You probably heard the recent news that Taylor Swift has now bought back the rights to her previous song releases - which she had re-recorded again when she didn't own her original performances- but now she owns them all and is making money off both her old and new renditions...
And so now John Fogerty has released a new album with a note-to-note recreation of his old hits, so he can receive some revenue for his performances too...
"...“I wanted to call it Taylor’s Version," he reveals. "I lobbied very much to the record company”: In the end, he was convinced to go for the somewhat less amusing title, Legacy.
Asked why old Creedence fans would want to fork out for note-for-note re-recordings of tracks they already own, he answered: “That’s a great question, because I asked that myself. But there’s a couple of things. Number one, there’s probably no chance in the world I will ever have any part of the ownership of the old masters. This is kind of the Taylor Swift part. But another thing is, I think there’s a joy quite evident in the music that may not be there in the original versions.”
Another reason (though he didn’t mention it) may be the huge success of the Swift re-recording programme. The four albums she’s remade since 2019 have been worldwide best sellers, proving that fans actually will buy the same songs twice..."