UMe will release the entire studio catalog of John Cougar Mellencamp in one massive 19-CD box set on December 10.
John Mellencamp 1978- 2012, for the first time, combines in one package, albums Mellencamp recorded as John Cougar, John Cougar Mellencamp and John Mellencamp for Polygram, Universal, Sony and Concord-affiliated labels. The set contains a total of 223 tracks and includes such mythic album titles as American Fool, Lonesome Jubilee, Scarecrow, Cuttin’ Heads and the more recent Life, Death, Love and Freedom and No Better Than This. Thirteen of the albums in the collection were RIAA®-certified as Gold, Platinum or Multiplatinum winners while ten of the albums achieved Top Ten status on Billboard’s Top 100 Album Chart. Of special note is the fact that the collection includes the long out-of-print original soundtrack album to Falling From Grace, the Mellencamp-directed film that was a collaboration with noted author Larry McMurty. That disc includes tracks by Mellencamp, Dwight Yoakam, Nanci Griffith, Joe Ely, James McMurtry and John Prine.
John Mellencamp 1978- 2012 includes every one of Mellencamp’s thirty Billboard Top 100 singles, from I Need A Lover and Jack & Diane to Pink Houses and Rain On The Scarecrow, as well as such classics as Paper in Fire, Hurts So Good, Crumblin’ Down, Jackie Brown, Small Town, Wild Night, R.O.C.K In The U.S.A., Our Country and, quite literally, all the rest. There are bonus tracks concluding twelve of the albums, sourced from the 2005 re-mastered versions of Mellencamp’s Mercury releases.
Track List:
The following albums are included in the set. Each has their original track list. Only the bonus tracks are listed below.
John Cougar (1979)
Take Home Pay
Nothin’ Matters and What If It Did (1980)
Latest Game
American Fool (1982)
American Fool
Uh-Huh (1983)
Pink Houses (acoustic version)
Scarecrow (1985)
Small Town (acoustic version)
The Lonesome Jubilee (1987)
Blues From the Front Porch
Big Daddy (1989)
Jackie Brown (acoustic version)
Whenever We Wanted (1991)
Love and Happiness (London club mix)
Falling From Grace: Original Soundtrack Album (1992)
Human Wheels (1993)
When Jesus Left Birmingham
Dance Naked (1994)
Wild Night (acoustic version)
Mr. Happy Go Lucky (1996)
What If I Came Knocking?
John Mellencamp (1998)
Rough Harvest (1999)
Seventh Son
Cuttin’ Heads (2001)
Trouble No More (2003)
Freedom’s Road (2007)
Live, Death, Love and Freedom (2008)
No Better Than This (2010)
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