Rolling Stone Magazine has called Mellencamp's band the best . In 1991, Mellencamp said: "'Big Daddy' was the best record I ever made. Learn all about John Mellencamp on AllMusic. On February 1, 2018, Netflix began streaming a concert that took place on October 25, 2016, at the Chicago Theatre as part of Mellencamp's Plain Spoken Tour. Oct 07, 2022 Pepper' of Americana to me. 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 September 29, 2021, Mellencamp released the audio and music video for "Wasted Days", a duet with Springsteen, as the lead single from Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. I went to New York and everybody said, 'You sound like a hillbilly.' 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. 14), and "Rooty Toot Toot" (No. [3] On August 30, 2018, Mellencamp was bestowed with the Woody Guthrie Prize in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. We had a lot of fun together when we were kids. I want to write my songs, do some little shows. John Cougar. Learning those opened the band's vision to try new things on my songs. [91] Their divorce became official on August 12, 2011, with the couple negotiating "an amicable settlement of all issues involving property and maintenance rights, the custody and support of their children, and all other issues", according to the settlement agreement. But that's a good thing. On December 6, 2009, Mellencamp performed "Born in the U.S.A." as a tribute to Bruce Springsteen, who was one of the honorees at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors. People have licensed songs that have already been hits, but nobody's licensed a brand-new song to a major company, and people don't know how to react.". [101] People Magazine confirmed in January 2021 that Mellencamp and Sherrill have broken up. [95] In August 2016, the couple's publicist confirmed they had broken up. [102], Since college, Mellencamp (with the exception of a continuing addiction to nicotine) has lived a drug and alcohol-free lifestyle. "[23], In October 2013, Mellencamp revealed that he was working on a new album, and he offered this update on the project to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "I've had a couple rehearsals with the band, and T Bone [Burnett] and I go in the studio in January. [96][97], In July 2017, it was reported that Mellencamp and Ryan had reunited and were dating again. . 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. [26] Although Mellencamp said that Burnett would serve as the producer of Plain Spoken, Burnett was only credited as the "executive producer" of the album. Former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty said of Mellencamp: John is one of the great American songwriters and a great rock spirit. In 1982 Michael Porcaro joined as bassist. Troye, a native Hoosier, joined the band in the midst of the Words and Music Tour, and has made an impact in Mellencamp's music since joining, both in the studio and during the live shows. 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. (The song would later be included, in a re-recorded version, on Mellencamp's 2017 album Sad Clowns & Hillbillies.) ", Mellencamp has also honed his skills by his own self-education in art history, visiting museums across Europe and America whenever he was on tour and studying a broad spectrum of artists and the mechanics of their work and by looking at signs and billboards out the windows of cars and buses while crisscrossing the country. This country's been hijacked. ', "JOHN MELLENCAMP'S 'PLAIN SPOKEN' CONCERT FILM HEADED TO NETFLIX", John Mellencamp Debuts at No. "It was too labored over, too thought about, and it wasn't organic enough. "George was a dreamer, and I was sorry to hear of his passing."[53]. [68], Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2008. and that "you'll be all right". 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. He is known for his catchy brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. The album is really about one guy, just one guys voice speaking about his life, Mellencamp explains, speaking of Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. Shortly after finishing Scarecrow, Mellencamp helped organize the first Farm Aid benefit concert with Willie Nelson and Neil Young in Champaign, Illinois on September 22, 1985. Germano would remain in Mellencamp's band until 1994, when she left to pursue a solo career. 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? 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At these dozen shows, which ranged in length from 45 to 60 minutes, Mellencamp covered a number of rock and folk classics and sprinkled in a few of his own songs. People are worried. 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. [100], In April 2020, it was reported that Mellencamp has been dating skincare expert Jamie Sherrill since the beginning of the year. I'm not part of the music business. Hell, if that was the case, you wouldn't like anyone in the music business because everyone's blowing cocaine. 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.". 28). They need to know that somewhere out there somebody feels the way that they do in the small towns and in the big cities. 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]. Feb. 27, 2023 Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 8:33 a.m. San Antonio rocked out with John Mellencamp at the Majestic Theatre over the weekend. 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. [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). He is of Dutch ancestry. That was when we became friends, when I went to Indiana and recorded with him and the guys this really cool song called 'Sugar Hill Mountain' that's in the movie. 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. 1 hit "Jack & Diane". We were better. "We had a lot of discussions about the rhythm and blues music of the day. Mellencamp has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer brought his North American tour . Mellencamp recorded The Kid Inside, the follow-up to Chestnut Street Incident, in 1977, but DeFries eventually decided against releasing the album, and Mellencamp was dropped from MCA records (DeFries finally released The Kid Inside in early 1983, after Mellencamp achieved stardom). "Nobody's selling anything, there's no souvenirsexcept what's in everybody's heart", Mellencamp told Billboard magazine. Mr. Home Help Search Login Register John Mellencamp Community > MELLENCAMP.COM ANNOUNCEMENTS > Announcements & Updates > Mellencamp Band Member Update He is known for his catchy brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. In an interview with the Bloomington Herald-Times in March 2008, Mellencamp dubbed Life, Death, Love and Freedom "The best record I've ever made." Everything is a possible painting. How is it that he hasn't been recalled? 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. I sang a little bit on his record. [88][89] He donated $1.5 million to the school to build an indoor athletics training facility, which was named John Mellencamp Pavilion. John Cougar Mellencamp . 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. 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'. They thought I was going to turn into the next Neil Diamond. and "Another Sunny Day 12/25", in addition to the title track, which hit No. 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"). [99] On October 30, 2019, it was reported the actress had ended their engagement. "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. "Do you guys know who Orpheus was? "[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. 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. 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. "His infectious melodies and compassionate lyrics, wrapped in workingman's rock, crystallize life's joys and struggles and illuminate the human condition. He intended for Freedom's Road to have a 1960s rock sound while still remaining contemporary, and he feels that goal was achieved. 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. Mellencamp began working on a musical with horror author Stephen King, entitled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, in 2000. 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. On February 27, 2020, Mellencamp's official social media accounts confirmed that he was currently recording an album at his Belmont Mall recording studio. ! So thats encouraging.[49], Some of the songs that may be on Mellencamp's next album are leftovers from Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. They depict existential scenes and human beings ridden with the angst of the everyday. 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. The record wasn't released in the United States, but it yielded a top-five hit in Australia with "I Need a Lover". After the release of Mr. I ain't gonna do it. The first song with video, "Jena", was introduced on Mellencamp's website in October 2007. He's a great songwriter and I have become very close [with him] and had a lot of fun with him. The album was scheduled for release in 2020, but the pandemic pushed its release time frame back indefinitely. John Mellencamp formerly John Cougar Mellencamp, formerly-formerly John Cougar is an American original. In its list of the 50 best albums of 2008, Rolling Stone magazine named Life, Death, Love and Freedom No. "[12], As Frank DiGiacomo of Vanity Fair wrote in 2007, "The Lonesome Jubilee was the album in which Mellencamp defined his now signature sound: a rousing, crystalline mix of acoustic and electric guitars, Appalachian fiddle, and gospel-style backing vocals, anchored by a crisp, bare-knuckle drumbeat and completed by his own velveteen rasp."[13]. The CD will come out ahead of time. 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 documentary is narrated by Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey, who is an avowed Mellencamp fan.[46]. 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. [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. ", 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. [48] Written and produced solely by Mellencamp, "Wasted Days" is a song about aging and making the most of the time one has left. He's young, and he grew up listening to Grand Funk Railroad. 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. According to Dr. Louis A. Zona, director and curator of the Butler Institute: "I was interested in the dialogue between Mellencamp's work and the Butler's more traditional collection of 19th- and 20th- century American art by masters including John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, and Raphael Soyer. We explored what a lot of these (current) bands are doing these young black bands that are doing more than just sampling. In response, Mellencamp instructed Merlis to pen a letter to NOM stating "that Mr. Mellencamp's views on same sex marriage and equal rights for people of all sexual orientations are at odds with NOM's stated agenda" and requesting that NOM "find music from a source more in harmony with your views than Mr. Mellencamp in the future. As a member of John Mellencamp's band from the early '80s through the mid-'90s, drummer Kenny Aronoff's swift, inventive playing style drove a string of radio-friendly hits such as Jack And Diane, Pink Houses, Hurts So Good and Crumblin' Down to the top of the charts. New Releases . [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. 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. 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. John Mellencamp - Pink Houses John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane John Melloncamp - Wild Night Johnny . Joe McCandless knows what really happened; he saw it all. The program aired on December 11, 2008, and also featured an in-depth documentary tracing Mellencamp's roots. And it don't matter who you care to name U2, The Rolling Stones, anybody. 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 read the script and I thought, 'Yeah, I get it but I don't want to take my shirt off.' 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. "[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. It sounds like the 'Sgt. Strictly a One-Eyed Jack was released on January 21, 2022. He wrote about half of it after I read him the script, and then the next half after he saw the movie. "For the first time ever, we talked about the record before we started. It wasn't just me. 48 among the 100 best singles of the year. Active. On the second leg of the tour in the summer of 2005, Fogerty co-headlined with Mellencamp at outdoor amphitheaters across the United States. ", "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. I was totally unaware of it until it showed up on the album jacket. Mellencamp Band Member Update John Mellencamp Community February 23, 2023, 01:10:24 am Welcome, Guest. On July 30, 2012, in San Jose, CA, Mellencamp was honored with the John Steinbeck Award, given to those individuals who exemplify the spirit of "Steinbeck's empathy, commitment to democratic values, and belief in the dignity of the common man. Orpheus Descending will be released in February 2023. Mellencamp released a compilation album of cover songs titled Other People's Stuff on December 7, 2018. On the 1984 Uh-Huh Tour, Mellencamp opened his shows with cover versions of songs he admired growing up, including Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel", the Animals' "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", Lee Dorsey's "Ya Ya", and the Left Banke's "Pretty Ballerina". See the Actress' Sweet Surprise Announcement", "Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp Split, Call Off Engagement: She 'Had Enough', "John Mellencamp Dating Skincare Expert Nurse Jamie Following Meg Ryan Split", "Rocker John Mellencamp and Beauty Expert Nurse Jamie Split", "John Cougar: Pink Houses In The Midwest", AMA Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Mellencamp&oldid=1138995868, Mike Wanchic guitars, backing vocals (1976present), Andy York guitars, backing vocals (1994present), Dane Clark drums, backing vocals (1996present), Troye Kinnett keyboards, accordion, backing vocals (2006present), Robert "Ferd" Frank bass, backing vocals (19771981), Tom Knowles drums, backing vocals (19771979), Pat Peterson backing vocals (19812006), John Cascella keyboards, accordion (19841992), Michael Ramos keyboards, accordion (20022005), Courtney Kaiser-Sandler - backing vocals, percussion (2000-2005), Moe Z M.D. [90], Mellencamp was married to Priscilla Esterline from 1970 until 1981 and to Victoria Granucci from 1981 until 1989. 21) and "Rumble Seat" (No. 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. "[29] Mellencamp said Dylan's endorsement was worth more than 10 Grammys.[30]. 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. 48 on the Billboard singles chart. "Bruce is singing on the new record and is playing guitar," Mellencamp said. 10 in April 1964. "We realized more than ever what a big melting pot of all different types of music the '60s were. in the U.S.A. (A Salute to '60s Rock)" (No. 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. "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. Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town is featured in the video. "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. To sell out? [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. "Musicians are out of work," Clark says . I love John a lot. That's rock 'n' roll at its very core. Mellencamp played for over two hours and included 24 songs in his setlist on the tour. "I was very proud and humbled to have been able to play 'Born in the U.S.A.' in a different fashion that I think was true to the feelings that Bruce had when he wrote it", Mellencamp said. 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 . 28 single in late 1979. Joan Baez is a 66-year-old woman and the sweetest gal in the world.[80]. Im gonna err on the side of caution, Mellencamp told Billboard Magazine. People need to hear a voice like yours that's out there to echo the discontent that's out there in the heartland. Mellencamp confessed in a 2005 interview: "That [name] was put on me by some manager. 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". Mellencamp and Green's final collaboration was "Yours Forever", a song that was included on the soundtrack to the 2000 movie, The Perfect Storm. Im already writing songs for another record, so thats how far ahead I am, Mellencamp said. In my own way I have tried to address these issues in song. I'd listen to this record, that record. In 1988, Rolling Stone magazine called this version of Mellencamp's band "one of the most powerful and versatile live bands ever assembled." "The singles were stupid little pop songs," he told Record Magazine in 1983. It had to be from hearing those old records. 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. Dane Clark filed for unemployment benefits last week, a career first for the Indiana musician who's played drums in John Mellencamp's band since 1996. Cuttin' Heads also included a duet with Trisha Yearwood on a love song called "Deep Blue Heart". 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