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. Mike Wanchic Mike Wanchic, John's long time guitarist, recently completed production on singer/songwriter Stoll Vaughan's latest album The Conversation. Later on, we wrote some really good songs together," Mellencamp told the Bloomington Herald Times shortly after Green's death. ", Mellencamp's 1994 Dance Naked album included a cover of Van Morrison's "Wild Night" as a duet with Meshell Ndegeocello. Im already writing songs for another record, so thats how far ahead I am, Mellencamp said. His manager dubbed him Johnny Cougar out . "We had a lot of discussions about the rhythm and blues music of the day. 17). Throughout his life, however, Mellencamp has continued to seriously explore painting. Related Blog Posts. [57], Mellencamp's musical style has been described as rock,[55][58] heartland rock,[59] roots rock,[55][60] and folk rock. At Gaff's request, Mellencamp moved to London, England, for nearly a year to record, promote, and tour behind 1978's A Biography. Troye Kinnett grew up near Muncie, Ind. "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. [100], In April 2020, it was reported that Mellencamp has been dating skincare expert Jamie Sherrill since the beginning of the year. 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"). "[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". 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. 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. The arrangements are more ambitious, with programs and loops going right along with real drums and guitars.". In addition to the exhibitions listed above, Mellencamp was part of a group show at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 912 Concerts. '"[19] (In 2021, Mellencamp would partner with Turner Classic Movies to release a documentary of the tour on YouTube. [3] On August 30, 2018, Mellencamp was bestowed with the Woody Guthrie Prize in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The albums second single, "Chasing Rainbows", was released on December 10, 2021. In 1989, he was part of a two-man show with jazz legend Miles Davis at The Triangle Gallery in Los Angeles. 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. "His infectious melodies and compassionate lyrics, wrapped in workingman's rock, crystallize life's joys and struggles and illuminate the human condition. 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.' [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. Mellencamp performed "Small Town" at a Barack Obama rally in Evansville, Indiana on April 22, the night of the 2008 Pennsylvania primary. In April 2007, Mellencamp performed for wounded troops at the Walter Reed Medical Center. 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 The songs are both haunting and all-American. 28 single in late 1979. 7 on the Billboard 200 the week of August 2, 2008. They're recording the dialogue now and we're putting out a record of the entire show before it comes out. He brought the No Better Than This tour to Europe in the summer of 2011, opening in Copenhagen on June 24. "Nobody's selling anything, there's no souvenirsexcept what's in everybody's heart", Mellencamp told Billboard magazine. Former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty said of Mellencamp: John is one of the great American songwriters and a great rock spirit. 1990 - Larry Crane on Collaborating with John Mellencamp, Going Solo TheClassicSports 32.3K subscribers 6.8K views 6 years ago This interview was (I'm betting) done for cable access TV in. "[5], During his college years, Mellencamp played in several local bands, including the glitter-band Trash, which was named for a New York Dolls song, and he later got a job in Seymour installing telephones. I mean, we were really good. In 1988, Rolling Stone magazine called this version of Mellencamp's band "one of the most powerful and versatile live bands ever assembled." 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. Band Member Spotlight - Jon E. Gee. Mr. Former John Mellencamp keyboardist, first-ever child porn suspect on FBI list pleads guilty by: Associated Press. [102], Since college, Mellencamp (with the exception of a continuing addiction to nicotine) has lived a drug and alcohol-free lifestyle. 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 participated in a tribute concert for Pete Seeger's 90th birthday on May 3, 2009, at Madison Square Garden in New York City which raised funds for an environmental organization founded by Seeger to preserve and protect the Hudson River. Oct 07, 2022 [94], In September 2015, Mellencamp reportedly started dating former supermodel Christie Brinkley. Mellencamp and Green had a falling out in the early 2000s, and Green ultimately moved from Bloomington, Indiana to Taos, New Mexico in 2001. He's a Grammy-winner and the recipient of numerous awards including The Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck Awards, ASCAP Foundation's Champion Award and their highest honor the Founders Award, the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting and . 1 hit "Jack & Diane". 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. All of that failure and frustration had energized every guy in the band to the infantile level of, 'We're going to show 'em all they were wrong.' In its list of the 50 best albums of 2008, Rolling Stone magazine named Life, Death, Love and Freedom No. "[16] In his second painting exhibition, at the Churchman-Fehsenfeld Gallery in Indianapolis in 1990, Mellencamp's portraits were described as always having sad facial expressions and conveying "the same disillusionment found in his musical anthems about the nation's heartland and farm crisis. Fogerty would join Mellencamp for duets on Fogerty's Creedence Clearwater Revival hit "Green River" and Mellencamp's "Rain on the Scarecrow". A former keyboardist. The tour will mark the return of violinist Lisa Germano to Mellencamp's band. His professional music career began in earnest in 1976 when MCA Records released his first album, The Chestnut Street Incident. 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. 48 among the 100 best singles of the year. ", 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. Ghost Brothers of Darkland County received mixed reviews upon its initial run in Atlanta. 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. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee John Mellencamp has announced a massive North American tour, dubbed Live and In Person 2023. [92], Mellencamp has five children from his three marriages: daughter Michelle from his marriage to Esterline; daughters Teddi Jo and Justice from his marriage to Granucci; and sons Hud and Speck from his marriage to Irwin. 8), "Check It Out" (No. You're the one that's going to pay the consequences. I can tell you theres a couple good songs already that I thought, Wow, did I write that fuckin song? ", Nationally known art writer Lilly Wei, who interviewed Mellencamp for Studio International, also wrote a brief essay, in which she points out, "Mellencamp is a writer and often uses words in his paintings, from the graffiti scribbled across earlier work inspired by what he saw in the streets and Jean-Michel Basquiat to his present versions of text painting, a genre that is increasingly commonplace in works by artists such as Lawrence Weiner, Richard Prince, Glenn Ligon and Christopher Wool. Remembering the John Mellencamp Band Dean Lozovitsky Nov 27, 2002 0 John Mellencamp is as ubiquitous in Indiana as: Larry Bird, the IRL, monoculture? 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). As of 2018, she has released thirteen albums. His work has also been exhibited at Herron School of Art and Design, a division of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. On February 27, 2020, Mellencamp's official social media accounts confirmed that he was currently recording an album at his Belmont Mall recording studio. "[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. The record wasn't released in the United States, but it yielded a top-five hit in Australia with "I Need a Lover". He is of Dutch ancestry. Official website of Legendary singer songwriter John Mellencamp. Orpheus Descending will be released in February 2023. 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. 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." They need to hear it. [21], On July 8, 2014, Mellencamp released a new live album called Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall without any advance notice. "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. Mellencamp, who co-headlined 11 shows in the summer of 2010 with Bob Dylan, launched the No Better Than This theater tour on October 29, 2010, in Bloomington, Indiana. 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. 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. On December 30, 2010, Mellencamp announced that he and Irwin had separated after 18 years of marriage. "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." They depict existential scenes and human beings ridden with the angst of the everyday. So that's where he came up with that name. He's always been somewhat feisty, and his 'Authority Song' tells that story. The singer's $30 million fortune isn't just down to his career as a musician, either. Learning those opened the band's vision to try new things on my songs. Also Known As. Mellencamp and Green's final collaboration was "Yours Forever", a song that was included on the soundtrack to the 2000 movie, The Perfect Storm. 21) and "Rumble Seat" (No. 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. Like Freedom's Road, Life, Death, Love and Freedom also sold 56,000 copies in its first week. "To me, this record is very urban," Mellencamp told Billboard magazine of Human Wheels in the summer of 1993. Each member of the band has many years of not only experience, but has a heart to deliver the best possible experience. 1:07. A third single, "Hand to Hold on To", made it to No. "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. John Mellencamp - Artist Details. Im gonna err on the side of caution, Mellencamp told Billboard Magazine. 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. How is it that he hasn't been recalled? To bend over? Said Carter in 2015: "The way John Mellencamp and I met was he invited me to come and sing this song he had written for the movie that Meg Ryan has coming out called Ithaca. I said to John, 'I didn't walk away thinking: I want to do that. During the next forty years, the events of that night became the stuff of local legend. 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. George has written some great lyrics and we've written some great songs together, but I just couldn't do it any more. It wasn't like the title was made up it wasn't supposed to be punky or cocky like some people thought. 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]. Pepper' of Americana to me. It was just a terrible lifestyle. [65], On September 9, 2010, Mellencamp received the Americana Lifetime Achievement Award in Nashville. When I put it together it felt like John Huston sent me all these songs. He's young, and he grew up listening to Grand Funk Railroad. "I agonized", Mellencamp told USA Today's Edna Gundersen in 2007 over his decision to license "Our Country" to Chevrolet. 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. 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. [36], When debuting "Easy Target" on January 19, Mellencamp delivered insights into Sad Clowns & Hillbillies: "It's crazy the way it startedit was going to be a religious record. "[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. Prior to the 198586 Scarecrow Tour, during which he covered some of the same 1960s rock and soul songs he and his band rehearsed prior to the recording of Scarecrow, Mellencamp added fiddle player Lisa Germano to his band. ), 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". 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. 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. 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. This is rock music that tells the truth on both its composer and the culture he's observing.[55]. Cuttin' Heads also included a duet with Trisha Yearwood on a love song called "Deep Blue Heart". ", A full-color 48-page catalogue with the aforementioned essay by Sheets accompanied the exhibition. On albums like Scarecrow (1985), The Lonesome Jubilee (1987) and Big Daddy (1989), Mellencamp helped pioneer the sound of alternative country or No Depression, music that combines the truth-telling force of hard-core country with the instrumental attack of rock & roll. The musical debuted in the spring of 2012 at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, where it ran from April 4 through May 13. 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. 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. "Do you guys know who Orpheus was? Mellencamp would play a handful of songs before introducing Donovan and then duetting with him on the 1966 hit "Sunshine Superman". No Better Than This was released on August 17, 2010, and peaked at No. "For the first time ever, we talked about the record before we started. in the U.S.A. (A Salute to '60s Rock)" (No. Mellencamp sang the hymn "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" at "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" on February 9, 2010. "Neither candidate is as liberal as he would prefer, but he's happy to contribute what he can", Merlis said. 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. Explore John Mellencamp's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. An exhibit of Mellencamp's paintings, titled "American Dreams: Paintings by John Mellencamp", was on view at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia from January 11 to April 12, 2015. His original intent was to duet on the Freedom's Road track Jim Crow" with singer and activist Joan Baez. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. I was hit by lightning by that concert. Submit Corrections. It may be the first-ever musical written by men for men. 15 hit "Authority Song", which he said is "our version of 'I Fought the Law'." That's rock 'n' roll at its very core. Mellencamp's version featured new lyrics that reflected the racial conflicts in the U.S. in the wake of the murder of George Floyd while in custody of Minneapolis police officers. (1/1) Thadrequet: Jon E. Gee Talks about Doing the Extra to Stand Above the Rest. Right now, Elvis Costello, Meg Ryan, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey are doing table readings like an old radio play. . You hear it, and it's like 'where did that come from?' [45], In an extensive update on his website, Mellencamp said one of the songs he wrote record is called "I Always Lie to Strangers", and he shared a one-minute snippet of it on February 3, 2021. So many people are involved, it's taken a long time. "[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]. [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. and that "you'll be all right". [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. We explored what a lot of these (current) bands are doing these young black bands that are doing more than just sampling. His older brother, Joe Mellencamp, appears in Falling from Grace as the bandleader during the country club scene along with his band Pure Jam. It was singularly the most important concert I've ever been to in my life because it showed me the way.[63][64]. 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. If you listen to the lead Larry [Crane] plays on 'Face of the Nation,' he never would have played that 'cause he didn't really know who the Animals were. 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. 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.". 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. [2] Early life [ edit] He intended for Freedom's Road to have a 1960s rock sound while still remaining contemporary, and he feels that goal was achieved. Urban has covered numerous Mellencamp songs in his concerts over the years, including "Hurts So Good", "Jack and Diane", "Authority Song", and "Rumble Seat". "Everything is a possible song. Army officials barred Baez from performing, however. ", "The songwriting and the painting are very closely knitted together," says Mellencamp, who often will pick up his guitar or start a canvas without premeditation and see what suggests itself to him. A national treasure, he's also one of the truly great music creators that can make us care, move, clap and sing along. 2 and 16 weeks in the top 10, and "Jack & Diane", which was a No. 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. Now, we weren't playing the best songs in the world. Rees gets some humorous comments from Mellencamp band members who were instructed to and had to sign a form saying they would not be within 250 feet of Dylanor even look him in the eye! Take an election; take an oil field; take advantage of your own people a game of political Three-Card Monte.[79]. I wish I would've been able to enjoy it, but I was too busy slugging. We had a very distinct vision of what should be happening here. Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1980, Mellencamp turned down the lead role in the movie The Idolmaker because, as he told the Toledo Blade in 1983, "I was afraid that if I made too much money, I'd have no motivation to make records anymore. 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. For Mellencamp, painting has always been a refuge, a solitary antidote to the hectic life of touring and performing. He later studied with Jan Royce from the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Trouble No More was released in 2003, dedicated to Mellencamp's friend Timothy White, and spent several weeks at No. 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. Album Rock Heartland Rock Roots Rock Contemporary Pop/Rock Contemporary Folk Contemporary Singer/Songwriter Rock & Roll Bar Band Hard Rock. 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. I wrote all the songs, 17 songs. Mellencamp has made several forays into acting over the years, appearing in four films: Falling from Grace (which he also directed) (1992), Madison (2005, narration only), After Image (2001), and Lone Star State of Mind (2002). John's band members have been working on some non Mellencamp related projects check out their updates below. It cost $280,000, do you believe that? The program aired on December 11, 2008, and also featured an in-depth documentary tracing Mellencamp's roots. I've recorded 10 and I have 17 more to do and I'll pick 10 of the 27 songs". Pat Benatar recorded "I Need a Lover" on her debut album In the Heat of the Night. John J. Mellencamp [1] (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American singer-songwriter. The question is whether or not he can bring himself to tell the truth in time to save his own troubled sons, and whether the ghosts left behind by an act of violence will help him or tear the McCandless family apart forever. "I see sadness in the world," Mellencamp says. Mellencamp came to New York in the mid-1970s with the intention of studying painting if his music career aspirations didn't pan out. We had a lot of fun together when we were kids. 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. [95] In August 2016, the couple's publicist confirmed they had broken up. 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'. 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