Tag Archives: John Mellencamp
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Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp to share Shoreline stage at Outlaw Music Festival
Willie Nelson performs at the 2016 Bridge School Benefit show on Sept. 22 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. Paige K. Parsons. Iconic songwriters and artists Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp will share the stage at Shoreline Amphitheatre on. Aug. 3 when their Outlaw Music Festival Tour hits…
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REVIEW: John Mellencamp takes a broader, but still cynical view on ‘Orpheus Descending’
John Mellencamp, “Orpheus Descending.” You can’t really call Orpheus Descending, the new album by John Mellencamp, significantly cheerier than his last, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. But even if most of the 11 new songs here are attacking something or someone, they’re preoccupied with bigger matters. The now 71-year-old Mellencamp…
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REWIND: The author of this column is very, very old
John Mellencamp, courtesy. Today, the day this column runs, I am old. OK, to be fair, I was old yesterday, too. It can be argued I was born old. But today is my 40th birthday so I’m especially old, in that way only an odometer birthday can drive home. Plus,…
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Review: John Mellencamp searches for rainbows on ‘Strictly a One-Eyed Jack’
The course of John Mellencamp has been fairly well established for the past 20 years or so. It consists of tales of lessons learned (or not) along the hard road of life, set largely to acoustic music with one foot firmly in Americana and the other on stage with…
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ALBUM REVIEW: John Mellencamp opens the vault on ‘Other People’s Stuff’
John Mellencamp, “Other People’s Stuff.” Over the last three decades, John Mellencamp has covered a variety of musical styles, songs and rhythms under the umbrella of heartland rock. On his newest offering, Mellencamp digs deep into the archives of his musical experience. An homage to some of the greatest…
