John Fogerty: John Fogerty
Gene Sculatti, Creem, December 1975
IT'S BEEN TEN or twelve years since the East Bay Golliwogs traipsed onto some crepe-strewn highschool gym floor and set up, almost a decade since Creedence Clearwater Revival took the stage in a smoky Avalon Ballroom, nearly half as long since John Fogerty assumed the identity of the ill-fated Blue Ridge Rangers.
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