Blue Ridge Rangers: Blue Ridge Rangers; Grin: Gone Crazy
Simon Frith, Let It Rock, September 1973
JOHN FOGERTY became a hero by living in the Bay Area for 20 years and never becoming a hippie. He didnt desert his rock n roll roots under psychedelic pressure but now, for some reason, hes decided he needs some new ones after all: hes joined the current trail back to the country, Blue Ridge Rangers is a collection of Fogertys favourite country songs — ballads, gospel, rockabilly — played, arranged and produced entirely by himself. For the most part it seems a pretty pointless exercise.
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