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Sep 5 14 8:07 AM
I have never commented on 'Hoodoo' before.Maybe now is the time, maybe not..
I think John was perfectly right not to release it. It is nowhere near the quality of material we have come to expect from him and some of the tracks were paying lip service to the Disco craze that was peaking around 1976. And John Fogerty is the complete opposite of Disco. He was right to bin it.
It was only four years earlier that Mardi Gras was reviewed as 'possibly the worst album ever released by a major band' That must have hurt JFÂ whatever the behind the scenes acrimony attached to that recording. If Hoodoo had hit the streets, I reckon it would have attracted a similar response from the critics, and maybe driven John away from the music business altogether. It was a long nine years before the triumphant Centerfield, but I think that and subsequent albums would never have seen the light of day if his artistic integrity had taken a hammering again from the critics.
So leave Hoodoo where it is, in the many poor copies doing the rounds. Not everything that becomes legendary actually deserves it.