When music legend John Mellencamp rocked the downtown venue nearly 20 years , The Sault Star’s Jeffrey Ougler was there – and perhaps a little hard of hearing for a few days afterward. Here is ...

Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp poses for a portrait at the Greenwich Hotel, on Sept. 22, 2014 in New York. Mellencamp’s 1985 album “Scarecrow” is being reissued this week.

There, he met a young guy recording demos at the time named Johnny Mellencamp, before adopting the animalistic stage name John Cougar for the debut album “Chestnut Street Incident” (1976).

MELLENCAMP: That - this is my party song, you know, when they hand me a guitar and say, John, play something. (Playing guitar, singing) Everybody's laughing at the Early Bird Cafe.

John Mellencamp revisits 'Scarecrow,' his ... An urgency in the ringing guitar and thunderous drums that opened the 1985 album “Scarecrow” was the first hint that this was something ...