Released in 1985, the album found Mellencamp concentrating on writing his best-yet batch of songs and recording them in no-frills but affecting fashion.

John Mellencamp would like you to behave. Or ‘don’t come to my show.’ The Indiana country-rocker is on the Outlaw Music Festival bill playing Monday in Chula Vista ...

What is John Mellencamp's net worth? The American singer and songwriter has made a significant amount from his career.

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 ...

Wanchic joined Mellencamp’s band full time in 1978, meaning he was there for the early albums “A Biography” (1978), “John Cougar” (1979) and “Nothin’ Matters and What if It Did ...

John Mellencamp is a septuagenarian, a thrice-divorced grandfather and a chain smoker. He’s a liberal activist and a painter who’s never moved out of ruby-red Indiana.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and his six-piece band took audiences back to the Cherry Bomb and Tastee Freez during a night of hits.

Forty-seven years on since his debut album, the Indiana singer, songwriter and painter still puts on a rock ‘n’ roll show of the roof-raising variety. Mellencamp and his cracking six-me… ...

The irascible rocker, now 71, reflects on how America plays into his music, his relationship to his biggest hits and his latest album, “Orpheus Descending.” ...

The link between Hoosier rock star and Fred Booker runs all the way back to Southern Indiana in the 1960s, when they were co-lead singers in a Seymour-based band called The Crape Soul.

The link between Hoosier rock star and Fred Booker runs all the way back to Southern Indiana in the 1960s, when they were co-lead singers in a Seymour-based band called The Crape Soul.

John Mellencamp dared ask a recurring question Thursday at a sold-out Chicago Theatre: What kind of country do we want? Playing the first date of a three-night stand, the singer-songwriter put ...