The 1973 John Fogerty solo album that’s up there with CCR’s bestWhen a hugely popular band breaks up under rather tense circumstances, the leading members of that band are sometimes inclined to overcompensate on their next project: to record a solo album that takes the concept of ‘solo’ perhaps a tad too literally. While it’s remembered today as Fogerty’s debut solo album, The Blue Ridge Rangers confused an awful lot of people when it arrived in record shops in 1973. There was really only one logical way to interpret this: the Blue Ridge Rangers were a new country-rock quintet. There’s a great deal to enjoy about The Blue Ridge Rangers for any Creedence Clearwater Revival fan. And when the album was done, I was having a meeting with one of the henchmen of Fantasy,” who informed him of his “big obligation of albums I had to give him”, while discounting the Blue Ridge Rangers album as part of it, which shook Fogerty.