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gordonshumway:

John Mellencamp: “Don’t Forget About Me”

Look, this isn’t the same guy who spent the 1980s with feathered hair, a practiced scowl and a made-up name.  At 58, he’s grown in to his Marlboro-enhanced rasp and has finally earned the dirt on his denim jacket.  When he delivers lines like “Give me back my youth/And don’t let me waste it this time”, it sounds like he’s telling Jack and Diane to do something other than kill their afternoons at the Tastee Freez…but not until they go back one more time, just to savor it.

Mellencamp’s first album was called John Cougar and he recorded it while he was using the same name for himself.  Thirty-one years later, he sounds more like John Steinbeck…and a lot less like who he used to be. 

Good stuff. Very good stuff.

We love his last album, Life Death Love and Freedom, too – also produced by T Bone Burnett.