Why did The Blue Ridge Rangers never tour?

alaspooryoric

The Blue Ridge Rangers were never really a band in the first place. This was merely John Fogerty as a solo artist recording himself playing different instruments and dubbing and so on. Apparently, he recorded an album after the breakup of Creedence Clearwater Revival to distance himself from CCR and establish himself as something different and separate. http://www.answers.com/topic/the-blue-ridge-rangers Jun 17 11, 7:50 AM

AyatollahK

The answer is correct but a little too simplistic. When Creedence broke up, John Fogerty bitterly hated Saul Zaentz, the owner of Fantasy Records (for which Creedence recorded), but he owed more albums to the label. In addition, Zaentz controlled Fogerty's publishing rights, so any new Fogerty compositions belonged to Zaentz. The Blue Ridge Rangers album had two purposes: 1) satisfy one of the albums that Fogerty owed to Fantasy without using Fogerty's name, almost insuring that it would fail, and 2) use only old standards, so that Fogerty did not have to publish any new songs through Zaentz. This article addresses those issues: http://theseconddisc.com/2010/06/29/review-john-fogerty-centerfield-25th-anniversary/ Here's an New York Times article on the dislike between Fogerty and Zaentz, although it doesn't specifically touch on the Blue Ridge Rangers issue (which, as this article shows, was merely a skirmish in a much bigger war): http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/01/arts/music/01foge.html Jun 17 11, 8:10 PM