Creedence Clearwater Revival's new album “Cosmo’s Family” will be released around July 1. John Fogerty, backbone of the group, composer, singer, lead guitarist and business head, called this week to talk about the LP.

When asked if the new album would be a drastic change from the music the group is known for, Fogerty said, “It will only be part of the natural evolvement of the group. But we do more old songs... tunes that have been recorded previously by other people.”

Those old tunes are “My Baby Left Me”, a song recorded by Elvis way back in his meaningful days, “On Be Doo Bee” and “Before You Accuse Me”, from Bo Diddley’s first album and “probably his greatest album,” according to John. The fourth old tune isn’t so old. Creedence Clearwater takes on Motown’s “I Heard It Through The Grapevine.”

“We did ‘Grapevine’ the way it always struck me,” John said. “It took me about a year to like the song because I just didn’t hear it on the radio much. It’s hard to describe the way it’s done, except you could say it’s closer to the vein of ‘Midnight Special’ on Creedence’s last album, “Willie and the Poor Boys.” The song was a kind of break from the group’s usual driving sound as they sang it close to its traditionally known folk arrangement.

“This LP doesn’t have any Bayou-type songs,” John continued. “We do our first real slow song called Long As I Can See The Light. It’s a little different because it’s kind of — well, it has brass. There’s a sax solo and it’s like a night club tune. You can almost picture the sax man dressed in a sparkling, white suit down on his knees, if you know what I mean.”

‘Rumble Tumble’ is a fairly long song. There are a lot of changes, like meter and timing changes and even the basic sound varies within the song. That tune grew out of a lot of things and a lot of it was part of the original “Commotion.”

Hesitating, Fogerty described “Looking Out My Back Door” as a country and western tune. There’s more acoustic in it than most C&W tunes, though. It’s “a daydream thing or a fantasy type number.”

The other four songs on the album were all single releases and are pretty well known. They are “Run Through The Jungle,” “Travelin’ Band,” “Up Around The Bend” and “Who’ll Stop The Rain.”

“Long As I Can See The Light” will be the next Creedence Clearwater single backed with “Looking Out My Back Door.” You’ll probably hear most of the songs listed here at the Creedence Clearwater Revival concert to be held at Cobo Hall on July 18.

The group that will be at Cobo Hall July 5, The Who, went through some weird moments in Memphis last Monday. It had to do with those troublesome different meanings attached by the English and Americans to the same word. In this case, “bomb” meant “very good” to the Britishers. “I heard it was going a bomb in New York,” said group leader Peter Townshend, while talking with his tour manager aboard an airliner. They were discussing The Who’s newest album, already a million-seller, “Live At Leeds.” A stewardess overheard the comment and told the pilot, according to Memphis police, that Townshend said there was a bomb on the plane.

The pilot immediately turned the craft around and notified the authorities. All 69 passengers and their baggage were unloaded and inspected thoroughly before the flight was allowed to depart one hour and 20 minutes late. Townshend was held up for further questioning, causing the group to be a half hour late starting its Monday night show at Atlanta’s Memorial Auditorium.

Frank Allison, Nancy Volkes, and Joseph and Joseph. Admission is free.

Al Kooper is playing organ on Bob Dylan’s new album “Self Portrait.” Kooper, who just formed his new Easy Does It Band, made his first big breakthrough playing organ on Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone” LP. He then went on to form Blues Project and Blood, Sweat and Tears.

Don’t forget the Ann Arbor Blues Festival, scheduled for Aug. 7, 8 and 9. If you are thinking of going to Atlanta for the Pop Festival there, we have a new address to write to for tickets. It’s P.O. Box 77407, Atlanta, Ga. Two outlets for tickets in Mich. are “Head West” in Birmingham and “Student’s International Store” in Ann Arbor.

The Strata organization is presenting the last in their Synergy No. 6 Jazz Concert Series. On Sunday, June 28 at 8 p.m. a new modern music quintet, as they were described to me, will be playing at the Detroit Institute of Arts Lecture Hall. The group, known as The Larry Nozero Quintet, is composed of Nozero on tenor and soprano sax and flute; Eddie Nuchelli on trumpet and flugelhorn; Keith Vreeland on electric piano; John Dana on electric bass and Jim Paluso on nonelectric drums. Get your tickets at Wayne State University Ticket Office and Land of HiFi Record Store. Prices are $2 for students, $2.50 advance for others and $3 at the door.

Many phone calls are coming in requesting the address for the Goose Lake Park rock festival to be held August 7, 8 and 9. Once again, tickets can be obtained by writing Goose Lake Park, Inc., 30999 Ten Mile Rd., Farmington, Mich., 48024. If you can get your letter to that office before July 3 it will cost you $15 for the three-day event. After that date it’s $20. Groups evidently signed up for that festival are Savage Grace, SRC, Flying Burrito Brothers, John Sebastian, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Mountain, Savoy Brown and Joe Cocker. By the way, Savage Grace, SRC and Third Power are part of the Come