In 1988, when Urban was playing in a bar band in Australia, he watched Mellencamp on the Lonesome Jubilee tour from the nosebleeds. At the time, Urban said he wasn’t sure what direction he ...

So don’t look for a 40th anniversary roadshow of his quintuple-platinum-selling 1985 landmark “Scarecrow” next year, or one for its triple-platinum 1987 follow-up “The Lonesome Jubilee ...

Myers joined Mellencamp’s band in 1982 and performed on multiplatinum albums such as 1983’s Uh-Huh, 1985’s Scarecrow and 1987 ...

Records such as 1985’s Scarecrow and 1987’s The Lonesome Jubilee were multi-platinum blockbusters and also critically acclaimed. Yet Mellencamp never seemed to be satisfied.

Near the end of a two-hour set, as Mellencamp introduced the band, he explained how guitarist Mike Wanchic has been at his side for 50 years. The bandleader wanted to play more songs on this tour ...

Long-time bandmember and violinist, Lisa Germano, introduced a spoken-word version of the song “The Real Life” from Mellencamp’s 1987 release “Lonesome Jubilee.” ...

At one point during John Mellencamp’s concert at the Wang Theatre in Boston Saturday ... “Check It Out,” his hit from 1987’s “The Lonesome Jubilee,” is not exactly a rip-roaring ...

All of those numbers hailed from Mellencamp’s two ’80s albums — “Scarecrow” and “The Lonesome Jubilee” — which rank as the finest outings in his entire catalog.

John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson and ... He’s quit the music business who knows how many times and is back on tour now, ... or one for its triple-platinum 1987 follow-up “The Lonesome Jubilee ...