Mellencamp said he was inspired by his daughter Teddi Jo to write "Rooty Toot Toot": "That song was a nursery rhyme that I wrote for her. Suddenly, it's 17 turns 35 – and how can someone 21 understand that?" I mean, I look back on my life now – and you look back on your life – and you realize that we hardly ever really get to do what we wanted to do. Now I'm in my 40s, and I want to do something for myself.' And I asked, 'Well, what do you have in mind?' He said, 'I don't know.' You can't be 21, though, and relate to that. I married this girl when she was 14 – I didn't love her. She was 14 and he was 17 when they got married – and he said, 'Man, I have done exactly what I'm supposed to my whole life. He said those exact words to me one time at the Red Lobster here in Bloomington. Jackson Jackson is based on my Uncle Jay. They're doing what they're supposed to do. Because some of these young guys are thinking, 'Well, I'm doing what I want to do' – but that's not true. Of "The Real Life," Mellencamp told Creem magazine in 1987: "When I sing about Jackson Jackson (in 'The Real Life') – unless you know what it's like to spend your whole life or the majority of your young adulthood doing what you're supposed to do, then you can't relate to it. The risk of making music counter to the mainstream of rock music paid off with the album's success. The sound on the album was a departure from Mellencamp's previous albums and included many traditional folk and country instruments in order to make his audience aware of the "once-familiar social landscape" of folk music. The sessions were produced by Mellencamp with Don Gehman and were engineered by Gehman and David Leonard. The sessions for The Lonesome Jubilee took place at Mellencamp's Belmont Mall Studio in Belmont, Indiana from September 1986 to June 1987, a period of nine months. While the album was being recorded, Riva Records had ceased to function, so Mellencamp moved to Mercury Records (which, like Riva, was distributed by PolyGram), which would continue to release material by Mellencamp until 1998. On Octo– during the period in which The Lonesome Jubilee was being recorded – Mellencamp's uncle Joe died of cancer at the age of 57, which greatly influenced the album. But we had a very clear idea of what we wanted it to sound like, even before it was written, right through to the day it was mastered." Background Now, in the past, it was always 'Let's make it up as we go along' – and we did make some of The Lonesome Jubilee up as we went along. So I just put those songs on a shelf, and cut it back down to a single record. At one point, The Lonesome Jubilee was supposed to be a double album, but at least 10 of the songs I'd written just didn't stick together with the idea and the sound we had in mind. We had a very distinct vision of what should be happening here. "For the first time ever, we talked about the record before we started. "We were on the road for a long time after Scarecrow, so we were together a lot as a band," Mellencamp said in a 1987 Creem Magazine feature. The album was most successful in Canada where it topped RPM magazine's Top Albums chart and became the artist's highest certified album by Music Canada (formerly the Canadian Recording Industry Association) becoming 6× platinum. The album was one of Mellencamp's most successful worldwide, charting in ten countries. Four singles were released from the album, the first two in 1987 and the last two in 1988. The album was released by Mercury Records on Aug(see 1987 in music). All rights reserved.The Lonesome Jubilee is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, credited as John Cougar Mellencamp. A complete list of tour dates can be found at .Ĭopyright © 2023, ABC Audio. The tour wraps with a pair of shows in South Bend, Indiana, on June 23 and 24. The tour has him playing multiple nights in several cities, including Nashville, Chicago and Minneapolis, including four nights at New York’s Beacon Theater. The Live and In Person tour is set to kick off Sunday with a two-night stand in Bloomington, Indiana. Her fiddle playing can be heard on such songs as “Paper and Fire,” “Cherry Bomb” and “Check it Out.” Germano toured and recorded with Mellencamp for seven years, appearing on such albums as 1987’s The Lonesome Jubilee, 1989’s Big Daddy and 1991’s Falling from Grace. John Mellencamp is set to kick off his Live and In Person tour this weekend, and one member of his band will certainly look familiar to longtime fans. The “Small Town” singer announced on Instagram that singer/multiple-instrumentalist Lisa Germano is joining him on tour for the first time in 29 years. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for SeriousFun Children’s Network
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