Photo Credit: Myrna Suarez May 16, 2023—John Mellencamp is gearing up to release his much-anticipated album Orpheus Descending. Today, he shares another taste from the LP with new song “The Eyes Of Portland”—listen/share HERE and watch/share the official lyric video HERE. Orpheus Descending will now be released June 16 via Republic Records. Pre-order the album HERE. “The Eyes Of Portland” follows “Hey God.” Listen/share HERE, …
John Mellencamp has today released a politically charged video to accompany his Delta Blues slide guitar version of “Eyes on the Prize,” a song closely associated with the African American civil rights movement of the 20th Century. Mellencamp’s raspy song delivery and the unsettling black and white images displayed in the video fuse rhetorically, delivering …
You are paying rent for your own body, to experience indifference… – DMS Correct me if I am wrong but back in the Reagan era, when people shouted at homeless people to get a job, what that person was truly saying was that they should get an entry level position and pay rent. But many …
“I put out a song about the way things are called ‘Troubled Land’ to give folks the news like Woody Guthrie used to do with his music,” John Mellencamp said in a statement on a political blog. Woody Guthrie? Really? Ironically, that’s the sense I felt about this song when I first heard it. “Troubled …