John Fogerty -- Back In The Hills 1973 is track Nr. 11 from the 1976 Never Released Album "Ultra Rare Trax". Tracks 1-9 are from the original acetate of unreleased "Hoodoo" album from 1976. John is the younger brother of the late Tom Fogerty. He attended El Cerrito High School along with the other members of CCR and took guitar lessons from Berkeley Folk Festival creator/producer Barry Olivier. He became famous with the band Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Velvets that later became The Golliwogs (1959 to 1966). In 1967 the band changed its name to Creedence Clearwater Revival. In 1973 John Fogerty began a solo career, originally under the name The Blue Ridge Rangers and they split in 1984. Fogerty makes his solo career backup in 1985, 1997, 2007 and 2009 to present. Fogerty finished an album called Hoodoo in 1976. A single, "You Got The Magic" b/w "Evil Thing", preceded the album's release, but it performed poorly. The album, for which covers had already been printed, was rejecte! d by Asylum Records a couple weeks before its scheduled release, and Fogerty agreed that it wasn't up to his usual high standards. Fogerty told Asylum Records to destroy the master tapes for Hoodoo sometime in the 1980s. Fogerty is something of a perfectionist, often destroying unreleased material, but "bootleg" editions are known to exist of this material. Fogerty says that he was unable to write music during this period of his life. In 1990 Tom Fogerty died of AIDS (specifically from a tuberculosis
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