All the music has been recorded. John Cougar. Mellencamp released a compilation album of cover songs titled Other People's Stuff on December 7, 2018. When the band formed in Los Angeles in 1977, Jeff Porcaro, the eldest of three brothers, was the drummer and de facto leader; Steve, the youngest, played keyboards. [21], On July 8, 2014, Mellencamp released a new live album called Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall without any advance notice. 48 among the 100 best singles of the year. "It's been fascinating to me how urban records use rhythm and electronics, and it's terribly challenging to make that work in the context of a rock band", Mellencamp told Billboard magazine in 1996. 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. 21) and "Rumble Seat" (No. We have gone too far with the shameful killing and genocidefrom the Native Americans to where we find ourselves today. 1:07. I ain't lying. Mellencamp wrote over 30 songs for the record (only 13 made the final cut), and he wrote one song specifically for Room 414 at the Gunter Hotel Mellencamp told the San Antonio Express-News: "It's called 'Right Behind Me'. "[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. 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 News: Visit Mellencamp.com's NEWS section for all of the latest updates! 17). Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town is featured in the video. He performed "Down by the River" on January 29, 2010, in Los Angeles in tribute to Neil Young, who was honored at the 20th annual MusiCares Person of the Year gala. Though John Mellencamp has seen other band members, and wives, and personnel come and go, Wanchic, a Lexington, Kentucky-raised multi-instrumentalist and harmony vocalist, has been there through . [22] Two songs performed at the 2003 Town Hall concert, the 1962 Skeeter Davis hit "The End of the World" and the traditional folk song "House of the Rising Sun", did not make the final track list despite the album's official press release stating that the CD and digital versions "feature the complete 15-song concert. [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. 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[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. Joan Baez is a 66-year-old woman and the sweetest gal in the world.[80]. 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]. He intended for Freedom's Road to have a 1960s rock sound while still remaining contemporary, and he feels that goal was achieved. [31][32] Mellencamp and Carter's duets album, titled Sad Clowns & Hillbillies, was released on April 28, 2017. Mellencamp's interest in painting began in early life but was superseded in the 1980s by his skyrocketing musical career. Discovering Beckmann to me was like discovering Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan.". I said to John, 'I didn't walk away thinking: I want to do that. You know it, and I know it. Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008,[2] followed by an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. [88][89] He donated $1.5 million to the school to build an indoor athletics training facility, which was named John Mellencamp Pavilion. The switch in labels coincided with Dane Clark replacing Aronoff on drums. We had a lot of fun together when we were kids. "Wild Night" became Mellencamp's biggest hit in years, peaking at No. system, Mellencamp, armed with an acoustic guitar and accompanied only by an accordionist and a violist, dubbed the jaunt "Live in the Streets: The Good Samaritan Tour". 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. 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. 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. [96][97], In July 2017, it was reported that Mellencamp and Ryan had reunited and were dating again. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer brought his North American tour . It was just a terrible lifestyle. Mellencamp released Freedom's Road, his first album of original material in over five years, on January 23, 2007. No Better Than This was released on August 17, 2010, and peaked at No. I wrote it just for this room. 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). 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. "To be real honest, there's three good songs on that record, and the rest is just sort of filler," Mellencamp told Creem Magazine of American Fool in 1984. in the U.S.A. (A Salute to '60s Rock), Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits, Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall, List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. "[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. [83], In August 2020, Mellencamp released "A Pawn in the White Man's Game" to his website along with a video to YouTube. "We wanted to make sure that it had the same feeling of some of the great songs from the '60s but also had the message of today and had the backbeat of today. She harmonizes with Mellencamp on "My Sweet Love" and provides background vocals to three other songs on Life, Death, Love and Freedom, which became the ninth Top 10 album of Mellencamp's career when it debuted at No. 46. [10], "Learning those songs did a lot of positive things," Mellencamp explained to Creem writer Bill Holdship. Troye Kinnett grew up near Muncie, Ind. 41 on the Hot 100 in the summer of 1994. In December 2015, Mellencamp began recording a duets album with Carlene Carter, who was his opening act for all shows on the Plain Spoken Tour and would join Mellencamp for two songs during his set. "I told them, I have 600 songs published. Mellencamp and Green had a falling out in the early 2000s, and Green ultimately moved from Bloomington, Indiana to Taos, New Mexico in 2001. He doesn't see it as a precious or rarified activity but rather about staying productive, keeping his mind engaged, making something out of nothing. And I said, 'Well, I am.' and "Another Sunny Day 12/25", in addition to the title track, which hit No. [56], Johnny Cash called Mellencamp "one of the 10 best songwriters" in music. 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John Mellencamp, Maggie Rogers, Tank & the Bangas: music in New Orleans for week of Feb. 23 Comedian Katt Williams is also in town this week 1 of 7 John Mellencamp performs at the 17th. The album's first single was "My Sweet Love". The documentary is narrated by Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey, who is an avowed Mellencamp fan.[46]. Submit Corrections. [40] He began a 39-date theater tour in February 2019, dubbed "The John Mellencamp Show", that concluded April 30, 2019, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Hurts So Good" went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 25th Grammys. On his 2007 album, Freedom's Road, Mellencamp included a hidden track called "Rodeo Clown", which was a direct reference to George W. Bush ("The bloody red eyes of the rodeo clown"). In 1985, Mellencamp released Scarecrow, which peaked at No. Following the delivery of his address, Indiana University bestowed upon him an honorary Doctorate of Musical Arts. Background "Cherry Bomb" features a female voice (Mellencamp background singer Crystal Taliefero) and two other male voices (band members Toby Myers and Mike Wanchic) in addition to Mellencamp's on the second verse.Mellencamp told GQ magazine in 2022 what inspired him to have voices other than his own take turns singing lead: "Sly and the Family Stone. A third single, "Hand to Hold on To", made it to No. Right now, Elvis Costello, Meg Ryan, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey are doing table readings like an old radio play. 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. 28). He's young, and he grew up listening to Grand Funk Railroad. "[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. So that's where he came up with that name. 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. Pepper' of Americana to me. "On this record, we ended up quite a bit away from where we started", Mellencamp told Guitar World Acoustic in 1998. Joe McCandless knows what really happened; he saw it all. Mellencamp told Rolling Stone magazine: They didn't give me a reason why she couldn't come. If you listen to the lead Larry [Crane] plays on 'Face of the Nation,' he never would have played that 'cause he didn't really know who the Animals were. I could have done this in my studio. "[20] The No Better Than This Tour returned to the U.S. for one final round of shows from October 25 to November 19, 2011. When we walked out onstage, there wasn't a band on Earth to touch us. 2 in the fall of 1985 and spawned five Top 40 singles: "Lonely Ol' Night" and "Small Town" (both No. "[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]. Growing up in southern Indianawith which he is strongly identifiedMellencamp began playing in rock bands . And the movie is wonderful. While it was intended to be a flag football thing, it descended into . ", 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. It was the most expensive record I ever made. Mellencamp's publicist, Bob Merlis, noted to the Associated Press: If [McCain is] such a true conservative, why [is he] playing songs that have a very populist pro-labor message written by a guy who would find no argument if you characterized him as an ardent leftist? I'm sitting there listening to it and thinking, "Did Rosanne Cash just kill that song or what!" There's no orchestra, just two twangy acoustic guitars, an accordion, and a fiddle. Germano would remain in Mellencamp's band until 1994, when she left to pursue a solo career. In 1988, Rolling Stone magazine called this version of Mellencamp's band "one of the most powerful and versatile live bands ever assembled." The album also contained two protest songs in "L.U.V." John's band members have been working on some non Mellencamp related projects check out their updates below. 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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. He signed with Starbucks' Hear Music label to distribute the album and said, "they think it's a fucking masterpiece". It wasn't let's go back and try to make this part fit into my song, but I wanted to capture the same feeling the way those songs used to make you feel. I was hit by lightning by that concert. Mellencamp performed solo acoustic renditions of Seeger and Lee Hays' "If I Had a Hammer" and his own "A Ride Back Home.". On September 23, 2008, Mellencamp filmed a concert at the Crump Theatre in Columbus, Indiana for a new A&E Biography series called Homeward Bound. "[76], The Alliance Theatre described the show as a "Southern Gothic musical fraught with mystery, tragedy and ghosts of the past.". Official website of Legendary singer songwriter John Mellencamp. ", 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. 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. Harper Collins published Paintings and Reflections, an overview of Mellencamp's earlier work as a painter, in 1998. This other step that people keep wanting me to take to become another level of recording artist to be Madonna? He's always been somewhat feisty, and his 'Authority Song' tells that story. Kenny Aronoff is about as successful as a freelance drummer can get. Concerts. 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. 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