Hailing from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Iron Horse is a bluegrass band that formed in 2000 with Tony Robertson (mandolin), Ricky Rogers (bass), Anthony Richardson (banjo) and Vance Henry (guitar). Several members had previously worked with Jake Landers and Rual Yarbrough. Since 2003, when they were approached by CMH Records to record a tribute album to Metallica, they have since done bluegrass tribute albums to Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath, Modest Mouse, Guns N Roses, Pearl Jam and The Doors. They’ve also released other albums of bluegrass, gospel and holiday music.

Creedence Clearwater Revival’s music, and specifically the songs written by John Fogerty, adapt very well to bluegrass stylings with instruments and arrangements that capture some of that same earthy passion and soul of that San Francisco area band. A bluegrass band, of course, doesn’t give the songs that same unique swampy crunch we’re used to on CCR’s original hits like “Down on the Corner,” “Proud Mary,” “Lodi,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?,” "Looking Out My Back Door," and “Someday Never Comes.” Iron Horse doesn’t take too many risks with these songs, and it’s hard not to compare their bluegrass arrangement of “Proud Mary” with one like Garland Shuping’s hard-driving version that was put out in the 1970s. Perhaps some guest fiddle and resophonic guitar could’ve been nice on a few of these “Pickin’ On” tracks. Yet, Iron Horse does show that they are a talented, flexible and adaptable group. John Fogerty’s songwriting contributions with blue-collar views unquestionably place him in the ranks of America’s top songwriting legends, but let’s hope that his sense of the nation’s impending apocalypse in “Bad Moon Rising” doesn’t come to fruition. (Joe Ross, Roots Music Report)