The Lonesome Jubilee:(1987)
Say what you will about John Mellencamp, and some of it is probably true, but I stand by that he is an underrated songwriter. I'm not sure it's ever been cool to like Mellencamp, but records have been sold, and people know the lyrics. Now, as much as I dig the hits on these earlier albums, I've got to say, the stuff he's been putting out in recent years is some of his all time best. Go check out No Better Than This, and Plain Spoken. Anyway, these are the two pieces of Mellencamp vinyl I own. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but these represent the man at the height of his popularity, so I'm sure you know the songs.
A concert promoter that used to book me once said, that he figured the work of John Mellencamp would be in much higher estimation in about twenty or thirty years when people look back, and realize how honestly and unpretentiously he wrote about middle America.
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