Said Mellencamp of his band during the 1987-88 Lonesome Jubilee Tour: "Just then, we were the best band in the world, bar none. It started out like 'Look, lets go back and do an old country religious record. ), The early 21st century also found Mellencamp teaming up with artists such as Chuck D and India.Arie to deliver his second Columbia album, Cuttin' Heads and the single "Peaceful World". In a September 2020 interview, Mellencamp guitarist Andy York said that 10 songs have already been recorded and mixed for the album, but a planned final session in April 2020 to complete the project was scuttled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They need to know that somewhere out there somebody feels the way that they do in the small towns and in the big cities. During his induction speech for Mellencamp, Joel said:[69]. So that's where he came up with that name. That same month he released the two-disc career hits retrospective Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits, which contained 35 of his radio singles (including all 22 of his Top 40 hits) along with two new tunes, "Walk Tall" and "Thank You" both produced by Babyface but written by Mellencamp. The first album recorded under his new name John Cougar Mellencamp was 1983's Uh-Huh, a Top-10 album that spawned the Top 10 singles "Pink Houses" and "Crumblin' Down" as well as the No. Rolling Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis said: Mellencamp has created an important body of work that has earned him both critical regard and an enormous audience. I said to John, 'I didn't walk away thinking: I want to do that. And I said, 'Well, I am.' He is known for his catchy brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Orpheus Descending will be released in February 2023. Mellencamp, who works in a very different, very personal idiom, makes plainspoken paintings, he says, because he's a plainspoken man. Following the delivery of his address, Indiana University bestowed upon him an honorary Doctorate of Musical Arts. At Gaff's request, Mellencamp moved to London, England, for nearly a year to record, promote, and tour behind 1978's A Biography. [33] "We wrote a couple of songs together, and she wrote some and I wrote some," Mellencamp told USA Today of the material on Sad Clowns & Hillbillies. Mellencamp's late mother, Marilyn, loved to paint landscapes and flowers, and her son fell in love with both art and music at an early age. He had his first major museum exhibition, Nothing Like I Planned, at Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, from April 12 through June 10, 2012. John Cougar. Concerts. Never has Mellencamp sounded so artful. [46], In May 2021, Mellencamp revealed that he recently finished the album and that Bruce Springsteen would make a guest appearance on the project. They don't care how they hear it as long as they hear it good and loud and clear the way you've always been saying it all along. In 1980, Mellencamp returned with the Steve Cropper-produced Nothin' Matters and What If It Did, which yielded two Top 40 singles "This Time" (No. Mellencamp sees Scarecrow as the start of the alternative country genre: "I think I invented that whole 'No Depression' thing with the Scarecrow album, though I don't get the credit," he told Classic Rock magazine in October 2008.[11]. McCain's campaign responded by pulling the songs from their playlist. 61) along with the popular album tracks "Hard Times for an Honest Man" and "The Real Life", both of which cracked the top 10 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. 21) and "Rumble Seat" (No. I'm sitting there listening to it and thinking, "Did Rosanne Cash just kill that song or what!" They stare at the viewer or off into space with eyes both tough and vulnerable, projecting intensity akin to Beckmann's self-portraits with his sad, glowering eyes. He's played with the likes of John Mellencamp, Paul McCartney, Sting, Bon Jovi, Elton John, The Smashing Pumpkins, MeatloafThe list goes . in a little town called Selma. Now, in the past, it was always 'Let's make it up as we go along' and we did make some of The Lonesome Jubilee up as we went along. To anybody who's said thank you to me, I say, 'You're very nice, but, really, thank you. Strictly a One-Eyed Jack was released on January 21, 2022. That's when I was believe it or not, I used to not be as ugly as I am now. It was just a terrible lifestyle. John's work is beautifully executed with incredibly fascinating studies. A former keyboardist. ", "John Mellencamp, Alan Jackson, Kool & the Gang Lead 2018 Songwriters Hall of Fame Class", "John Mellencamp: Biography on Yahoo! "[24] A short time later, Mellencamp told Rolling Stone: "I've got a notebook with 85 new songs that I've written for my next record. I wrote all the songs, 17 songs. I went to New York and everybody said, 'You sound like a hillbilly.' A video for the song was filmed in Savannah, Georgia on June 9, 2008. [86] In January 2018, Mellencamp purchased an 1,800-square-foot (170m2) loft in the Soho district of New York City for $2.3 million that he is using as an art studio. 1 on Billboard's Blues Album charts. Kenny Aronoff is about as successful as a freelance drummer can get. Mellencamp co-wrote several of his best-known songs with his childhood friend George Green who, like Mellencamp, was born and raised in Seymour, Indiana. There's no orchestra, just two twangy acoustic guitars, an accordion, and a fiddle. During the pandemic, Mellencamp wrote at least 15 songs. Said Carter in 2015: "The way John Mellencamp and I met was he invited me to come and sing this song he had written for the movie that Meg Ryan has coming out called Ithaca. His latest album of original songs, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack, was released on January 21, 2022. Hell, as long as you sell a few records and the record company isn't putting a lot of money into promotion, you're making money for 'em and that's all they care about. Mellencamp rose to fame in the 1980s while "honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style" that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles, including "Hurts So Good", "Jack & Diane", "Crumblin' Down", "Pink Houses", "Lonely Ol' Night", "Small Town", "R.O.C.K. [52] Mellencamp will launch a 76-date tour in 2023 called "Live and in Person" that will begin February 5 in Bloomington, Indiana and end on June 24 in South Bend, Indiana. 14 single "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)" (Mellencamp's last Top 40 hit) and "Just Another Day", which peaked at No. Mellencamp confessed in a 2005 interview: "That [name] was put on me by some manager. [8] Mellencamp reluctantly agreed, but the album was a commercial failure, selling only 12,000 copies. 19. [75] Production on the musical's recorded soundtrack began on June 15, 2009, when T Bone Burnett, who served as the project's musical producer, began laying down tracks in Los Angeles for the songs Mellencamp wrote for the project. You as a listener will be awe-struck as you hear the lead singer, KC aka Casey Corrigan, take on the same powerful, heartaching voice as John Cougar Mellencamp and Bryan Adams. Farm Aid concerts have remained an annual event over the past 37 years, and as of 2022[update] the organization has raised over $60million. And I read the script and I thought, 'Yeah, I get it but I don't want to take my shirt off.' He wrote about half of it after I read him the script, and then the next half after he saw the movie. Rolling Stone Magazine has called Mellencamp's band the best . The documentary is narrated by Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey, who is an avowed Mellencamp fan.[46]. Mellencamp's interest in painting began in early life but was superseded in the 1980s by his skyrocketing musical career. 2 and 16 weeks in the top 10, and "Jack & Diane", which was a No. Prior to the 198586 Scarecrow Tour, during which he covered some of the same 1960s rock and soul songs he and his band rehearsed prior to the recording of Scarecrow, Mellencamp added fiddle player Lisa Germano to his band. [3] On August 30, 2018, Mellencamp was bestowed with the Woody Guthrie Prize in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Green contributed lyrics to numerous Mellencamp radio hits and classic album tracks, including "Human Wheels", "Minutes to Memories", "Hurts So Good", "Crumblin' Down", "Rain on the Scarecrow", "Your Life is Now", and "Key West Intermezzo", in addition to songs recorded by Barbra Streisand, Hall & Oates, Jude Cole, Ricky Skaggs, Sue Medley, The Oak Ridge Boys, Percy Sledge, and Carla Olson. Happy Go Lucky spawned the No. Mellencamp told iHeart Radio in January 2022 that Small Town was scheduled debut in Louisville in September 2022, but that didn't happen. Me and the guys in the band thought we were finished, anyway. I've recorded 10 and I have 17 more to do and I'll pick 10 of the 27 songs". In this article, Troye talks about several different aspects of being in John's band. It cost $280,000, do you believe that? Fogerty would join Mellencamp for duets on Fogerty's Creedence Clearwater Revival hit "Green River" and Mellencamp's "Rain on the Scarecrow". Mellencamp participated in a tribute concert for Pete Seeger's 90th birthday on May 3, 2009, at Madison Square Garden in New York City which raised funds for an environmental organization founded by Seeger to preserve and protect the Hudson River. Mellencamp stated in 2021 that he had booked 80 shows for 2022, but the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ultimately caused him to cancel his 2022 Strictly a One-Eyed Jack tour and push it until 2023. "[25], In January 2014, Mellencamp began recording the project, which would ultimately be titled Plain Spoken and would become his 20th album of original material and 22nd studio album overall. [65], On September 9, 2010, Mellencamp received the Americana Lifetime Achievement Award in Nashville. While he was on tour, Mellencamp recorded a new album titled No Better Than This that was again produced by T Bone Burnett. "In his painting, he speaks to the voice of the heartland which is about doing the right thing and about equality and humanity and about the dignity of the farmer and the laborer. Please login or register . Submit Corrections . 10 on the Billboard 200, becoming the 10th Top 10 album of his career. I'm through digging a ditch.". John Cougar Mellencamp AKA John Mellencamp Born: 7-Oct - 1951 Birthplace: Seymour, IN Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Singer/Songwriter Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: Jack and Diane The album was released on September 23, 2014. Mellencamp released Freedom's Road, his first album of original material in over five years, on January 23, 2007. [71], In a May 6, 2016, Q&A after a screening of the movie at Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival, Ryan said: "The music is so beautiful. Lisa Ruth Germano (born June 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Indiana. And what a group of names they were: John Mellencamp, Dwight Yoakam, Joe Ely, James McMurtry, and John Prine made up the Buzzin' Cousins, Mellencamp's lark of an answer to the Travelin'. But I want to do it this way, and if I can't do what I want at this point, I'm not going to do it. He later studied with Jan Royce from the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Joe McCandless knows what really happened; he saw it all. He was born with spina bifida, for which he had corrective surgery as an infant. ", Mellencamp told VH1 that he was originally offered the Brad Pitt role in Thelma and Louise: "You know they used to want me to be an actor all the time and I used to get more movie role offers. [4], Mellencamp attended Vincennes University, a two-year college in Vincennes, Indiana, starting in 1972. It was the most expensive record I ever made. Army officials barred Baez from performing, however. Art writer Doug McClemont, in a review for Art Space, stated: "Mellencamp paints handsomely grotesque portraits in oil that are as solemn and stirring as his hit songs are catchy and inspirational. [27], Outside of the Plain Spoken Tour, Mellencamp's most noteworthy live performance in 2015 came on February 6, when he paid tribute to Bob Dylan at the annual MusiCares Person of the Year event by performing a piano-and-vocal rendition of "Highway 61 Revisited" (the piano was played by Troye Kinnett from Mellencamp's band). "[29] Mellencamp said Dylan's endorsement was worth more than 10 Grammys.[30]. I'll play for, like, 40 minutes that way. Mike Wanchic Mike Wanchic, John's long time guitarist, recently completed production on singer/songwriter Stoll Vaughan's latest album The Conversation. With credits that read like a top-40 list, Aronoff has cemented himself as a first-call drummer in the business of making gold records. The CD will come out ahead of time. As of 2018, she has released thirteen albums. He resumed recording on the project in March 2021, with plans to cut at least some of the 17 songs he wrote while in quarantine in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Members Of John's Band? [18], In September 1996, the experimental album Mr. We had a lot of fun together when we were kids. Mellencamp's latest painting exhibition, titled Life, Death, Love, and Freedom (named in honor of his critically acclaimed 2008 album's 10th anniversary), was on display at the ACA Galleries from April 26 through June 2, 2018. "Like when you're married, when you're friends with somebody for a long time, the more things build up the more things can go wrong," Mellencamp said in the liner notes to his 2010 box set, On the Rural Route 7609. [3], Mellencamp was born in Seymour, Indiana, on October 7, 1951. "When the song first came out I was in the car one day and we were driving to the airport and I had my kids with me and a radio station was playing 'To Washington' and having callers call in", Mellencamp said. Mellencamp sang the gospel song "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" at White's funeral on July 2, 2002. John Cougar Mellencamp . With some commercial success under his belt, Mellencamp had enough clout to force the record company to add his real surname, Mellencamp, to his stage moniker. He opened each show on this tour with a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" and also played a solo acoustic version of the Cuttin' Heads track "Women Seem" at each show. And it don't matter who you care to name U2, The Rolling Stones, anybody. "I take no credit for that record. 1 hit "Jack & Diane". ", In 1982, Mellencamp released his breakthrough album, American Fool, which contained the singles "Hurts So Good", an uptempo rock tune that spent four weeks at No. ", In 1993, he released Human Wheels, and the title track peaked at No. Mellencamp currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Mellencamp has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. The ASCAP Founders Award goes to pioneering ASCAP songwriters who have made exceptional contributions to music by inspiring and influencing their fellow music creators. "Musicians are out of work," Clark says . His portraiture evolved to a personal style that some critics describe as similar to the dark and shadowy paintings of the German Expressionists. John Mellencamp (born 7 October 1951 in Seymour, Indiana) is an American singer and a songwriter, known for a long and successful recording and performing career highlighted by a series of 1980s hits, including "Jack & Diane", and by his role in the Farm Aid charity event. Mellencamp played for over two hours and included 24 songs in his setlist on the tour. Part of the No Depression mythology requires either a tragic early death or decades of unacknowledged masterpieces created during a life of grueling poverty. During the recording of Uh-Huh, Mellencamp's backing band settled on the lineup it retained for the next several albums: Kenny Aronoff on drums and percussion, Larry Crane and Mike Wanchic on guitars, Toby Myers on bass and John Cascella on keyboards. The record company thought it would bomb, but I think the reason it took off was not that the songs were better than my others but people liked the sound of it, the 'bam-bam-bam' drums. Mellencamp has made several forays into acting over the years, appearing in four films: Falling from Grace (which he also directed) (1992), Madison (2005, narration only), After Image (2001), and Lone Star State of Mind (2002). Pat Benatar recorded "I Need a Lover" on her debut album In the Heat of the Night. Throughout his life, however, Mellencamp has continued to seriously explore painting. I think we came up with a pretty timeless sounding album", Mellencamp told his online radio station in late 2006. Mellencamp and Green had a falling out in the early 2000s, and Green ultimately moved from Bloomington, Indiana to Taos, New Mexico in 2001. Freedom's Road peaked at No. [93] It was reported that Mellencamp and Ryan broke up in the middle of 2014 after dating for over three years. Only in America, and I mean only, in America, can 21 people be murdered and a week later be buried and forgotten, with a flimsy little thumbnail, a vague notion of some sort of gun control law laying on the senators' desks. We were better. Live at the Royal, which peaked at No. Mellencamp released a compilation album of cover songs titled Other People's Stuff on December 7, 2018. I'm taking heat because no one's ever done this before. Although Mellencamp had always been outspoken and adamant about not selling any of his songs to corporations to use in commercials, he changed his stance and let Chevrolet use "Our Country" in Chevy Silverado TV commercials that began airing in late September 2006. Now, we weren't playing the best songs in the world. [21], On July 8, 2014, Mellencamp released a new live album called Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall without any advance notice. "To me, this record is very urban," Mellencamp told Billboard magazine of Human Wheels in the summer of 1993. So that was what I had to do but I thought the name was pretty silly."[9]. "Initially, I wanted to make a record that barely had drums on it. In 1982 Michael Porcaro joined as bassist. But that's a good thing. [96][97], In July 2017, it was reported that Mellencamp and Ryan had reunited and were dating again. One reviewer called the opening gig of the European leg of the tour "maybe the best rock-performance ever in Denmark. [34] Mellencamp and Carter debuted two songs from the album, "Indigo Sunset" and "My Soul's Got Wings", during Mellencamp's concert in Tulsa on April 1, 2016 (Carter served as the opening act for the show). "George was a dreamer, and I was sorry to hear of his passing."[53]. Born . "[47], Mellencamp released a CD and documentary of his 2000 Good Samaritan Tour, which consisted of free lunchtime concerts in city parks, on August 27, 2021. 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[7] DeFries insisted that Mellencamp's first album, Chestnut Street Incident, a collection of covers and a handful of original songs, be released under the stage name Johnny Cougar, insisting that the bumpy German name "Mellencamp" was too hard to market. You can't be 22 years old and had two dates and understand that album. They played football in a regular game Mellencamp called the MFL for "Mellencamp Football League," although Aronoff said the other musicians called it the "Mandatory Football League" because they had to play. If you could imagine Tennessee Williams meets Stephen King. Which is correct? Ghost Brothers of Darkland County received mixed reviews upon its initial run in Atlanta. Then the band will leave and it'll just be me with an acoustic guitar for 40 minutes, and then there'll be 40 minutes of rock 'n' roll. It wasn't like the title was made up it wasn't supposed to be punky or cocky like some people thought. Discovering Beckmann to me was like discovering Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan.". [2] Early life [ edit] The worst thing was that I could have gone on making records like that for hundreds of years. Surely you can find 12-to-15 songs that will work."[43]. [57], Mellencamp's musical style has been described as rock,[55][58] heartland rock,[59] roots rock,[55][60] and folk rock. [6] During this period, Mellencamp, who had given up drugs and alcohol before graduating from college, decided to pursue a career in music and traveled to New York City in an attempt to land a record contract. Mellencamp sang "Our Country" to open Game 2 of the 2006 World Series, and the song was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance category, but lost to Bruce Springsteen's "Radio Nowhere". But in the years that followed, the family has endured the worst of times. He's a Grammy-winner and the recipient of numerous awards including The Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck Awards, ASCAP Foundation's Champion Award and their highest honor the Founders Award, the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting and . Mellencamp took part in two Woody Guthrie tribute concerts in 2012 as part of a year-long celebration surrounding the 100-year anniversary of the folk icon's birth. On December 30, 2010, Mellencamp announced that he and Irwin had separated after 18 years of marriage. Mellencamp also tried to control how his band members cut loose. I ain't gonna do it. But some of those songs we didnt record were pretty good, too.[49], In the summer of 2022, Mellencamp confirmed through his social media channels that he is, indeed, working on the follow-up to Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. Active. Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. [100], In April 2020, it was reported that Mellencamp has been dating skincare expert Jamie Sherrill since the beginning of the year. Trouble No More was released in 2003, dedicated to Mellencamp's friend Timothy White, and spent several weeks at No. We had Kris Kristofferson, Neko Case, Elvis Costello, Taj Mahal, all singing different characters' roles. No Better Than This is the first mono-only release to make the top 10 since James Brown's Pure Dynamite! 1:07. But legend is often just another word for lie. Band Member Spotlight - Jon E. Gee. John Mellencamp's former keyboardist Eric Franklin Rosser pleads guilty after being named the first-ever child pornography suspect placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list. [56], Johnny Cash called Mellencamp "one of the 10 best songwriters" in music. I was totally unaware of it until it showed up on the album jacket. In 1999, Mellencamp covered his own songs as well as those by Bob Dylan and the Drifters for his album Rough Harvest (recorded in 1997), one of two albums he owed Mercury Records to fulfill his contract (the other was The Best That I Could Do, a best-of collection). (The song would later be included, in a re-recorded version, on Mellencamp's 2017 album Sad Clowns & Hillbillies.) ", On August 28, 2011, Green died in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 59 after losing a battle with a rapid-forming small cell lung cancer. In addition, he holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven. "[103], Mellencamp had a minor heart attack after a show at Jones Beach in New York on August 8, 1994, that eventually forced him to cancel the last few weeks of his Dance Naked tour. 1990 - Larry Crane on Collaborating with John Mellencamp, Going Solo TheClassicSports 32.3K subscribers 6.8K views 6 years ago This interview was (I'm betting) done for cable access TV in. "Think about it: Isn't that where music started? His emotionally authentic, straightforward rock n' roll reflects his upbringing in the Heartland, combining pop, country, and folk to create poetic grooves that you can also jam out to on a bar's jukebox. "I see sadness in the world," Mellencamp says. According to a February 8, 2008, Associated Press report, Mellencamp's camp asked that the campaign for presidential candidate Sen. John McCain stop using his songs, including "Our Country" and "Pink Houses", during their campaign events. News: Visit Mellencamp.com's NEWS section for all of the latest updates! "His infectious melodies and compassionate lyrics, wrapped in workingman's rock, crystallize life's joys and struggles and illuminate the human condition. 8), "Check It Out" (No. So they were eliminated, and it didnt take me long to make that decision. In an "Open Letter to America" on his website, Mellencamp stated: The Governor of California was removed from office based on finance troubles. Related Blog Posts. in the U.S.A.", "Paper in Fire", and "Cherry Bomb". Noted art writer Hilarie M. Sheets, a contributing editor to ARTnews who writes regularly for The New York Times, called Mellencamp "a natural storyteller" in a 2012 essay she wrote about his artwork. In 1980, Mellencamp turned down the lead role in the movie The Idolmaker because, as he told the Toledo Blade in 1983, "I was afraid that if I made too much money, I'd have no motivation to make records anymore. 1970s - 2020s. Happy Go Lucky, which was produced by Junior Vasquez, was released to critical acclaim. Happy Go Lucky and a subsequent four-month tour from March to July 1997 to promote it, Mellencamp signed a four-album deal with Columbia Records, although he wound up making only three albums for the label. It may be the first-ever musical written by men for men. It's one of the better songs of the last few years, actually. Along with the song and video Mellencamp released the statement that read "For my entire life I have seen the mistreatment of minorities in our country. They're recording the dialogue now and we're putting out a record of the entire show before it comes out. [45], In an extensive update on his website, Mellencamp said one of the songs he wrote record is called "I Always Lie to Strangers", and he shared a one-minute snippet of it on February 3, 2021. "Indigo Sunset" was written by both Mellencamp and Carter, while Mellencamp wrote the music to "My Soul's Got Wings", giving life to a previously unheard lyric written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie. 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