>>129320645
Did he really try?
Apparently he released a country covers album as his first post-CCR, that didn't even have his name on it.
The first album of his own material wasn't released until 1975, three years after CCR ended, and did have a decent selling hit, Rockin Over the World.
Then that was pretty much it until his comeback in the 80's.
Probably the better example of the guy who dominated and was synonymous with a huge band and then had a surprisingly non-noteworthy solo career was Sting.
Maybe it was the other guys in the Police keeping him from just doing boring jazz/adult contemporary.

>>129322792
Honestly it's understandable from both sides. Fogerty did come up with the golden formula that churned out the hits, but he overlooked that the other band members were essential ingredients in that formula. He seems to get it now, but it's a shame the other surviving members aren't interested anymore.
I don't think Sting was ever humbled in the same way, though he has infinitely less talent than any of these people. Probably because the kind of music he makes doesn't rely as much on raw performance and can get by on the production alone.

>>129320645
fogerty's early solo output (even the scrapped album) shows he really was capable of doing things on his own. not CCR tier, but he plays all the instruments on the albums and i'm surprised he isn't brought up in "one man band" conversations that much. i'm also pretty sure (headcanon) that he played the instruments on his mardi gras songs cause the bass/drums are so fucking simple compared to the usual stu/doug parts
based rare fogerty thread

John Fogerty [Asylum, 1975]
The best singing here is at medium tempos--Fogerty sounds distraught for no reason when he rocks out, and the revved-up horns just push him harder. But the best songwriting is on the fast side-openers--"Rockin' All Over the World" and "Almost Saturday Night," neither of which could be called an illumination. This is what happens when rock devolves from a calling into an idea--you can't even be absolutely certain it's him rather than you, but you know he'll never get away with it twice. B

>>129320645
CCR was really a group effort. John was the songwriting genius but the musicianship of the whole band was just as crucial to what made them great. Cook and Clifford were an incredibly tight and groovy rhythm section and Tom Fogerty's rhythm guitar tones and riffs are iconic.

>>129323564
Huh, I never knew that. Playing everything yourself is a double edged sword though. I can say that from experience since I've done the same before. You get total control to make your songs the way you hear them in your head but it's almost always a more narrow vision. You need outside input. It's why all professional authors have editors.
>>129323620
Who tf writes like this?

>>129320645
Rock and Roll Girls is a bop

>>129323652
To an extent, but didn't the different members do their own songs on Mardi Gras? I haven't listened to that album in a while, but I remember the non-JF tracks being way shittier than JF's stuff.

>>129325197
You don't have to be a songwriter to be a good musician. Elvis didn't write most of his songs either but the people he worked with didn't all get together and force him to write a full album of songs just to make some misguided point that he wasn't worth shit.