John Cougar Mellencamp

Essential Albums

  • The Lonesome Jubilee (Bonus Track) [2005 Remaster]
    The Lonesome Jubilee (Bonus Track) [2005 Remaster]

    1987

  • Scarecrow (Bonus Track) [2005 Remaster]
    Scarecrow (Bonus Track) [2005 Remaster]

    Released in 1985, at the peak of the decade’s neon garishness, John Mellencamp’s Scarecrow comes off like a tight Saturday night set played at the local VFW hall. “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” nails a balance of ’60s energy and ’80s grit. Meanwhile, the haunting-but-wholesome “Rain on the Scarecrow” is both celebration and elegy for an endangered American farm culture. At the album’s core is “Small Town”, a three-chord anthem that marries the gleaming melodicism of The Byrds to Woody Guthrie’s rustic simplicity.

  • Uh-Huh! (Bonus Track) [2005 Remaster]
    Uh-Huh! (Bonus Track) [2005 Remaster]

    1983

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About John Cougar Mellencamp

HOMETOWN
Seymour, IN, United States
BORN
7 October 1951
GENRE
Rock

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