He said the arrangement for this new look at “Proud Mary” came up by happenstance as he and his wife, Julie, who co-produced the album with Fogerty, were discussing music at dinner one night and he started throwing out ideas about ways to play one of his more recent songs, “Don’t You Wish It Was True,” during his live shows. I knew of Fogerty’s affinity for all things New Orleans, having spotted him hanging out several times at the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival when I attended multiple years in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The new version features Jennifer Hudson and New Orleans musicians Allen Toussaint and the Rebirth Brass Band. One I didn’t touch on in Sunday’s story is the album’s closing track, “Proud Mary,” possibly Fogerty’s best known and most popular song.
With more than a dozen artists participating on “Wrote a Song for Everyone,” including the Foo Fighters, Kid Rock, Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Tom Morello and Jennifer Hudson, there were far more stories to tell than we could cover in one article. When I sat down with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member John Fogerty recently to discuss his new all-star album revisiting his Creedence Clearwater Revival songbook, we spoke about many of those collaborations for the feature story that will appear in the Sunday Arts & Books section.
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