Resentment over the shabby treatment his band got from it's old record label and a lack of control over publishing rights to his own songs resulted in a decades long period during which John Fogerty refused to play Creedence Clearwater Revival songs during concerts.  He got beyond it enough to start including more and more CCR staples in his solo shows in recent years, but it wasn't until this week that he revisited a Creedence album in its entirety.  As it happened, Fogerty made-up for lost time by tackling two during his back-to-back nights at the Beacon Theatre in New York.  Thursday (11/17),  Fogerty and his band took on Cosmos Factory, adding great songs like Ramble Tamble and Long As I Can See The Light to the ones from the 1970 release he has frequently worked into concert sets in recent years.  He supplemented the set with a number of other Creedence songs, ones from his solo catalog and covers of Roy Orbison's Oh, Pretty Woman and Bad Case Of Loving You from the late Robert Palmer.  Friday's audience got a similarly deep treat - songs from the Green River album.
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