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 ...

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.” She explained how John ...

he watched Mellencamp on the Lonesome Jubilee tour from the nosebleeds. At the time, Urban said he wasn’t sure what direction he should take in his life and career. “John walks out onstage ...

John Mellencamp is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. Mellencamp spent his childhood in Seymour, Indiana, and graduated from Vincennes University, where he studied communications. He played in ...

Before John Mellencamp took the stage at the Boch ... borrowed for a song from one of his best albums, “The Lonesome Jubilee” (1987). “Hud” (1963), the generation-gap Western that starred ...

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 ...