John Fogerty will keep his Celebration Tour going with a newly announced stretch of summer concerts featuring Geroge Thorogood & The Destroyers and his sons’ band Hearty Har.
The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman will kick off the new tour dates on June 2nd in Simpsonville, SC. Fogerty, Thorogood, and Hearty Har will cruise the East Coast throughout June, stopping in Charleston, SC (6/4), Raleigh (6/5), Camden, NJ (6/7), Scranton, PA (6/8), Bristow, VA (6/9), Canandaigua, NY (6/11), Saratoga Springs, NY (6/12), Bethel, NY where CCR played Woodstock (6/14), Holmdel, NJ (6/15), Uncasville, CT (6/16), Gilford, NH (6/19), and finally Lenox, MA (6/20). Then in July, Fogerty will head overseas (sans Thorogood) for a run of festival appearances before returning stateside for shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO (8/26) and the Utah State Fair in Salt Lake City (9/11). Fogerty will be backed at these performances by Hearty Har, which features his sons Shane and Tyler who will also open the shows.
“George and I have done shows together before, but for years we’ve talked about doing a full tour together,” Fogerty said in a press release. “This summer we decided time is short, we better do this now.”
Tickets for the new U.S. dates on the John Fogerty Celebration Tour will go on sale on Friday, March 15th at 10 a.m. local time here. Scroll down for a detailed list of concerts.
This tour announcement comes after Fogerty finally acquired the rights to CCR’s songs early last year, ending a nearly 60-year legal battle. Fogerty’s fight dates back to 1967 when film producer and record company executive Saul Zaentz purchased Fantasy Records, which Creedence signed to back in 1964 when they were still known as The Blue Velvets. Fogerty for years attempted to extricate himself and the CCR entity from Fantasy even long after the band had broken up. In 1980, he sold his rights to Zaentz to get out of the deal, with the exec even unsuccessfully suing Fogerty in 1985 for self-plagiarism, claiming that John’s solo song “The Old Man Down the Road” was a ripoff of CCR’s “Run Through The Jungle”. For a quarter century, Fogerty didn’t receive any royalties for his large catalog of Creedence hits like “Fortunate Son”, “Have You Ever Seen The Rain”, “Bad Moon Rising”, and “Proud Mary” and refused to play them live.
That decades-long fight finally ended in early 2023 when Fogerty purchased a majority interest in Creedence’s catalog from Concord Records for an undisclosed sum. Concord bought Fantasy in 2004 and reinstated and increased Fogerty’s royalties, which he hadn’t received since his 1980 deal with Zaentz. The company still owns the band’s master recordings but will continue to pay his publishing royalties. Under U.S. copyright law, the rights to the songs will begin reverting back to Fogerty 56 years after they were published.
“The happiest way to look at it is, yeah, it isn’t everything,” he told Billboard. “It’s not a 100% win for me, but it’s sure better than it was. I’m really kind of still in shock. I haven’t allowed my brain to really, actually, start feeling it yet.”
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