09.26.2021 - Watch John's complete set at Farm Aid 2021 in Hartford, CT on the John Mellencamp Official
YouTube Channel.. John kicked off the night with a classic from 1985 "Small Town" The complete setlist: Small Town, Check It Out, Aint Even Done With The Night, Jack & Diane, I Always Lie To Strangers, Rain on the Scarecrow, Lonely Ol Night, Crumblin Down, and Pink Houses
09.17.2021 - John Mellencamp, in addition to being a beloved songwriter-singer, is also a gifted painter, and a serious cinefile. As such, he’s teamed up with TCM – Turner Classic Movies – on several projects, including the sponsorship of his forthcoming tour, the first time he’s had tour sponsorship.
Starting tonight, September 17, 2021 and then again on September 24, he’s sharing his love for great films as guest programmer, curating two nights of three films each.
09.15.2021 - Legendary artist John Mellencamp is teaming up with Turner
Classic Movies to take on the celebrated role of guest programmer, curating two
special nights of films. He has selected Tortilla Flat, Cool Hand Luke and The
Misfits to air on September 17 followed by The Fugitive Kind, On the Waterfront
and East of Eden on September 24.
Mellencamp is also working with Turner Classic Movies on various projects
including the sponsorship of his forthcoming tour, a landmark collaboration and
first for the artist who has never had a tour sponsorship in all his years of
performing live. More details will follow shortly. Read the complete press release after the jump. Read More
09.01.2021 - “This is not a concert. I’m just playing on the street. I’m not promoting anything. I’m not selling anything. I’m just giving back to the people who have been so good to me.”
So claims John Mellencamp on his new live album, The Good Samaritan Tour 2000. The remarks come after he wrapped up a decidedly down-home version of “Small Town” during one of the tour’s street corner performances. Read More
08.27.2021 - Today, John Mellencamp and Republic Records release the live album to
accompany the The Good Samaritan Tour 2000 documentary available now on Turner Classic
Movies (TCM) YouTube channel.
Stream The Good Samaritan Tour 2000 live album
HERE and watch The Good
Samaritan Tour 2000 documentary HERE.
The album features live versions of some of John Mellencamp’s most popular songs
including “Pink Houses,” “Small Town” as well as a cover of “Oklahoma Hills”
written by Woody Guthrie. Read More
07.18.2021 - Mellencamp will soon return to the studio to finish recording his 25th album. Prior to the onset of the Global Pandemic, he has already cut ten tracks and plans to record another 17 for the project.
07.18.2021 - At present, we are looking to tour in 2022, but that all depends on the pandemic and our ability to recover from it. Here is JM's "Small Town" recorded in Chicago, October 25, 2016 on the Plain Spoken Tour.
05.12.2020 - John Mellencamp is a rebel without a cause but not the spitfire refractory type who raises a painting palette with a clenched fist against the art establishment. He’s not a rebel who proclaims a cerebral doctrine, decrees an oppressive ideology or a proponent of some altisonant theory or authoritarian manifesto.
His rebellion is embodied in the physical phenomena, in the palpable materiality of his art. He does not pay any deferential tribute to any arching esthetic dictamina. He propounds in a serenely quiet and countervailing way that art need not subscribe to any one restrictive philosophy but can embrace expansively myriad paths and approaches to self-discovery and the realization of self-expression. Read David L. Shirey's perception of John Mellencamp after the jump. Read More
