John Fogerty says his new best-of collection, "The Long Road Home," is truly a homecoming for him.

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The just-released album came out on Fantasy Records, the label that signed Fogerty with his band, Creedence Clearwater Revival. After a long period of estrangement dating back to the early '70s, an ownership change brought him back to the company.

"These songs are kind of my long, lost children that were sort of vandalized away from me," says Fogerty, whose contract with Fantasy gave the company copyrights to all of his songs. "It seemed like they finally had a happy home, which was nice, and as time went on and we did some negotiating, it seemed like a logical place for me to settle and make new recordings again."

Among the many issues between Fogerty and Fantasy was a 1985 lawsuit in which the company claimed Fogerty's single "The Old Man Down the Road" plagiarized the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit "Run Through The Jungle" -- which Fogerty also wrote. Fogerty won the case in 1988, and in 1994 Fantasy was ordered to reimburse him for $1 million in legal expenses.