If ever there was a cautionary tale about the music industry, look no further than the covenant John Fogerty and his Creedence Clearwater Revival bandmates entered into with Fantasy Records owner Saul Zaentz when the band landed on his label.

In the process, Fogerty signed away the distribution and publishing rights to a treasure trove of hit material predominantly penned by him. Five decades-plus of litigation followed as the Berkeley, Calif., native fought to get back his songs with lawsuits and countersuits flying back and forth.

The vitriol got to the point where for roughly 15 years after Creedence Clearwater Revival dissolved in 1972, Fogerty refused to play the band’s songs in concerts, not wanting Zaentz to make money off his performances. (That resolve softened when Fogerty played a Vietnam veterans concert on July 4, 1987).

The tide changed when Concord Records purchased the Fantasy catalog in 2004. One of the first orders of business was to reinstate and increase Fogerty’s artist royalties, which he had relinquished to Zaentz in 1980 to get out of his Fantasy deal and had not received in a quarter century.

And now the 79-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has announced he is regaining control of upwards of 65 of the band’s copyrights, including songs such as “Fortunate Son,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Proud Mary” and “Have You Ever Seen the Rain,” for the first time with Concord (now the owner of Fantasy Records) retaining the band’s master recordings already in its catalog. Fogerty is grateful this protracted legal battle has been resolved.

“It’s the most rewarding and fulfilling thing careerwise,” he said in a recent interview. “I was denied ownership for so long of these songs that I wrote and created.

“I’ve tried for years and years to figure out all the legal ways and friendly man-to-man ways that you try things and I was always denied,” Fogerty added.

“It became such a large source of disappointment to me. You generate a lot of emotions, especially over time. It’s a big relief now.”

Not surprisingly, this tour is making up for the lost time of Fogerty not delving into the rich catalog for so long. That tour hits the new Ford Amphitheater in Colorado Springs on Tuesday.

“Because of the celebration of me getting ownership of my songs, it’s such a brand-new feeling for me,” he said.

“It’s been more than 50 years. That’s really the theme (for this tour). I’ll be doing much of the Creedence catalog and including some deeper album cuts as some people put it.”