JOHN MELLENCAMP, PAINTER Read More » The post JOHN MELLENCAMP, PAINTER appeared first on SPIN. In his early 20s, having just graduated from Vincennes University in his home state of Indiana, ...

John Mellencamp is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. Mellencamp spent his childhood in Seymour, Indiana, ... (1983), Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987).

Grunge blew up with the Seattle Four, thrash metal rose to fame with the Big Four, and when it comes to Heartland rock, though the four are not as definitive as the Seattle Four or Big Four, the genre ...

After a few hit singles, he broke out in 1985 with the album Scarecrow, recording under the name John Cougar Mellencamp. For his next album, The Lonesome Jubilee, another massive hit, he dropped ...

“Paper in Fire,” (from The Lonesome Jubilee, 1987) Now hitting the peak of his 80s fame, John Mellencamp was blending rock and roots into his own kind of American music.

When he began recording The Lonesome Jubilee in September 1986, John Cougar Mellencamp pushed his band to record a song daily. Some tunes would take shape immediately and finish in a couple of hours.

Nostalgia runs deep on the second single from The Lonesome Jubilee. According to John Cougar Mellencamp (his stage name at the time), the song is about his teenage years, growing up, hanging out ...

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 ...

The Lonesome Jubilee introduced a new direction for Mellencamp. When the band reconvened, guitarist Larry Crane started playing pedal and lap steel, guitarist Mike Wanchic began playing dulcimer ...