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. 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". [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. "We realized more than ever what a big melting pot of all different types of music the '60s were. This other step that people keep wanting me to take to become another level of recording artist to be Madonna? I'm gonna come out and play with upright bass and cocktail [drum] kits and a lot of acoustic instruments. [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. 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.". [3], Mellencamp was born in Seymour, Indiana, on October 7, 1951. If you could imagine Tennessee Williams meets Stephen King. 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. 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. The tour will mark the return of violinist Lisa Germano to Mellencamp's band. I was totally unaware of it until it showed up on the album jacket. The Farm Aid concerts remain an annual event and have raised over $60million for struggling family farmers as of 2022[update]. When I put it together it felt like John Huston sent me all these songs. After a while, we didn't even have to talk about it anymore. 10 on the Billboard 200, becoming the 10th Top 10 album of his career. Mellencamp began working on a musical with horror author Stephen King, entitled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, in 2000. The record wasn't released in the United States, but it yielded a top-five hit in Australia with "I Need a Lover". 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. 2 and 16 weeks in the top 10, and "Jack & Diane", which was a No. 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. During the 198788 Lonesome Jubilee Tour, Mellencamp was joined onstage by surprise guest Bruce Springsteen at the end of his May 26, 1988, gig in Irvine, California, for a duet of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", which Mellencamp performed as the penultimate song during each show on that tour. Out of my agony came a couple of really beautiful songs. "[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]. "It'll be like Alan Freed, like the old Moondog shows", Mellencamp told Billboard magazine prior to the tour: "When you went to see his shows, there was a movie like The Girl Can't Help It or something, and then three or four bands played. 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.". If these works are any indication, plain painting can be extraordinarily eloquent.". 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. I sang a little bit on his record. "He played me this song", Yearwood told Country.com, "and he said, 'I kind of have an idea of like when Emmylou Harris sang on Bob Dylan's record, just kind of harmony all the way through.'". It had to be from hearing those old records. On October 6, 2008, Mellencamp won the prestigious Classic Songwriter Award at the 2008 Q Awards in London, England. While he was on tour, Mellencamp recorded a new album titled No Better Than This that was again produced by T Bone Burnett. On the second leg of the tour in the summer of 2005, Fogerty co-headlined with Mellencamp at outdoor amphitheaters across the United States. "[36], In addition to his work on Sad Clowns & Hillbillies, Mellencamp wrote the title song to the 2017 American war movie The Yellow Birds, which was released on June 15, 2018, by Saban Films.[37][38]. The song was a re-working of the 1964 Bob Dylan song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" that reflected on the killing of Civil Rights activist Medger Evers. Happy Go Lucky spawned the 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]. Home Help Search Login Register John Mellencamp Community > MELLENCAMP.COM ANNOUNCEMENTS > Announcements & Updates > Mellencamp Band Member Update Upcoming John Mellencamp tour dates, ticket links and venue information 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. 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Growing up in southern Indianawith which he is strongly identifiedMellencamp began playing in rock bands . The official description of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County from the Alliance Theatre website: In the tiny town of Lake Belle Reve, Mississippi in 1957, a terrible tragedy took the lives of two brothers and a beautiful young girl. 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. He was born with spina bifida, for which he had corrective surgery as an infant. Harper Collins published Paintings and Reflections, an overview of Mellencamp's earlier work as a painter, in 1998. "[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. "The name of the new record is Orpheus Descending," Mellencamp said to the audience. 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. Her album Geek the Girl (1994) was chosen as a top album of the 1990s by Spin magazine. and that "you'll be all right". John Mellencamp - Pink Houses John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane John Melloncamp - Wild Night Johnny . McCain's campaign responded by pulling the songs from their playlist. Said Mellencamp of his band during the 1987-88 Lonesome Jubilee Tour: "Just then, we were the best band in the world, bar none. He is known for his catchy brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Urban has covered numerous Mellencamp songs in his concerts over the years, including "Hurts So Good", "Jack and Diane", "Authority Song", and "Rumble Seat". Whenever We Wanted yielded the Top 40 hits "Get a Leg Up" and "Again Tonight", but "Last Chance", "Love and Happiness" and "Now More Than Ever" all garnered significant airplay on rock radio. 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. Mellencamp also tried to control how his band members cut loose. His work has also been exhibited at Herron School of Art and Design, a division of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. 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. [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 had his first major museum exhibition, Nothing Like I Planned, at Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, from April 12 through June 10, 2012. I'd listen to this record, that record. "I've known George since we were in the same Sunday school class. No Better Than This was released on August 17, 2010, and peaked at No. Strictly a One-Eyed Jack was released on January 21, 2022. People need to hear a voice like yours that's out there to echo the discontent that's out there in the heartland. ! So thats encouraging.[49], Some of the songs that may be on Mellencamp's next album are leftovers from Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. ", 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. You're right, John, this is still our country. I would lie there, listening to Roxy Music, right next to the record player so I wouldn't have to get up to flip the record over. "We'd finish a show and I'd go out and have steak and french fries and eggs at 4 in the morning and then go to sleep with all that in my gut. "I take no credit for that record. Within the context of what was still undeniably the sound of a rock & roll band, he began incorporating instruments more characteristic of folk and roots musicdulcimer, mandolin, fiddle, accordion, dobro, penny whistle, among them. "[66], On April 27, 2016, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) presented Mellencamp with its prestigious Founders Award at the 33rd annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Los Angeles. I could have done this in my studio. "[70], Mellencamp wrote the score for the Meg Ryan movie Ithaca, which premiered on October 23, 2015, at the Middleburg Film Festival in Virginia and was released in theaters and on-demand by Momentum Pictures on September 9, 2016. During his induction speech for Mellencamp, Joel said:[69]. He married fashion model Elaine Irwin on September 5, 1992. A national treasure, he's also one of the truly great music creators that can make us care, move, clap and sing along. Toward the end, I didn't even go to the studio. Take an election; take an oil field; take advantage of your own people a game of political Three-Card Monte.[79]. We had a very distinct vision of what should be happening here. Mellencamp released a compilation album of cover songs titled Other People's Stuff on December 7, 2018. The 76-stop run is set to kick off with a two-night stand in . John Cougar. I wish I would've been able to enjoy it, but I was too busy slugging. "[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. The album captures his live performance at Town Hall in New York City on July 31, 2003, in which he performed every track from his 2003 Trouble No More covers album in addition to a rendition of "Highway 61 Revisited" by Bob Dylan and reworked versions of three of his own songs. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee John Mellencamp has announced a massive North American tour, dubbed Live and In Person 2023. The tour finally concluded with a tour of Canada in the summer of 2012. 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 Active. The CD will come out ahead of time. To kiss somebody's ass? Mellencamp and Green had a falling out in the early 2000s, and Green ultimately moved from Bloomington, Indiana to Taos, New Mexico in 2001. Im already writing songs for another record, so thats how far ahead I am, Mellencamp said. "Sugar Hill Mountain" is a fiddle-driven folk song that describes an idyllic location where there's "bubble gum and cigarette trees", no clocks, every day is spring, and anything you need is "gratis." I wrote all the songs, 17 songs. With guitarist Andy York now on board as Larry Crane's full-time replacement, Mellencamp launched his Dance Naked Tour in the summer of 1994, but had a minor heart attack after a show at Jones Beach in New York on August 8 of that year. 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. To anybody who's said thank you to me, I say, 'You're very nice, but, really, thank you. I said to John, 'I didn't walk away thinking: I want to do that. 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. 2 in the fall of 1985 and spawned five Top 40 singles: "Lonely Ol' Night" and "Small Town" (both No. You can't be 22 years old and had two dates and understand that album. His original intent was to duet on the Freedom's Road track Jim Crow" with singer and activist Joan Baez. They depict existential scenes and human beings ridden with the angst of the everyday. You hear it, and it's like 'where did that come from?' They need to know that somewhere out there somebody feels the way that they do in the small towns and in the big cities. 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. 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. Explore John Mellencamp's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. John Mellencamp Community February 10, 2023, 08:08:31 am Welcome, Guest. [50], During a performance in his hometown of Seymour, Indiana on September 17, 2022 to benefit the Southern Indiana Center for the Arts, Mellencamp revealed the title of the new record to be Orpheus Descending. It cost $280,000, do you believe that? 10 in April 1964. Right now, Elvis Costello, Meg Ryan, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey are doing table readings like an old radio play. 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. Mellencamp was Ridley Scott's first choice for Brad Pitt's part in Thelma & Louise Kevin Mazur/Getty Images According to Celebrity Net Worth, John Mellencamp, like his daughter, Teddi Mellencamp, is worth millions. For Mellencamp, painting has always been a refuge, a solitary antidote to the hectic life of touring and performing. Related Blog Posts. People are worried. 912 Concerts. . Aronoff writes about the time John Mellencamp survived a motorcycle crash one week before the recording of breakthrough album "American Fool." Toby Myers, who played bass in Mellencamp's. According to the February 1986 edition of Creem Magazine, Mellencamp wanted to incorporate the sound of classic '60s rock into Scarecrow, and he gave his band close to a hundred old singles to learn "almost mathematically verbatim" prior to recording the album. I haven't done one in five years. There would be four or five days like that when I would be completely gone. 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. (T Bone) produced. 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. He's a great songwriter and I have become very close [with him] and had a lot of fun with him. "George was a dreamer, and I was sorry to hear of his passing."[53]. Known over the course of his successful four-decade music career for his acutely observed songs about the American landscape and its cast of characters, Mellencamp has been equally productive as a painter mining similar terrain. This country's been hijacked. 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. His professional music career began in earnest in 1976 when MCA Records released his first album, The Chestnut Street Incident. Hell, if that was the case, you wouldn't like anyone in the music business because everyone's blowing cocaine. Mellencamp, who works in a very different, very personal idiom, makes plainspoken paintings, he says, because he's a plainspoken man. 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. Our band features a Grammy award winner to those that have toured with some of the biggest names in the industry. But that's a good thing. 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. Please login or register . 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. "[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. 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. 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. Trouble No More was released in 2003, dedicated to Mellencamp's friend Timothy White, and spent several weeks at No. Mellencamp performed solo acoustic renditions of Seeger and Lee Hays' "If I Had a Hammer" and his own "A Ride Back Home.". 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? [1] She began her career as a violinist for John Mellencamp. 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". His sad clowns, ex-girlfriends, creative heroes, imagined outliers, and hillbilly singers are often endowed with oversize hands and facial features and always with deadpan, proud stares.". "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. John J. Mellencamp [1] (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American singer-songwriter. Surely you can find 12-to-15 songs that will work."[43]. [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. Pages: [ 1] 46. and "Another Sunny Day 12/25", in addition to the title track, which hit No. The album is really about one guy, just one guys voice speaking about his life, Mellencamp explains, speaking of Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. Mellencamp told iHeart Radio in January 2022 that Small Town was scheduled debut in Louisville in September 2022, but that didn't happen. According to Sheets, "In recent years, Mellencamp has incorporated the looser, more jangly rhythms of street art into panoramic canvases that reflect his social and political activism also present in his music. "Neither candidate is as liberal as he would prefer, but he's happy to contribute what he can", Merlis said. The album was released on September 23, 2014. ", Mellencamp's 1994 Dance Naked album included a cover of Van Morrison's "Wild Night" as a duet with Meshell Ndegeocello. 1 hit for four weeks. in a little town called Selma. Id walk in and the guys in the band would look at me and go, Not the same guy talking, so wed just move on to another song. Album Rock Heartland Rock Roots Rock Contemporary Pop/Rock Contemporary Folk Contemporary Singer/Songwriter Rock & Roll Bar Band Hard Rock. "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. I'm not part of the music business. "[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. It wasn't like the title was made up it wasn't supposed to be punky or cocky like some people thought. 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. In 1984, when asked about his views on drugs, he told Bill Holdship of Creem magazine, "If you want to stick needles in your arms, go ahead and fucking do it. I think we came up with a pretty timeless sounding album", Mellencamp told his online radio station in late 2006. You're the one that's going to pay the consequences. Don't let this club membership change you, John. In his music, mortality, anxiety, acts of God, questions of romance and brotherhood, and crises of conscience all collide and demand hard decisions. On this tour, which ran through the summer of 2012 and covered the entire United States and Canada and much of Europe, Mellencamp opened each concert with a showing of a Kurt Markus documentary about the making of No Better Than This called "It's About You" before hitting the stage to play three different sets: a stripped-down acoustic set with his band, a solo acoustic set, and a fully electrified rock set. He is of Dutch ancestry. How is it that he hasn't been recalled? 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. 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