Entertainment Weekly LDL&F Album Review
July 18, 2008
John Mellencamp
Life Death Love and Freedom
ROCK (HEAR MUSIC)
The onetime Johnny Cougar firmly embraces geezerdom with Life Death Love and Freedom. "Just put me in a pinebox/ Six feet underground" sings Mellencamp on "If I Die Sudden," one of this album's slow-burning rockers. And for much of the T Bone Burnett-produced collection, his grizzled vocals seem as if they belong to someone who really is about to shuffle off this mortal coil - which perfect suits such melancholy tracks as the terrific riffing blues of "John Cockers" and the Tom Petty-ish "Troubled Land." Though he may be contemplating mortality, Mellencamp, with his weathered snarl, still sounds remarkably alive. B - Clark Collis-DOWNLOAD THIS: "John Cockers"
John Mellencamp
Life Death Love and Freedom
ROCK (HEAR MUSIC)
The onetime Johnny Cougar firmly embraces geezerdom with Life Death Love and Freedom. "Just put me in a pinebox/ Six feet underground" sings Mellencamp on "If I Die Sudden," one of this album's slow-burning rockers. And for much of the T Bone Burnett-produced collection, his grizzled vocals seem as if they belong to someone who really is about to shuffle off this mortal coil - which perfect suits such melancholy tracks as the terrific riffing blues of "John Cockers" and the Tom Petty-ish "Troubled Land." Though he may be contemplating mortality, Mellencamp, with his weathered snarl, still sounds remarkably alive. B - Clark Collis-DOWNLOAD THIS: "John Cockers"