6), "R.O.C.K. Mellencamp's paintings from the 1990sof family and friends and many of himselfshow lone figures isolated frontally against simple, shadowy backgrounds. 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. 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. Home Help Search Login Register John Mellencamp Community > MELLENCAMP.COM ANNOUNCEMENTS > Announcements & Updates > Mellencamp Band Member Update The arrangements are more ambitious, with programs and loops going right along with real drums and guitars.". "Wild Night" became Mellencamp's biggest hit in years, peaking at No. He is known for his catchy brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. On February 27, 2020, Mellencamp's official social media accounts confirmed that he was currently recording an album at his Belmont Mall recording studio. Mike Wanchic Mike Wanchic, John's long time guitarist, recently completed production on singer/songwriter Stoll Vaughan's latest album The Conversation. "[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]. 27) and "Ain't Even Done With the Night" (No. 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. Take an old Rascals song for example there's everything from marching band beats to soul music to country sounds in one song. "[62], Urban told the Vancouver Sun in 2016: "For me, The Lonesome Jubilee was the defining record and tour. "Hurts So Good" went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 25th Grammys. Farm Aid concerts have remained an annual event over the past 37 years, and as of 2022[update] the organization has raised over $60million. 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. in the U.S.A.", "Paper in Fire", and "Cherry Bomb". But that's a good thing. October 7, 1951 in Seymour, IN. A lot of my songs weren't that great, but they were good enough. Concerts. 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. Mellencamp's artwork has been the focus of a number of exhibitions. On October 6, 2008, Mellencamp won the prestigious Classic Songwriter Award at the 2008 Q Awards in London, England. Mellencamp came to New York in the mid-1970s with the intention of studying painting if his music career aspirations didn't pan out. The album also contained two protest songs in "L.U.V." 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 "I agonized", Mellencamp told USA Today's Edna Gundersen in 2007 over his decision to license "Our Country" to Chevrolet. "We had a lot of discussions about the rhythm and blues music of the day. He's always been somewhat feisty, and his 'Authority Song' tells that story. The documentary is narrated by Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey, who is an avowed Mellencamp fan.[46]. We asked why and they said, 'She can't fit here, period.' We were better. The Farm Aid concerts remain an annual event and have raised over $60million for struggling family farmers as of 2022[update]. He returned to the concert stage in early 1995 by playing a series of dates in small Midwestern clubs under the pseudonym Pearl Doggy. "[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. Former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty said of Mellencamp: John is one of the great American songwriters and a great rock spirit. [100], In April 2020, it was reported that Mellencamp has been dating skincare expert Jamie Sherrill since the beginning of the year. He was a Greek god that came down, and he was the best singer, the best songwriter, and men wanted to be like him and girls wanted to be with him. In my own way I have tried to address these issues in song. [4], Mellencamp attended Vincennes University, a two-year college in Vincennes, Indiana, starting in 1972. He is known for his catchy brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. 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. Happy Go Lucky, which was produced by Junior Vasquez, was released to critical acclaim. Mellencamp sang the gospel song "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" at White's funeral on July 2, 2002. The show featured performers returning to small venues where they performed during the early stages of their careers. The tour will mark the return of violinist Lisa Germano to Mellencamp's band. 1 hit "Jack & Diane". If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it. They need to hear stories about it. Happy Go Lucky and a subsequent four-month tour from March to July 1997 to promote it, Mellencamp signed a four-album deal with Columbia Records, although he wound up making only three albums for the label. He's a great songwriter and I have become very close [with him] and had a lot of fun with him. I'm through digging a ditch.". 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. This country's been hijacked. YouTube eventually removed the video claiming it violated their community guidelines. Mellencamp currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana. And yet, George W. Bush has lied to us, failed to keep our own borders secure, entered a war under false pretense, endangered lives, and created financial chaos. "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.'". This is rock music that tells the truth on both its composer and the culture he's observing.[55]. 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. [3] On August 30, 2018, Mellencamp was bestowed with the Woody Guthrie Prize in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Orpheus Descending will be released in February 2023. The tour finally concluded with a tour of Canada in the summer of 2012. 5 overall and also dubbed "Troubled Land" No. [48] Written and produced solely by Mellencamp, "Wasted Days" is a song about aging and making the most of the time one has left. The album, which was released on July 15, 2008, was produced by T Bone Burnett. [102], Since college, Mellencamp (with the exception of a continuing addiction to nicotine) has lived a drug and alcohol-free lifestyle. I think we came up with a pretty timeless sounding album", Mellencamp told his online radio station in late 2006. In his music, mortality, anxiety, acts of God, questions of romance and brotherhood, and crises of conscience all collide and demand hard decisions. 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. 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". In 1991, Mellencamp said: "'Big Daddy' was the best record I ever made. ", "John Mellencamp, Alan Jackson, Kool & the Gang Lead 2018 Songwriters Hall of Fame Class", "John Mellencamp: Biography on Yahoo! 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It may be the first-ever musical written by men for men. The worst thing was that I could have gone on making records like that for hundreds of years. 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. His next effort, Nothing Matters and What If . "Our Country", the first single from Freedom's Road, was played as the opening song on Mellencamp's 2006 spring tour, and the band that opened for him on that tour, Little Big Town, was called on to record harmonies on the studio version of "Our Country", as well as seven other songs on Freedom's Road. I walked away feeling: I get it just put all the things you love into what you do.' This one, though, is not only tolerable, it's good. His latest album of original songs, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack, was released on January 21, 2022. Submit Corrections. 1 on Top Rock Albums With 'Other People's Stuff, "JOHN MELLENCAMP ANNOUNCES 'OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF' LP, 2019 TOUR", "John Mellencamp's 'Jack & Diane'-Inspired Musical Has a Director, Choreographer", "9 Memorable Moments From Clive Davis' Grammy Museum Benefit With Elton John, H.E.R. In addition to the exhibitions listed above, Mellencamp was part of a group show at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "Musicians are out of work," Clark says . John Cougar Mellencamp . A video for the song was filmed in Savannah, Georgia on June 9, 2008. Right now, Elvis Costello, Meg Ryan, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey are doing table readings like an old radio play. "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. When I put it together it felt like John Huston sent me all these songs. [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. During the pandemic, Mellencamp wrote at least 15 songs. Which is correct? Oct 07, 2022 Today Show Interview With Harry Smith - Reissue of Scarecrow - Rizzoli Coffee Table Art Book - NY Art Academy Exhibition Read More. 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. 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. "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." You know it, and I know it. The singer's $30 million fortune isn't just down to his career as a musician, either. 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. A former keyboardist. 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. They depict existential scenes and human beings ridden with the angst of the everyday. 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. I was totally unaware of it until it showed up on the album jacket. 10 on the Billboard 200, becoming the 10th Top 10 album of his career. By Thad Requet. "I take no credit for that record. I have 17 more songs to record. You can't be 22 years old and had two dates and understand that album. "This is as naked a rock record as you're going to hear," Mellencamp said of Dance Naked in a 1994 Billboard magazine interview. Mellencamp and Green's final collaboration was "Yours Forever", a song that was included on the soundtrack to the 2000 movie, The Perfect Storm. Each member of the band has many years of not only experience, but has a heart to deliver the best possible experience. 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 was that close. Mellencamp's late mother, Marilyn, loved to paint landscapes and flowers, and her son fell in love with both art and music at an early age. 15 hit "Authority Song", which he said is "our version of 'I Fought the Law'." [65], On September 9, 2010, Mellencamp received the Americana Lifetime Achievement Award in Nashville. I ain't lying. "[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. 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. 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. 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. "[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. 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. He wrote about half of it after I read him the script, and then the next half after he saw the movie. 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. 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. John Mellencamp - Artist Details. The 76-stop run is set to kick off with a two-night stand in . 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. 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. [34][35] Carter was featured on only five of Sad Clowns & Hillbillies' 13 tracks and contributed to the writing of just two songs. 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 . Pages: [ 1] Oct 07, 2022 ", 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. We explored what a lot of these (current) bands are doing these young black bands that are doing more than just sampling. One reviewer called the opening gig of the European leg of the tour "maybe the best rock-performance ever in Denmark. 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. People are worried. [94], In September 2015, Mellencamp reportedly started dating former supermodel Christie Brinkley. In 2010, Mellencamp's music was used by the National Organization for Marriage at events opposing same-sex marriage. 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. In its list of the 50 best albums of 2008, Rolling Stone magazine named Life, Death, Love and Freedom No. "Not one note [in Ithaca] is anything other than Mellencamp. I do not want some guy walking up to me going, Hey John, I saw you in Detroit or something, it was a great show except my wife got COVID and died. Just the thought of hearing thatThe business side of my career is like, This many people will see it! . According to Mellencamp, "German painting remains the basic foundation for what I do same as folk music is the foundation of my songs. 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.". ), The early 21st century also found Mellencamp teaming up with artists such as Chuck D and India.Arie to deliver his second Columbia album, Cuttin' Heads and the single "Peaceful World". [1] She began her career as a violinist for John Mellencamp. Joan Baez is a 66-year-old woman and the sweetest gal in the world.[80]. Mellencamp played for over two hours and included 24 songs in his setlist on the tour. There would be four or five days like that when I would be completely gone. I haven't done one in five years. 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. [57], Mellencamp's musical style has been described as rock,[55][58] heartland rock,[59] roots rock,[55][60] and folk rock. keyboards, organ, backing vocals (19962002), This page was last edited on 12 February 2023, at 20:36. USA Today wrote: "The musical high point in a night of many highlights was probably John Mellencamp's interpretation of 'Highway 61 Revisited;' with a vocal tone and timbre that channeled Tom Waits', he made this usually scorching rocker into a blues dirge. "Initially, I wanted to make a record that barely had drums on it. His portraiture evolved to a personal style that some critics describe as similar to the dark and shadowy paintings of the German Expressionists. The album was released on September 23, 2014. 21) and "Rumble Seat" (No. In 1982 Michael Porcaro joined as bassist. And then it just kept evolving and evolving and evolving, and the songs that she was bringing and the songs that I was bringingthey weren't so religious. News: Visit Mellencamp.com's NEWS section for all of the latest updates! Happy Go Lucky spawned the No. [41], In two separate 2018 television interviews, Mellencamp teased a musical he is working on based on his 1982 No. 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). In 1985, Mellencamp released Scarecrow, which peaked at No. "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 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). 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.' "I started messing around with oil paints when I was about ten but, you know, without instruction," he remembers. 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. Fogerty would join Mellencamp for duets on Fogerty's Creedence Clearwater Revival hit "Green River" and Mellencamp's "Rain on the Scarecrow". 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. I'm gonna come out and play with upright bass and cocktail [drum] kits and a lot of acoustic instruments. 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