John Fogerty will perform at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Saturday evening.
Best known as the frontman of rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fogerty has also been active as a solo artist for more than half a century. Some of CCR’s most notable songs include “Fortunate Son,” “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” and “Bad Moon Rising” — they also performed the original version of “Proud Mary,” which lived on through R&B versions by Solomon Burke and the duo of Ike and Tina Turner.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, while Fogerty himself was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005.
After CCR’s streak of six consecutive RIAA-certified Platinum albums between 1968 and 1970, the group broke up two years later. Fogerty himself topped the charts with the 1985 LP “Centerfield,” which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album — a category he would win in 1998 with “Blue Moon Swamp.”
More recently, the Berkeley native has been active in his home state, earning a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998 and performing three sold-out 2009 shows with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
His second-most recent album, “Wrote a Song for Everyone,” peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and issued a cease and desist against Donald Trump’s unlicensed use of “Fortunate Son” at campaign rallies.
Fogerty, whose run with CCR was interrupted by two years in the U.S. Army Reserve, published a statement saying he wrote the song due to draft dodgers with “access to financial and political privilege” and wealthy people not paying enough taxes, calling Trump “a prime example of both of these issues.”
Following Saturday’s 8 p.m. stop in the Coachella Valley, Fogerty will have some time off until next month’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, after which he will play a quintet of shows in Europe before returning to the Hollywood Bowl.