Scrappy John Mellencamp Is Everywhere in Country Music: ‘There’s a Part of Us That All Want to Be Like Him’ Baked into the foundation of any art form is the knowledge that everything new is ...

Recorded hastily in a dilapidated farmhouse between Brownstown and Seymour, the album, which was released under the artist name of John Cougar Mellencamp, continued his chart success by reaching ...

John Mellencamp is back with his twenty-third album. In this wide-ranging interview one of America's finest songwriters opens up on art, music, songwriting and the changing music business.

John Mellencamp has become world-renowned for his paintings, ... liked his voice and wanted to sign him. Art school, John discovered, ... “This country was founded on violence, ...

John Mellencamp is one of American’s ... tableau is consistent with Mellencamp’s stock-in-trade as an artist ... 40 years and his work is both acclaimed and prized in his home country.

Two recent country smashes, Keith Urban’s “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16,” and Jake Owen’s “I Was Jack (You Were Diane),” evoke his name and music in the context of innocence ...

A common theme from his art and music that Mellencamp covered at the event was the “American Dream” and failures. Growing up in Seymour, Indiana, he said he had no idea what that notion meant ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — On a breezy Sunday afternoon in May — a day off from his Live and in Person tour — John Mellencamp descended the golf cart he uses to navigate his expansive, sylvan ...

These days, Mellencamp has been retconned as a quasi-country artist, both as an influence on artists like Eric Church, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, and Justin Moore, and as a nostalgic reference ...

The song is Mellencamp's "reflection on the state of our country," reads a statement on his official website John Mellencamp is getting political. The heartland rocker is releasing a new song and ...

Nearly 36 years ago, John Mellencamp stood among 10,000 family farmers and their supporters in Chillicothe, Mo., his shaggy hair flying in the hot May wind. “I’m not here against any specific ...

Since the arrival of John Mellencamp — previously known as Johnny Cougar — in 1976, he has amassed a catalog of hits and became a cultural influence and touchstone. “Country artists are ...