He is of Dutch ancestry. 27) and "Ain't Even Done With the Night" (No. [8] Mellencamp reluctantly agreed, but the album was a commercial failure, selling only 12,000 copies. I have 17 more songs to record. ", An exhibition called The Paintings of John Mellencamp came to the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio from November 3, 2013, to January 12, 2014, and was Mellencamp's first major exhibition in an art museum. Following the delivery of his address, Indiana University bestowed upon him an honorary Doctorate of Musical Arts. [42] Mellencamp confirmed in 2021 that it will be a jukebox musical titled Small Town and the story will involve two kids named Jack and Diane. He married fashion model Elaine Irwin on September 5, 1992. ", A full-color 48-page catalogue with the aforementioned essay by Sheets accompanied the exhibition. If you could imagine Tennessee Williams meets Stephen King. Discovering Beckmann to me was like discovering Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan.". We have gone too far with the shameful killing and genocidefrom the Native Americans to where we find ourselves today. McCain's campaign responded by pulling the songs from their playlist. John Mellencamp Shares "Carolina Shag" Lyric Video- Reissue Of Seminal Album "Scarecrow" Out November 4th Read More. They need to hear stories about frustration, alienation and desperation. No Better Than This is the first mono-only release to make the top 10 since James Brown's Pure Dynamite! It's one of the better songs of the last few years, actually. I went to New York and everybody said, 'You sound like a hillbilly.' 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. In May 2000, he gave the Indiana University commencement address, in which he advised graduates to "play it like you feel it!" You're the one that's going to pay the consequences. 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. "[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. "[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]. 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. He also revealed that the album had the working title of Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. News: Visit Mellencamp.com's NEWS section for all of the latest updates! "To me, this record is very urban," Mellencamp told Billboard magazine of Human Wheels in the summer of 1993. Oct 07, 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee John Mellencamp has announced a massive North American tour, dubbed Live and In Person 2023. You can make this much money! Blah, blah, blah. [21], On July 8, 2014, Mellencamp released a new live album called Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall without any advance notice. 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. ", In 1993, he released Human Wheels, and the title track peaked at No. He is known for his catchy brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Part of the No Depression mythology requires either a tragic early death or decades of unacknowledged masterpieces created during a life of grueling poverty. 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. By Thad Requet. "But we took it further than an urban record. When I put it together it felt like John Huston sent me all these songs. While it was intended to be a flag football thing, it descended into . "[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]. [3], Mellencamp was born in Seymour, Indiana, on October 7, 1951. 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. 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 . He has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. 1:07. Right now, Elvis Costello, Meg Ryan, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey are doing table readings like an old radio play. 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.' 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. 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. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. [34], In October 2018, it was announced that Broadway Licensing have redeveloped Ghost Brothers of Darkland County and made it available for worldwide licensing beginning in 2019. [77], In 2003, Mellencamp became one of the first entertainers to speak out against the Iraq War when he released the song "To Washington", which was also critical of the 2000 U.S. Presidential elections. The Farm Aid concerts remain an annual event and have raised over $60million for struggling family farmers as of 2022[update]. Mellencamp released Freedom's Road, his first album of original material in over five years, on January 23, 2007. He has also been bestowed with the Nordoff-Robbins Silver Clef Special Music Industry Humanitarian Award (1991), the Billboard Century Award (2001), the Woody Guthrie Award (2003), and the ASCAP Foundation Champion Award (2007). 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. Which is correct? In 1988, he joined the Art Students League and had his first formal training with portrait painter David Leffel, who taught him the technique of painting dark to light in the manner of Rembrandt and other old masters. [48] Written and produced solely by Mellencamp, "Wasted Days" is a song about aging and making the most of the time one has left. 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. 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). "[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. Throughout his life, however, Mellencamp has continued to seriously explore painting. [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. 17). Pat Benatar recorded "I Need a Lover" on her debut album In the Heat of the Night. What happened was the girl he fell in love with got sent to Haiti, he went down and met with the devil and bad things happenedYou can read about Orpheus in Greek mythology."[51]. The arrangements are more ambitious, with programs and loops going right along with real drums and guitars.". It was just a terrible lifestyle. On February 27, 2020, Mellencamp's official social media accounts confirmed that he was currently recording an album at his Belmont Mall recording studio. Upcoming John Mellencamp tour dates, ticket links and venue information Happy Go Lucky, which was produced by Junior Vasquez, was released to critical acclaim. Urban has covered numerous Mellencamp songs in his concerts over the years, including "Hurts So Good", "Jack and Diane", "Authority Song", and "Rumble Seat". Mellencamp has sold over 30 million albums in the US and over 60 million worldwide. "Do you guys know who Orpheus was? Daughter Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave was a cast member on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for three seasons. ", 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. "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. On December 30, 2010, Mellencamp announced that he and Irwin had separated after 18 years of marriage. ", "John Mellencamp, Alan Jackson, Kool & the Gang Lead 2018 Songwriters Hall of Fame Class", "John Mellencamp: Biography on Yahoo! Mr. And it don't matter who you care to name U2, The Rolling Stones, anybody. On August 24, 2022, he shared the lyrics to a brand new song called The Eyes of Portland a diatribe against homelessness that will be on the new record. 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. John Mellencamp - Authority Song - Rock Hall of Fame rockrollfanatic 427K views 14 years ago Almost yours: 2 weeks, on us 100+ live channels are waiting for you with zero hidden fees Dismiss. That's from a song of his called 'Life is Short Even on Its Longest Days.' Official website of Legendary singer songwriter John Mellencamp. I love John a lot. Joan Baez is a 66-year-old woman and the sweetest gal in the world.[80]. Perhaps this time we could even have a real election but that wouldn't fit the Bush administration's "take what you want and fire people later" policy. 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 a little town called Selma. "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. A national treasure, he's also one of the truly great music creators that can make us care, move, clap and sing along. [2] Early life [ edit] Mellencamp and Green's final collaboration was "Yours Forever", a song that was included on the soundtrack to the 2000 movie, The Perfect Storm. The ASCAP Founders Award goes to pioneering ASCAP songwriters who have made exceptional contributions to music by inspiring and influencing their fellow music creators. On January 18, 2009, Mellencamp performed "Pink Houses" at the Obama inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. [68], Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2008. keyboards, organ, backing vocals (19962002), This page was last edited on 12 February 2023, at 20:36. 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 released a compilation album of cover songs titled Other People's Stuff on December 7, 2018. Me and the guys in the band thought we were finished, anyway. 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. I haven't done one in five years. Dylan said: "And like my friend John Mellencamp would singbecause John sang some truth today'one day you get sick and you don't get better.' Current Members Of John's Band? John Mellencamp - Artist Details. Mellencamp drew interest from Rod Stewart's manager, Billy Gaff, after parting ways with DeFries and was signed onto the small Riva Records label. [95] In August 2016, the couple's publicist confirmed they had broken up. 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If he has not been properly credited for that groundbreaking role, its largely because he committed the unforgivable sin of actually having hits while making innovative music. 14 single "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)" (Mellencamp's last Top 40 hit) and "Just Another Day", which peaked at No. Farm Aid concerts have remained an annual event over the past 37 years, and as of 2022[update] the organization has raised over $60million. 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". 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]. And I wrote quite a few songs for this record, and some of the songs didnt have his voice, didnt have the feeling that this record has. 48 among the 100 best singles of the year. 28 single in late 1979. Updated: Oct 16, 2018 / 03:51 PM EDT. You hear it, and it's like 'where did that come from?' [88][89] He donated $1.5 million to the school to build an indoor athletics training facility, which was named John Mellencamp Pavilion. 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. Trouble No More was released in 2003, dedicated to Mellencamp's friend Timothy White, and spent several weeks at No. The documentary is narrated by Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey, who is an avowed Mellencamp fan.[46]. 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 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. ", "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. "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. "[17], Mellencamp's 1991 album, Whenever We Wanted, was the first with a cover billed to John Mellencamp; the "Cougar" was finally dropped for good. I can tell you theres a couple good songs already that I thought, Wow, did I write that fuckin song? 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. [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. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it. I sang a little bit on his record. I'm not part of the music business. John's band members have been working on some non Mellencamp related projects check out their updates below. [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. 1 on Billboard's Blues Album charts. 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. 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. Mellencamp's artwork has been the focus of a number of exhibitions. "[82][bettersourceneeded], Mellencamp supported Michael Bloomberg in his 2020 presidential campaign by taping a Bloomberg 2020 campaign ad that featured Mellencamp singing "Small Town". I walked away feeling: I get it just put all the things you love into what you do.' It started out like 'Look, lets go back and do an old country religious record. 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. 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. It was a different sound.". I said to John, 'I didn't walk away thinking: I want to do that. I'm sitting there listening to it and thinking, "Did Rosanne Cash just kill that song or what!" 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. "I see sadness in the world," Mellencamp says. After his divorce from Irwin, Mellencamp began dating actress Meg Ryan. 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. Toward the end, I didn't even go to the studio. 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"For the first time ever, we talked about the record before we started. Hell, if that was the case, you wouldn't like anyone in the music business because everyone's blowing cocaine. 2), "Rain on the Scarecrow" (No. The first song with video, "Jena", was introduced on Mellencamp's website in October 2007. He intended for Freedom's Road to have a 1960s rock sound while still remaining contemporary, and he feels that goal was achieved. For the album, see, 19761982: Performing as Johnny Cougar and John Cougar, 19831990: Performing as John Cougar Mellencamp, Last edited on 12 February 2023, at 20:36, Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, R.O.C.K. [10], "Learning those songs did a lot of positive things," Mellencamp explained to Creem writer Bill Holdship. 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. The soundtrack includes Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Elvis Costello, Taj Mahal, Ryan Bingham, Will Dailey and Neko Case among others singing the songs Mellencamp wrote. 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. They need to hear stories about it. 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. 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. Explore John Mellencamp's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. John J. Mellencamp[1] (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American singer-songwriter. 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. They need to know that somewhere out there somebody feels the way that they do in the small towns and in the big cities. I'm taking heat because no one's ever done this before. In my own way I have tried to address these issues in song. Mellencamp came to New York in the mid-1970s with the intention of studying painting if his music career aspirations didn't pan out. 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. That heart attack eventually forced him to cancel the last few weeks of the tour. According to Mellencamp, "German painting remains the basic foundation for what I do same as folk music is the foundation of my songs. Live at the Royal, which peaked at No. Learn all about John Mellencamp on AllMusic. I wrote all the songs, 17 songs. Now, we weren't playing the best songs in the world. 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. Stay ornery, stay mean. Mellencamp would leave the stage as Donovan played seven or eight of his songs (backed by Mellencamp's band) and then return to finish off his own set after Donovan departed. I ain't gonna do it. 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. Take an old Rascals song for example there's everything from marching band beats to soul music to country sounds in one song. [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. Army officials barred Baez from performing, however. Oct 07, 2022 Today Show Interview With Harry Smith - Reissue of Scarecrow - Rizzoli Coffee Table Art Book - NY Art Academy Exhibition Read More. 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. 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. 2 and 16 weeks in the top 10, and "Jack & Diane", which was a No. He's a great songwriter and I have become very close [with him] and had a lot of fun with him. Mellencamp has also stated that he's already working on the follow-up to Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. Submit Corrections . Mellencamp participated in the Vote for Change tour in October 2004 leading up to the 2004 U.S. Presidential election. Also Known As. During the next forty years, the events of that night became the stuff of local legend. In his music, mortality, anxiety, acts of God, questions of romance and brotherhood, and crises of conscience all collide and demand hard decisions. Born October 7, 1951 in Seymour, Indiana, John Mellencamp fell in love with music at an early age and was gigging in local bars and fronting a soul band by the time he was 14. Germano would remain in Mellencamp's band until 1994, when she left to pursue a solo career. 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. I think we came up with a pretty timeless sounding album", Mellencamp told his online radio station in late 2006. 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. 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'. "Not one note [in Ithaca] is anything other than Mellencamp. I was hit by lightning by that concert. People are worried. "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. In 1985, Mellencamp released Scarecrow, which peaked at No. There's no orchestra, just two twangy acoustic guitars, an accordion, and a fiddle. Mellencamp's best music is rock 'n roll stripped of all escapism, and it looks directly at the messiness of life as it's actually lived. "[28], After a star-studded lineup paid tribute to Dylan with cover versions of some of his greatest songs, Dylan closed the evening with a 30-minute speech that included a reference to Mellencamp's 2008 song "Longest Days". 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'. [93] It was reported that Mellencamp and Ryan broke up in the middle of 2014 after dating for over three years. 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