , the Grateful Dead , Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jefferson Airplane - will dot Rhino's " Woodstock - 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm " box set, which will be released on Aug.

June 5 1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Milton Berle Show singing his songs complete with hip gyrations.

Former Creedence Clearwater Revival singer/songwriter John Fogerty plays the Save On Foods Memorial Centre on Monday, June 8. Doors at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets may still be available at the door.

John Fogerty performs in concert at Rexall Place in Edmonton on Wednesday, June 3, 2009.

He turned 64 on Thursday, but you'd never know it from the high-energy, 26-song set John Fogerty played at Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester Hills Friday night.