But we had a very clear idea of what we wanted it to sound like, even before it was written, right through to the day it was mastered. His single "I Need a Lover" became a hit in Australia in 1978, and then a Top 30 track in the U.S. upon its release with the John Cougar album in 1979. He later studied with Jan Royce from the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Im talking to you about a record (Strictly a One-Eyed Jack) thats been done for about a year and a half, so Im already on to my new songs not as a job, just as they come. 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. John Mellencamp Featured Artists in this playlist Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band Tom Petty Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Steve Miller Band Bad Company Jackson Browne Bruce Springsteen View All Photo: Photo: Janet Macoska for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame PolyGram loved Nothin' Matters. "I told them, I have 600 songs published. In my own way I have tried to address these issues in song. John Mellencamp Community February 10, 2023, 08:08:31 am Welcome, Guest. If these works are any indication, plain painting can be extraordinarily eloquent.". In 2015, the show was further developed in London, although King and Mellencamp are no longer as actively involved: "Steve and I are taking a step back but if they called and said they needed a song, I would write one," Mellencamp told USA Today. And I read the script and I thought, 'Yeah, I get it but I don't want to take my shirt off.' ", "Every day that I walk up in my art studio and I complete a painting, I have something to show for my time", says Mellencamp, who sees himself painting through old age. "Some guy comes on and says, 'I don't know who I hate the most, John Mellencamp or Osama bin Laden.'"[78]. He's always been somewhat feisty, and his 'Authority Song' tells that story. 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. Mellencamp and Green's final collaboration was "Yours Forever", a song that was included on the soundtrack to the 2000 movie, The Perfect Storm. 8), "Check It Out" (No. Rolling Stone Magazine has called Mellencamp's band the best . Upcoming John Mellencamp tour dates, ticket links and venue information I love John a lot. Never has Mellencamp sounded so artful. Mellencamp has sold over 30 million albums in the US and over 60 million worldwide. Discovering Beckmann to me was like discovering Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan.". "The name of the new record is Orpheus Descending," Mellencamp said to the audience. The Farm Aid concerts remain an annual event and have raised over $60million for struggling family farmers as of 2022[update]. With a lo-fi setup that included portable amps and a battery-powered P.A. 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. Part of the No Depression mythology requires either a tragic early death or decades of unacknowledged masterpieces created during a life of grueling poverty. On the second leg of the tour in the summer of 2005, Fogerty co-headlined with Mellencamp at outdoor amphitheaters across the United States. 14), and "Rooty Toot Toot" (No. Working again with his band, including guitarists Mike Wanchic and Andy York, and engineer David Leonard at his home turf Belmont Mall Studios, Mellencamp adds that the next album likely won't . His latest album of original songs, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack, was released on January 21, 2022. The album was a quickly recorded collection of folk and blues covers originally done by artists such as Robert Johnson, Son House, Lucinda Williams and Hoagy Carmichael. I mean, we were really good. 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. [41], In two separate 2018 television interviews, Mellencamp teased a musical he is working on based on his 1982 No. John has made fiddles, hammer dulcimers, Autoharps (sic) and accordions [into] lead rock instruments on a par with electric guitar, bass, and drums, and he also brought what he calls 'a raw Appalachian' lyrical outlook to his songs. They involve expressiveness by means of exaggeration and distortion of line and color, in favor of a simplified style intended to carry an emotional impact. "[73], The film news website Deadline Hollywood, reported that the filmmakers of "The Legend of Jack and Diane," were inspired by Mellencamp's song "Jack & Diane," began production in Los Angeles in January 2022, and are in talks with Mellencamps team about music for the film.[74]. 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. 1970s - 2020s. 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. "I still don't think we should have to do it, but record companies can't spend money to promote records anymore, unless you're U2 or Madonna. Mellencamp confessed in a 2005 interview: "That [name] was put on me by some manager. John Mellencamp - Artist Details. 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. 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. 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. Mellencamp told iHeart Radio in January 2022 that Small Town was scheduled debut in Louisville in September 2022, but that didn't happen. 9), "Cherry Bomb" (No. I write a lot of sad songs, so it's like Sad Clowns & Hillbilliesthat's where it came from. But legend is often just another word for lie. Writes Sheets, "While Mellencamp has never been interested in whether he captures a faithful likeness of his subjects; he is after a kind of emotional realism and does follow certain "rules" of painting. The question is whether or not he can bring himself to tell the truth in time to save his own troubled sons, and whether the ghosts left behind by an act of violence will help him or tear the McCandless family apart forever. I wish I would've been able to enjoy it, but I was too busy slugging. I'm gonna come out and play with upright bass and cocktail [drum] kits and a lot of acoustic instruments. "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. "Do you guys know who Orpheus was? It included 50 oil and mixed-media paintings, including several never before seen by the public. "[84], Mellencamp lives five miles outside Bloomington, Indiana, on the shores of Lake Monroe,[85] but he also has a vacation home on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina. 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. "This is as naked a rock record as you're going to hear," Mellencamp said of Dance Naked in a 1994 Billboard magazine interview. "[67], In June 2019, WhyHunger bestowed Mellencamp with the ASCAP Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award, which shines a spotlight on artists who have proven their commitment to striving for social justice and creating real change in combating hunger worldwide. "We were on the road for a long time after Scarecrow, so we were together a lot as a band," Mellencamp said in a 1987 Creem Magazine feature. 2 in the fall of 1985 and spawned five Top 40 singles: "Lonely Ol' Night" and "Small Town" (both No. You'll get three different types of John Mellencamp, and you'll get a movie.". Writing and recording great songs that millions of people like and buy is not part of that sentimental pictureregardless of how comfortably the music itself sits within the genres parameters.". Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. We were better. The first leg of what was called the Words and Music Tour in the spring of 2005 featured Donovan playing in the middle of Mellencamp's set. [87], Mellencamp is a supporter of Indiana University and the Indiana Hoosiers, and received an honorary doctorate from the university in 2000. "George was a dreamer, and I was sorry to hear of his passing."[53]. 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". When we walked out onstage, there wasn't a band on Earth to touch us. That heart attack eventually forced him to cancel the last few weeks of the tour. So you'll get all the dialogue, all the sound effects, and all the songs sung by different people so you can follow the story. John Cougar Mellencamp . Kenny Aronoff is about as successful as a freelance drummer can get. On November 19, 1994 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Mellencamp performed an acoustic cover of Billy Joel's "Allentown" at a tribute event to Billy Joel. Also Known As. According to Mellencamp, "German painting remains the basic foundation for what I do same as folk music is the foundation of my songs. "Everything is a possible song. 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. "Initially, I wanted to make a record that barely had drums on it. And they gave me this script called Thelma & Louise and they said, 'The guy wrote the part with you in mind, John, you really gotta do this part.' Mellencamp has won one Grammy Award (Best Male Rock Performer for "Hurts So Good" in 1983) and been nominated for 12 others. T Bone Burnett is going to come out to Indiana sometime in early January and we're gonna go into the studio for however long it takes to make a new album. Toward the end, I didn't even go to the studio. The tour will mark the return of violinist Lisa Germano to Mellencamp's band. 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. The albums second single, "Chasing Rainbows", was released on December 10, 2021. He signed with Starbucks' Hear Music label to distribute the album and said, "they think it's a fucking masterpiece". In the fall of 2015, a showing of Mellencamp's artwork, titled "John Mellencamp: The Isolation of Mister", ran at the ACA Galleries in New York City. "I had planned to have the record out now but I haven't finished. "I take no credit for that record. Mellencamp also tried to control how his band members cut loose. 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. John Cougar. In 1982 Michael Porcaro joined as bassist. "[76], The Alliance Theatre described the show as a "Southern Gothic musical fraught with mystery, tragedy and ghosts of the past.". 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I don't think it's a good idea, and I sure don't advocate it, but I'm not going to judge people. At one point, The Lonesome Jubilee was supposed to be a double album, but at least 10 of the songs I'd written just didn't stick together with the idea and the sound we had in mind. He is known for his catchy brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. During this time he abused drugs and alcohol, stating in a 1986 Rolling Stone interview, "When I was high on pot, it affected me so drastically that when I was in college there were times when I wouldn't get off the couch. Mellencamp has also stated that he's already working on the follow-up to Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. People are scared, and people are angry. Submit Corrections . 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Following the delivery of his address, Indiana University bestowed upon him an honorary Doctorate of Musical Arts. 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. John J. Mellencamp[1] (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American singer-songwriter. "[16] In his second painting exhibition, at the Churchman-Fehsenfeld Gallery in Indianapolis in 1990, Mellencamp's portraits were described as always having sad facial expressions and conveying "the same disillusionment found in his musical anthems about the nation's heartland and farm crisis. He was born with spina bifida, for which he had corrective surgery as an infant. ! So thats encouraging.[49], Some of the songs that may be on Mellencamp's next album are leftovers from Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. Mellencamp formed his first band, Crepe Soul, at the age of 14. I'm taking heat because no one's ever done this before. Fogerty would join Mellencamp for duets on Fogerty's Creedence Clearwater Revival hit "Green River" and Mellencamp's "Rain on the Scarecrow". You can make this much money! Blah, blah, blah. 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'. In August 2000, Mellencamp played a series of unannounced free concerts in major cities on the East Coast and in the Midwest as a way of giving back to fans who had supported him the previous 24 years. Explore John Mellencamp's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. Each member of the band has many years of not only experience, but has a heart to deliver the best possible experience. "I was up to 80 cigarettes a day," Mellencamp told the Boston Herald in September 1996 about the habits that led to his heart malfunction two years beforehand. Please login or register . "[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. In an "Open Letter to America" on his website, Mellencamp stated: The Governor of California was removed from office based on finance troubles. You know it, and I know it. On albums like Scarecrow (1985), The Lonesome Jubilee (1987) and Big Daddy (1989), Mellencamp helped pioneer the sound of alternative country or No Depression, music that combines the truth-telling force of hard-core country with the instrumental attack of rock & roll. Mellencamp performed solo acoustic renditions of Seeger and Lee Hays' "If I Had a Hammer" and his own "A Ride Back Home.". He did everything," said Ryan, Mellencamp's on-again, off-again girlfriend. Mellencamp recorded the album using a 1955 Ampex portable recording machine and only one microphone, requiring all the musicians to gather together around the mic. Updated: Oct 16, 2018 / 03:51 PM EDT. "It's very rock 'n' roll", Mellencamp said of Whenever We Wanted: "I just wanted to get back to the basics. Merlis also noted that the same songs had been used, with Mellencamp's approval, by John Edwards's campaign; in response, the McCain campaign ceased using the songs.[81]. There's no orchestra, just two twangy acoustic guitars, an accordion, and a fiddle. [4], Mellencamp attended Vincennes University, a two-year college in Vincennes, Indiana, starting in 1972. New Releases . [100], In April 2020, it was reported that Mellencamp has been dating skincare expert Jamie Sherrill since the beginning of the year. So Brad Pitt took his shirt off and look what happened to Brad Pitt. Mellencamp came to New York in the mid-1970s with the intention of studying painting if his music career aspirations didn't pan out. 46. [46], In May 2021, Mellencamp revealed that he recently finished the album and that Bruce Springsteen would make a guest appearance on the project. 7 on the Billboard 200 the week of August 2, 2008. Columbia Records executives, who were in attendance at the benefit shows, were so impressed with Mellencamp's live renditions of "Stones in My Passway" that they convinced him to record an album of vintage American songs, which ultimately became Trouble No More. The 76-stop run is set to kick off with a two-night stand in . 14 single "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)" (Mellencamp's last Top 40 hit) and "Just Another Day", which peaked at No. I ain't gonna do it. A lot of my songs weren't that great, but they were good enough. He's played with the likes of John Mellencamp, Paul McCartney, Sting, Bon Jovi, Elton John, The Smashing Pumpkins, MeatloafThe list goes . I think we came up with a pretty timeless sounding album", Mellencamp told his online radio station in late 2006. Mellencamp, who co-headlined 11 shows in the summer of 2010 with Bob Dylan, launched the No Better Than This theater tour on October 29, 2010, in Bloomington, Indiana. In November 2010, Mellencamp told the Chicago Tribune: T Bone and I and Stephen King are working on a musical. 10 on the Billboard 200, becoming the 10th Top 10 album of his career. [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. Joe McCandless knows what really happened; he saw it all. "[10], Scarecrow was the first album Mellencamp recorded at his own recording studio, jokingly dubbed "Belmont Mall", located in Belmont, Indiana and built in 1984. Album Rock Heartland Rock Roots Rock Contemporary Pop/Rock Contemporary Folk Contemporary Singer/Songwriter Rock & Roll Bar Band Hard Rock. Mellencamp sang the gospel song "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" at White's funeral on July 2, 2002. This is rock music that tells the truth on both its composer and the culture he's observing.[55]. Mellencamp has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. When I objected to it, he said, 'Well, either you're going to go for it, or we're not going to put the record out.' Mellencamp released Easy Targetthe first single from Sad Clowns & Hillbillies and a "reflection on the state of our country" on January 19, 2017, which was the eve of the 2017 Presidential Inauguration. [6], After 18 months of traveling between Indiana and New York City in 1974 and 1975, Mellencamp found someone receptive to his music and image in Tony DeFries of MainMan Management. 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. On June 12, 2019, Republic Records, Federal Films and Universal Music Theatricals announced that the musical is officially in development. There are no smiles on the faces of Mellencamp's painted figures. The ASCAP Founders Award goes to pioneering ASCAP songwriters who have made exceptional contributions to music by inspiring and influencing their fellow music creators. And it doesn't matter if they hear it on a jukebox, in the local gin mill, or in a goddamn truck commercial because they ain't gonna hear it on the radio any more. I sang a little bit on his record. In 2005, Mellencamp toured with Donovan and John Fogerty. In 1988, Rolling Stone magazine called this version of Mellencamp's band "one of the most powerful and versatile live bands ever assembled." [101] People Magazine confirmed in January 2021 that Mellencamp and Sherrill have broken up. And it don't matter who you care to name U2, The Rolling Stones, anybody. A CD/DVD deluxe edition, featuring the dialog, soundtrack, handwritten lyrics and a mini-documentary about the making of the musical, was released on June 4, 2013. "Wild Night" became Mellencamp's biggest hit in years, peaking at No. 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. Mellencamp also performed "Our Country" at a rally for Hillary Clinton in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 3, 2008, although he never came out in support of either Obama or Clinton during the primaries. He is of Dutch ancestry. The video, which included a warning that it might be seen as "inappropriate for some viewers", featured footage of protesters and police clashing violently in 2020 and 1968. [43] Springsteen himself provided additional details on his collaboration with Mellencamp on his Sirius XM radio station on June 10, 2021, saying: "I worked on three songs on Johns album and I spent some time in Indiana with him. in the U.S.A.", "Paper in Fire", and "Cherry Bomb". On February 27, 2020, Mellencamp's official social media accounts confirmed that he was currently recording an album at his Belmont Mall recording studio. We have gone too far with the shameful killing and genocidefrom the Native Americans to where we find ourselves today. Mellencamp embarked on the Cuttin' Heads Tour in the summer of 2001, before the album was even released. Urban has covered numerous Mellencamp songs in his concerts over the years, including "Hurts So Good", "Jack and Diane", "Authority Song", and "Rumble Seat". His discovery of early 20th-century modernists including Chaim Soutine, Walt Kuhn, and particularly the German Expressionists Otto Dix and Max Beckmann pointed the way toward a visceral, pared-down approach to portraiture. Mellencamp began working on a musical with horror author Stephen King, entitled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, in 2000. "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. (T Bone) produced. The musical toured 20 U.S. cities as a "radio play" in the fall of 2013 and toured 18 more cities across the U.S. in the fall of 2014. Mellencamp is also one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois, to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Mainstream Rock chart, "Q: I've seen John's name in print as both "John Cougar Mellencamp" and "John Little Cougar Mellencamp" and "lil 'John Cougar Mellencat". I wrote it just for this room. ", A full-color 48-page catalogue with the aforementioned essay by Sheets accompanied the exhibition. (The song would later be included, in a re-recorded version, on Mellencamp's 2017 album Sad Clowns & Hillbillies.) The tracks for the album were recorded at historic locations, such as the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia as well as at the Sun Studio in Memphis and the Sheraton Gunter Hotel in San Antonio where blues pioneer Robert Johnson recorded "Sweet Home Chicago" and "Crossroad Blues". Meanwhile, the piano-heavy "Seeing You Around" has the sound of a 1940s standard (the movie takes place during World War II) and is made all the more authentically '40s-sounding by Redbone's gruff, baritone vocals. The album, which Mellencamp called at the time the most "earthy" record he'd ever made, is also the last to feature the "Cougar" moniker. [3] On August 30, 2018, Mellencamp was bestowed with the Woody Guthrie Prize in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ", 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. 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. After his divorce from Irwin, Mellencamp began dating actress Meg Ryan. Right now, Elvis Costello, Meg Ryan, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey are doing table readings like an old radio play. Mellencamp drew interest from Rod Stewart's manager, Billy Gaff, after parting ways with DeFries and was signed onto the small Riva Records label. Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town is featured in the video. Joan Baez is a 66-year-old woman and the sweetest gal in the world.[80]. 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