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John Mellencamp: On The Rural Route 7609

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John MellencampOn The Rural Route 7609Island Def Jam2010While guitarist/vocalist John Mellencamp's four-CD box set spans his entire career, it is not a collection of hits alone. On this retrospective of his musical career, the Indian-bred rocker has chosen to include 54 songs, 17 of which are previously unreleased, and packaged them within a 72-page book containing many rare pictures, lyrics and commentary.The collection contains many of Mellencamp's hits ("Jack And ...

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Album Review

John Mellencamp: Life, Death, Love & Freedom

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Packaged in an environmentally friendly cardboard sleeve, Mellencamp has called this his CD of “modern electric folksongs." Life, Death, Love & Freedom contains 14 tracks, most of which are about life, death and love--hence the title.

Bluesy, but in a different manner than 2003's superb Trouble No More (Columbia), Life Death Love & Freedom is very much Mellencamp writing and creating his own folk/country blues songs rather than covering classics by Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Son House, Memphis Minnie and ...

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The Friday Morning Listen: John Mellencamp - Uh-Huh (1983)

The Friday Morning Listen: John Mellencamp - Uh-Huh (1983)

Source: Something Else!

We had the “official" start of summer a little over a week ago, by I've always felt that the 4th of July weekend was when summer stepped into its full bloom. In what has become a tradition, the small farm house that I pass by on my way to work has begun to display its enormous American flag. It covers the entire gable end of their house and must be at least 25 feet high. The house, surrounded by Farmall ...

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The Friday Morning Listen: John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (2010)

The Friday Morning Listen: John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (2010)

Source: Something Else!

By Mark Saleski I had intended for this essay to start out something like this: OK, I'll come right out and say it. I used to hate John Mellencamp. Back then he was known as John Cougar. All of my friends had their copies of American Fool, and I had to put up with that freaking “Jack and Diane" thing. Too bad my JazzSnob phase hadn't taken off yet. I could have tortured them with... Before I got around to ...

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John Mellencamp: Tour Dates

John Mellencamp: Tour Dates

Source: JamBase

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John Mellencamp John Mellencamp and his band are set to embark on the first leg of the “No Better Than This" Tour in late October following the August 17 release of his Rounder Records debut album, No Better Than This.

The tour, anticipated to continue through the spring of 2011, will kick off on October 29th in Bloomington, IN, where Mellencamp and his family make their home. It continues for four weeks bringing ...

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John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (2010)

John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (2010)

Source: Something Else!

By Nick DerisoWhile John Mellencamp continues a run of career-defining records, dating back to 2007's “Freedom's Road," best leave your dancing shoes in the closet.Producer T Bone Burnett cops to it, in the liner notes to “No Better Than This," set for release Aug. 17 on Rounder Records: “All those ghosts. All those spirits. This is a haunted record."It's not just that “No Better Than This" is an old-fashioned project done in an old-fashioned ...

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Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp

Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp

Source: Michael Ricci

Reporting from Lake Elsinore, Calif. — The great thing about minor league baseball is the intimate view it gives those who relish the game itself more than the race to the World Series or the high-priced superstars.

Bob Dylan offers much the same intimacy for music fans with another summer tour of minor league ballparks, accompanied this time byWillie Nelson, John Mellencamp and the Wiyos.

Their only Southern California stop was Wednesday night at Diamond Park, the home of the ...

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John Mellencamp at the Greek

John Mellencamp at the Greek

Source: Michael Ricci

John Mellencamp songs from his latest album are highlights of the show at the Greek.

John Mellencamp is ready for your bad news. At the Greek Theatre on Thursday, stories of hard times fueled his songs, just as they always have, with Mellencamp's raspy drawl calling on the rest of us to join his bittersweet jubilee. His 90-minute set began with “Pink Houses," his rousing hit tune from 1983, when he was already singing of strained optimism in the ...

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