I was hit by lightning by that concert. The Farm Aid concerts remain an annual event and have raised over $60million for struggling family farmers as of 2022[update]. I haven't done one in five years. Mellencamp also tried to control how his band members cut loose. Learning those opened the band's vision to try new things on my songs. [98] In November 2018, the couple became engaged. We asked why and they said, 'She can't fit here, period.' "It's very rock 'n' roll", Mellencamp said of Whenever We Wanted: "I just wanted to get back to the basics. Like Freedom's Road, Life, Death, Love and Freedom also sold 56,000 copies in its first week. (1/1) Thadrequet: Jon E. Gee Talks about Doing the Extra to Stand Above the Rest. "[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 told Rolling Stone magazine: They didn't give me a reason why she couldn't come. He is known for his catchy brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. 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've known George since we were in the same Sunday school class. In April 2007, Mellencamp performed for wounded troops at the Walter Reed Medical Center. 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. [68], Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2008. ", Mellencamp has also honed his skills by his own self-education in art history, visiting museums across Europe and America whenever he was on tour and studying a broad spectrum of artists and the mechanics of their work and by looking at signs and billboards out the windows of cars and buses while crisscrossing the country. The album was scheduled for release in 2020, but the pandemic pushed its release time frame back indefinitely. 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]. Remembering the John Mellencamp Band Dean Lozovitsky Nov 27, 2002 0 John Mellencamp is as ubiquitous in Indiana as: Larry Bird, the IRL, monoculture? It had to be from hearing those old records. 14), and "Rooty Toot Toot" (No. We had a lot of fun together when we were kids. "But we took it further than an urban record. John Mellencamp wrote every note everything the tiny little needle drops you hear in the back. John Mellencamp Community February 10, 2023, 08:08:31 am Welcome, Guest. 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. John Cougar. So that was what I had to do but I thought the name was pretty silly."[9]. "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. [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. 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. 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). 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. He also revealed that the album had the working title of Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. I love John a lot. John Cougar Mellencamp . Strictly a One-Eyed Jack was released on January 21, 2022. Mellencamp has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. On February 27, 2020, Mellencamp's official social media accounts confirmed that he was currently recording an album at his Belmont Mall recording studio. . That was when we became friends, when I went to Indiana and recorded with him and the guys this really cool song called 'Sugar Hill Mountain' that's in the movie. Theres no difference. So next year, hopefully, well be on top of (the pandemic) and itll feel alright to go out. [49]. That heart attack eventually forced him to cancel the last few weeks of the tour. Mellencamp has won one Grammy Award (Best Male Rock Performer for "Hurts So Good" in 1983) and been nominated for 12 others. Im talking to you about a record (Strictly a One-Eyed Jack) thats been done for about a year and a half, so Im already on to my new songs not as a job, just as they come. [8] Mellencamp reluctantly agreed, but the album was a commercial failure, selling only 12,000 copies. On December 30, 2010, Mellencamp announced that he and Irwin had separated after 18 years of marriage. "I agonized", Mellencamp told USA Today's Edna Gundersen in 2007 over his decision to license "Our Country" to Chevrolet. Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town is featured in the video. It wasn't like the title was made up it wasn't supposed to be punky or cocky like some people thought. On January 18, 2009, Mellencamp performed "Pink Houses" at the Obama inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. But we don't have to worry about money or record companies it's our own money we're putting into it, so we said, let's just make something beautiful., Ryan D'Agostino of Esquire stated in a review of a New York rehearsal of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County in the fall of 2007, "Musicals aren't usually a guy thing. "I was up to 80 cigarettes a day," Mellencamp told the Boston Herald in September 1996 about the habits that led to his heart malfunction two years beforehand. So they were eliminated, and it didnt take me long to make that decision. "To me, this record is very urban," Mellencamp told Billboard magazine of Human Wheels in the summer of 1993. [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. 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. Mellencamp recorded The Kid Inside, the follow-up to Chestnut Street Incident, in 1977, but DeFries eventually decided against releasing the album, and Mellencamp was dropped from MCA records (DeFries finally released The Kid Inside in early 1983, after Mellencamp achieved stardom). 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. [46], In May 2021, Mellencamp revealed that he recently finished the album and that Bruce Springsteen would make a guest appearance on the project. 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". News: Visit Mellencamp.com's NEWS section for all of the latest updates! "[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. In 2015, Urban and Mellencamp performed "Pink Houses" together twice during nationally televised events. 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. 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. He was born with spina bifida, for which he had corrective surgery as an infant. There would be four or five days like that when I would be completely gone. [31][32] Mellencamp and Carter's duets album, titled Sad Clowns & Hillbillies, was released on April 28, 2017. 1 on Billboard's Blues Album charts. [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. John Cougar Mellencamp . Mellencamp would play a handful of songs before introducing Donovan and then duetting with him on the 1966 hit "Sunshine Superman". "[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]. 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. 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. You can't be 22 years old and had two dates and understand that album. Mellencamp and Green had a falling out in the early 2000s, and Green ultimately moved from Bloomington, Indiana to Taos, New Mexico in 2001. I ain't lying. Issued a day before his 47th birthday in 1998, his self-titled debut for Columbia Records included the singles "Your Life Is Now" and "I'm Not Running Anymore", along with standout album tracks such as "Eden Is Burning", "Miss Missy", "It All Comes True" and "Chance Meeting at the Tarantula". I'm gonna come out and play with upright bass and cocktail [drum] kits and a lot of acoustic instruments. Pat Benatar recorded "I Need a Lover" on her debut album In the Heat of the Night. This country's been hijacked. But I want to do it this way, and if I can't do what I want at this point, I'm not going to do it. The record wasn't released in the United States, but it yielded a top-five hit in Australia with "I Need a Lover". Album Rock Heartland Rock Roots Rock Contemporary Pop/Rock Contemporary Folk Contemporary Singer/Songwriter Rock & Roll Bar Band Hard Rock. You'll get three different types of John Mellencamp, and you'll get a movie.". Current Members Of John's Band? [43] Springsteen himself provided additional details on his collaboration with Mellencamp on his Sirius XM radio station on June 10, 2021, saying: "I worked on three songs on Johns album and I spent some time in Indiana with him. That's rock 'n' roll at its very core. Mellencamp, who works in a very different, very personal idiom, makes plainspoken paintings, he says, because he's a plainspoken man. John Mellencamp - Artist Details. It was singularly the most important concert I've ever been to in my life because it showed me the way.[63][64]. During the next forty years, the events of that night became the stuff of local legend. "All the vocals are first or second takes, and half the songs don't even have bass parts. [65], On September 9, 2010, Mellencamp received the Americana Lifetime Achievement Award in Nashville. [56], Johnny Cash called Mellencamp "one of the 10 best songwriters" in music. I sang a little bit on his record. Please login or register . It wasn't just me. This one, though, is not only tolerable, it's good. 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. The musical debuted in the spring of 2012 at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, where it ran from April 4 through May 13. 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. It was just a terrible lifestyle. 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. Forget about the play, just the songs, the way these people sing them. No Better Than This was released on August 17, 2010, and peaked at No. In my own way I have tried to address these issues in song. People are scared, and people are angry. 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. [34][35] Carter was featured on only five of Sad Clowns & Hillbillies' 13 tracks and contributed to the writing of just two songs. I wrote all the songs, 17 songs. 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'. In 1982 Michael Porcaro joined as bassist. ", 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. [41], In two separate 2018 television interviews, Mellencamp teased a musical he is working on based on his 1982 No. They don't care how they hear it as long as they hear it good and loud and clear the way you've always been saying it all along. His next effort, Nothing Matters and What If . Mellencamp came to New York in the mid-1970s with the intention of studying painting if his music career aspirations didn't pan out. 2 and 16 weeks in the top 10, and "Jack & Diane", which was a No. 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! 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. I can tell you theres a couple good songs already that I thought, Wow, did I write that fuckin song? It cost $280,000, do you believe that? In 2010, Mellencamp's music was used by the National Organization for Marriage at events opposing same-sex marriage. Surely you can find 12-to-15 songs that will work."[43]. To kiss somebody's ass? The play is called "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County", about two brothers who hate each other. In an "Open Letter to America" on his website, Mellencamp stated: The Governor of California was removed from office based on finance troubles. Mellencamp's band provided the backing on both tracks and performed all the music that is in the movie. 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. 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. "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. Mellencamp has also stated that he's already working on the follow-up to Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. In May 2000, he gave the Indiana University commencement address, in which he advised graduates to "play it like you feel it!" "[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. 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. "[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. October 7, 1951 in Seymour, IN. ', "JOHN MELLENCAMP'S 'PLAIN SPOKEN' CONCERT FILM HEADED TO NETFLIX", John Mellencamp Debuts at No. "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. A national treasure, he's also one of the truly great music creators that can make us care, move, clap and sing along. [5] Riva Records added "I Need a Lover" to Mellencamp's next album released in the United States, 1979's John Cougar, where the song became a No. 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. 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. In his music, mortality, anxiety, acts of God, questions of romance and brotherhood, and crises of conscience all collide and demand hard decisions. 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. Mellencamp performed "Small Town" at a Barack Obama rally in Evansville, Indiana on April 22, the night of the 2008 Pennsylvania primary. They need to hear it. "I see sadness in the world," Mellencamp says. "On this record, we ended up quite a bit away from where we started", Mellencamp told Guitar World Acoustic in 1998. [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. Her album Geek the Girl (1994) was chosen as a top album of the 1990s by Spin magazine. I'm sitting there listening to it and thinking, "Did Rosanne Cash just kill that song or what!" 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. 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. He's young, and he grew up listening to Grand Funk Railroad. I could have done this in my studio. Mike Wanchic Mike Wanchic, John's long time guitarist, recently completed production on singer/songwriter Stoll Vaughan's latest album The Conversation. 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. New Releases . Freedom's Road peaked at No. I went to New York and everybody said, 'You sound like a hillbilly.' In 2001, Billboard magazine editor-in-chief Timothy White said: John Mellencamp is arguably the most important roots rocker of his generation. We had Kris Kristofferson, Neko Case, Elvis Costello, Taj Mahal, all singing different characters' roles. I said to John, 'I didn't walk away thinking: I want to do that. How is it that he hasn't been recalled? ", 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. [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. A former keyboardist. 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? 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.". Cuttin' Heads also included a duet with Trisha Yearwood on a love song called "Deep Blue Heart". 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. The album was released on September 23, 2014. 28 single in late 1979. In this article, Troye talks about several different aspects of being in John's band. 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. In 1991, Mellencamp said: "'Big Daddy' was the best record I ever made. Happy Go Lucky, which was produced by Junior Vasquez, was released to critical acclaim. Our band features a Grammy award winner to those that have toured with some of the biggest names in the industry. Now, in the past, it was always 'Let's make it up as we go along' and we did make some of The Lonesome Jubilee up as we went along. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer brought his North American tour . Mellencamp and Green's final collaboration was "Yours Forever", a song that was included on the soundtrack to the 2000 movie, The Perfect Storm. Take an old Rascals song for example there's everything from marching band beats to soul music to country sounds in one song. You know it, and I know it. The album, which was released on July 15, 2008, was produced by T Bone Burnett. Mellencamp embarked on the Cuttin' Heads Tour in the summer of 2001, before the album was even released. Following the delivery of his address, Indiana University bestowed upon him an honorary Doctorate of Musical Arts. When we walked out onstage, there wasn't a band on Earth to touch us. John Cougar. After a while, we didn't even have to talk about it anymore. On October 6, 2008, Mellencamp won the prestigious Classic Songwriter Award at the 2008 Q Awards in London, England. 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart by selling 56,000 copies in its first week on the market. "Everything is a possible song. (The song would later be included, in a re-recorded version, on Mellencamp's 2017 album Sad Clowns & Hillbillies.) His older brother, Joe Mellencamp, appears in Falling from Grace as the bandleader during the country club scene along with his band Pure Jam. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. It originated when Mellencamp's Lonesome Jubilee tour went to Australia in 1988 - Urban was in attendance at one of the concerts and described the experience as an "epiphany. Mellencamp's interest in painting began in early life but was superseded in the 1980s by his skyrocketing musical career. Mellencamp has sold over 30 million albums in the US and over 60 million worldwide. The CD will come out ahead of time. Me and the guys in the band thought we were finished, anyway. [27], Outside of the Plain Spoken Tour, Mellencamp's most noteworthy live performance in 2015 came on February 6, when he paid tribute to Bob Dylan at the annual MusiCares Person of the Year event by performing a piano-and-vocal rendition of "Highway 61 Revisited" (the piano was played by Troye Kinnett from Mellencamp's band). [44], "I'm halfway done with the [new] record then the virus hit and I haven't been in the studio since the virus started," Mellencamp told Spin magazine in a feature that was published on Thanksgiving Day 2020. 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. In 1980, Mellencamp returned with the Steve Cropper-produced Nothin' Matters and What If It Did, which yielded two Top 40 singles "This Time" (No. Urban's 2015 hit single "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" further illustrated Mellencamp's influence on his music. "[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. He wrote about half of it after I read him the script, and then the next half after he saw the movie. Home Help Search Login Register John Mellencamp Community > MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION > The Band > Current Members Of John's Band? 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. 7 on the Billboard 200 the week of August 2, 2008. 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. 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. In addition to the exhibitions listed above, Mellencamp was part of a group show at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Germano played with Mellencamp from 1985-1993 before leaving in 1994 to pursue a solo career. 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. Mellencamp confessed in a 2005 interview: "That [name] was put on me by some manager. 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. 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. 17). Upcoming John Mellencamp tour dates, ticket links and venue information 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. News: Visit Mellencamp.com's NEWS section for all of the latest updates! He's played with the likes of John Mellencamp, Paul McCartney, Sting, Bon Jovi, Elton John, The Smashing Pumpkins, MeatloafThe list goes . Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. "[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. . (T Bone) produced. But in the years that followed, the family has endured the worst of times. This is rock music that tells the truth on both its composer and the culture he's observing.[55]. So I just put those songs on a shelf, and cut it back down to a single record. 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. "For the first time ever, we talked about the record before we started. The documentary is narrated by Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey, who is an avowed Mellencamp fan.[46]. 9), "Cherry Bomb" (No. "I started messing around with oil paints when I was about ten but, you know, without instruction," he remembers. "Do you guys know who Orpheus was? 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