SALAMANCA – For the second time since 2013, Creedence Clearwater Revisited came to Salamanca’s Seneca Allegany Resort and Casino. With a new singer they sound, and look, even closer to the classic line up so many fans would love to see.

How can you say that a band whose founders, still on stage after five decades, does not have the chops to take the stage for a 90-minute show and bring it to the fans in front of them? The good thing is that Stu Cook and Doug ‘Cosmo’ Clifford do not disappoint, and neither do their bandmates.

From the time they kicked off the Aug. 6 performance with “Born on the Bayou,” to the time they took a bow after “Around the Bend,” the band was truly all-star material. With the addition of Dan McGuinness on vocals and rhythm guitar, the band’s look is an awful lot of what it could have been before one of the ugliest splits in music history, and it sounded pretty awesome, too.

One of the signatures of the night was Kurt Griffey’s guitar work. The guy loves his solos, and he can fit them into any song the band happens to be playing. For much of the music, the solos were there as they needed to be, much like an incredible interlude during “Susie Q.”

One thing kept coming to my mind as I sat and watched, and listened; and thought. This is the band that two of the most influential musicians of the latter half of the 20th Century assembled. This is the music that fueled protest; that played in dorm rooms across the country during a turbulent time in American history. When the band played “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” it was like an instant reminder of what made the music great at that time, and amazingly pertinent now in a country that seems to be moving down the same path. That feeling continued to flow like electricity when Revisited played “Bad Moon Rising.” Some of the simple things like music really have a way of infecting a soul and bringing history to the present.

With each song the not-quite capacity room got louder in their vocals. With each tune the band looked as though they were having more fun. These are the shows that remind a music fan that the music is about the greatness and the fun, being with others having a good time.