![]() cities as a "radio play" in the fall of 2013 and toured 18 more cities across the U.S. ![]() He brought the No Better Than This tour to Europe in the summer of 2011, opening in Copenhagen on June 24. Pat Benatar recorded "I Need a Lover" on her debut album In the Heat of the Night. 7 on the Billboard 200 the week of August 2, 2008. During the pandemic, Mellencamp wrote at least 15 songs. The soundtrack includes Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Elvis Costello, Taj Mahal, Ryan Bingham, Will Dailey and Neko Case among others singing the songs Mellencamp wrote. Known over the course of his successful four-decade music career for his acutely observed songs about the American landscape and its cast of characters, Mellencamp has been equally productive as a painter mining similar terrain. No Better Than This is the first mono-only release to make the top 10 since James Brown's Pure Dynamite! On February 27, 2020, Mellencamp's official social media accounts confirmed that he was currently recording an album at his Belmont Mall recording studio. On albums like Scarecrow (1985), The Lonesome Jubilee (1987) and Big Daddy (1989), Mellencamp helped pioneer the sound of alternative country or No Depression, music that combines the truth-telling force of hard-core country with the instrumental attack of rock & roll. ![]() ![]() , When debuting "Easy Target" on January 19, Mellencamp delivered insights into Sad Clowns & Hillbillies: "It's crazy the way it startedit was going to be a religious record. Mellencamp's artwork has been the focus of a number of exhibitions. All of that failure and frustration had energized every guy in the band to the infantile level of, 'We're going to show 'em all they were wrong.' They thought I was going to turn into the next Neil Diamond. In 1988, Rolling Stone magazine called this version of Mellencamp's band "one of the most powerful and versatile live bands ever assembled." 1 on Billboard's Blues Album charts. John Mellencamp, also called Johnny Cougar or John Cougar Mellencamp, (born October 7, 1951, Seymour, Indiana, U.S.), American singer-songwriter who became popular in the 1980s by creating basic, often folk-inflected hard rock and presenting himself as a champion of small-town values.
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