From the broad, hopeful tone of opener "Don't You Wish It Was True" to the brisk closer "Longshot," John Fogerty at 62 has made his toughest, best-written album since Creedence Clearwater Revival disbanded in 1972. Hell having frozen over, he is back on the Fantasy label after more than 30 years of litigation and torment. On the raving Little Richard-style "I Can't Take It No More," he addresses George W. Bush directly ("You lied about the WMDs") and witheringly reduces the president to "another fortunate son." The message would mean nothing without the serious heft of the music, and Fogerty's guitar playing has rarely been as blistering as it is on the rockabilly "It Ain't Right" or the Cream/Hendrix tribute "Summer of Love." His original band gets its own tribute on "Creedence Song," a toast to the sound that fed a thousand bar bands. —Wayne Robins