Centerfield   by John Fogerty

In 1985, John Fogerty returned to the music industry after a ten-year absence with Centerfield. He had spent part of the previous years in legal disputes with Asylum Records. Centerfield was released by Warner Records Inc., and thus the former member and soul of Creedence Clearwater Revival felt he was making a fresh start in his career.

This is exactly what he expressed from the very first song of his album, The Old Man Down The Road, which was also the album's first single. The second single was Rock And Roll Girls, while the album's title track was also particularly loved. In Centerfield, John Fogerty made a slight shift from the CCR sound, but it wasn’t far from what his song fans were used to. We could say it leans towards Heartland Rock. The production of the album belongs to the artist himself, and the most remarkable thing is that he plays all the instruments thanks to the technology of overdubbing, which had advanced significantly by the mid-1980s.

Centerfield was a highly anticipated album in the USA. It was no coincidence that it quickly reached No. 1 on the Billboard and remains Fogerty's most commercially successful album, having sold over 2,000,000 copies in his homeland. Impressively, the album went platinum twice in Australia (!)