# John Fogerty made rock’s greatest records. But he believed another band’s grooves were impossible to top

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/john-fogerty-made-rocks-greatest-records-but-he-believed-another-bands-grooves-were-impossible-to-top/
- Published: 2026-11-02T18:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T22:51:52+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-fogerty-made-rocks-greatest-records-but-he-believed-another-bands-grooves-were-impossible-to-top/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- John Fogerty prized a band’s chemistry over individual virtuosity.
- He called Booker T and the MG’s’ groove unmatched.
- CCR’s sound, he argued, depended on its members playing together.

## Summary

John Fogerty said that a band’s shared sound can matter more than the individual technical ability of its musicians. He pointed to Booker T and the MG’s as the finest example of a group creating a groove no one else had matched, a standard he believed musicians should aim for.

The article connects that view to Creedence Clearwater Revival, whose success grew from the way its members played together. Tom Fogerty left in 1970 after tensions with his brother John, and the article says the group’s later material declined; John’s solo work did not fully recapture CCR’s sound either. Booker T and the MG’s, including Steve Cropper and other musicians, developed their distinctive sound together as Stax’s house band and later as a group in their own right.

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