John Mellencamp Announces His 24th Album, Other People's Stuff - Available December 7th

Not only has MELLENCAMP released hundreds of original songs over his illustrious career, but he has recorded numerous celebrated covers. For as renowned as his original material remains, MELLENCAMP has breathed new life and spirit into various staples of the classic American musical canon as well. A handpicked selection of those covers comprises the aptly titled, Other People’s Stuff.

Culled from seminal albums, compilations, unearthed sessions and documentaries, this record serves as a proud homage to some of the greatest songs in history. For the album, Mellencamp recorded a brand-new version of “Eyes on the Prize” which was originally performed at The White House. Mellencamp was asked by the Obama administration to perform for the 2010 Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement event. See link to the memorable performance here. Check out “Eyes on The Prize” Here.

About the collection, MELLENCAMP commented “Most, if not all, of the songs on Other People’s Stuff come from The Great American Songbook.  These are songs that have been recorded over the last 40 years of my career, but had never been put together as one piece of work. Now, they have.”

Check out the full tracklisting below.

The new album sets the stage for his 2019 tour of “The John Mellencamp Show,” which will feature the rock icon’s classics plus some new material. Hailed by critics and fans alike as one of music’s most authentic and crowd-pleasing concert performer, he kicks off the tour February 7^th in his home state of Indiana at South Bend’s Morris Performing Arts Center. Yesterday, Mellencamp announced additional dates for the tour which will extend the already lengthy 2019 run with 14 additional shows, making stops across the country. Tickets for most dates will go on sale on Friday, November 9^th at 10am local time (see full onsale times below). Produced by AEG Presents, “The John Mellencamp Show” will start promptly at 8pm and will not have an opening act.  Every ticket purchased online will receive a physical copy of Other People’s Stuff.

For more information and all ticketing information please visit Mellencamp.com.

MELLENCAMP’s live shows have garnered huge critical acclaim with the Hollywood Reporter calling it a “triumphant, career-spanning show” and a “superb performance…still full of fiery defiance” by the Boston Globe.  His extensive touring and live shows have solidified the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer’s place at the forefront of American music for the past 40 years.

Other People’s Stuff TRACKLISTING:

1. “To The River” (originally from 1993’s Human Wheels)
2. “Gambling Bar Room Blues” (originally from 1997’s The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers – A Tribute)
3. “Teardrops Will Fall” (originally from 2003’s Trouble No More)
4. “In My Time of Dying” (originally from 1997’s Rough Harvest)
5. “Mobile Blue” (originally from 2017’s Sad Clowns & Hillbillies)
6. “Eyes on the Prize” (originally performed at The White House in 2010)
7. “Dark As A Dungeon (originally from the 2017 National Geographic Channel documentary From the Ashes)
8. “Stones in My Passway” (originally from 2003’s Trouble No More)
9. “Wreck of the Old 97” (originally from 2004’s The Rose and The Briar)
10. “I Don’t Know Why I Love You” (originally from 2003’s An Interpretation of Stevie Wonder’s Songs)

“THE JOHN MELLENCAM SHOW” 2019 TOUR DATES

Date	City	Venue
February 7, 2019	South Bend, IN	Morris Performing Arts Center
February 8, 2019	Milwaukee, WI	Riverside Theatre
February 10, 2019	Cincinnati, OH	Aronoff Center for the Arts
February 12, 2019	Fort Wayne, IN	Embassy Theatre
February 14, 2019	Rockford, IL	Coronado Performing Arts Center
February 15, 2019	Peoria, IL	Peoria Civic Center
February 17, 2019	Grand Rapids, MI	DeVos Performance Hall
February 19, 2019	Youngstown, OH	Stambaugh Auditorium
February 20, 2019	Baltimore, MD	Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric
February 22, 2019	Providence, RI	Providence Performing Arts Center
February 23, 2019	New Brunswick, NJ	State Theatre New Jersey
February 25, 2019	New York, NY	Beacon Theatre
February 26, 2019	New York, NY	Beacon Theatre
February 27 2019	New York, NY	Beacon Theatre
March 9, 2019	Louisville, KY	Louisville Palace Theatre
March 10, 2019	Evansville, IN	Aiken Theatre
March 12, 2019	St. Louis, MO	Stifel Theatre
March 14, 2019	Kansas City, MO	Arvest Bank Theatre At The Midland
March 16, 2019	Tulsa, OK	Brady Theatre
March 17, 2019	Memphis, MO	Orpheum Theatre
March 19, 2019	Nashville, TN	Ryman Auditorium
March 20, 2019	Nashville, TN	Ryman Auditorium
March 22, 2019	Charlotte, NC	Ovens Auditorium
March 24, 2019	Orlando, FL	Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
March 27, 2019	Ft. Meyers, FL	Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall
March 29, 2019	Clearwater, FL	Ruth Eckerd Hall
March 30, 2019	Clearwater, FL	Ruth Eckerd Hall
April 9, 2019	Kalamazoo, MI	Miller Auditorium*
April 11th, 2019	Saginaw, MI	The Dow Event Center Theater*
April 13, 2019	Green Bay, WI	Weidner Center^
April 15, 2019	Omaha, NE	Orpheum Theatre*
April 16, 2019	Wichita, KS	Century II Convention Center*
April 18, 2019	Rapid City, SD	Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Theatre*
April 20, 2019	Spokane, WA	First Interstate Center for the Arts*
April 22, 2019	Eugene, OR	Hult Center for the Performing Arts*
April 23, 2019	Portland, OR	Portland Center for the Performing Arts*
April 25, 2019	Oakland, CA	Paramount Theatre*
April 26, 2019	Santa Barbara, CA	Arlington Theatre*
April 28, 2019	Tucson, AZ	Tucson Music Hall*
April 20, 2019	Albuquerque, NM	Kiva Auditorium*

*On sale Friday, November 9^th at 10am local time
^On sale Friday, November 9^th at 11am local time

Farm Aid 2011 Set For August 13th

KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Farm Aid has announced that it will bring its annual benefit concert to Kansas City, marking the first time that the organization will stage the event in Kansas. Farm Aid 2011 will be the first concert event at the new LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, which opens June 9.

“I’m looking forward to bringing my friends together in Kansas for the first time to honor family farmers” said Farm Aid president Willie Nelson. “Farm Aid celebrates the independent family farmers and ranchers who make this country strong, and we know we can only fix the challenges our country faces with the know-how of family farmers.”

Farm Aid 2011 will feature Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews on Saturday, Aug. 13. Other top artists will soon be announced. The concert benefits Farm Aid’s mission to keep family farmers on the land to guarantee an agricultural system that ensures farmers a fair living, strengthens our communities, protects our natural resources and delivers good food for all.

The concert event will celebrate music, family farmers and good food, and will again feature HOMEGROWN concessions—family-farm identified, local and organic foods. Farm Aid’s HOMEGROWN Village will showcase hands-on activities that give concertgoers a chance to meet farmers, get their hands dirty, and learn how family farmers enrich our soil, protect our water and connect us to our roots.

“Willie, John, Neil and Dave stand up to say that our country needs family farmers,” said Carolyn Mugar, executive director of Farm Aid. “Farm Aid 2011 is an opportunity for everyone to stand up with them. There is a strong culture of agriculture here in Kansas—rural and urban—and a growing movement to bring good food to everyone. We’re proud to bring Farm Aid 2011 to the Sunflower State and shine a spotlight on the family farmers and ranchers whose hard work and innovations are essential for all of us.”

“Farm Aid is a great inaugural concert announcement, as it builds upon a cause platform we started with LIVESTRONG Sporting Park,” said Robb Heineman, CEO of Sporting Club. “This unique opportunity for the region is just the first of many great events we will host, and we are excited for Farm Aid to kick it off.”

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and Kansas City Mayor Joe Reardon welcomed Farm Aid to Kansas and highlighted the value of family farmers and good food to the state.

Since 1985, Farm Aid has traveled the country, staging annual concerts and supporting organizations that work locally, regionally and nationally to strengthen family farms. Despite the recent increase in commodity prices, family farmers still face an uphill struggle. In recent years, Farm Aid has received record numbers of phone calls to its hotline from farmers in need due to volatile farm prices, tight credit markets, escalating costs and disasters, such as the recent floods, droughts and tornadoes across the Midwest and South. Farm Aid’s annual benefit concert is its primary event to raise funds in support of the organization’s work.

Tickets for Farm Aid 2011 will go on sale Friday, May 20, at 10 a.m. CDT and are available by phone at 1-800-745-3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets for Farm Aid 2011 are $29 for general admission; $39, $69 and $99 for reserved seats; and $149 for a limited number of premium seats. Ticket prices include a $4 facility fee. Parking is free. Additional ticket nformation can be found at www.livestrongsportingpark.com and www.farmaid.org.

Farm Aid will offer special advance sale tickets to Farm Aid members beginning May 12. To become a member of Farm Aid, visit www.farmaid.org.

Farm Aid welcomes the participation of the local business community and offers corporate sponsorship opportunities. For more information, contact Glenda Yoder at glenda@farmaid.org.

Farm Aid’s mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews host an annual concert to raise funds to support Farm Aid’s work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family farm food. Since 1985, Farm Aid, with the support of the artists who contribute their performances each year, has raised more than $39 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the dominant system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.

John Mellecamp - June 16, 1999

During the summer of 1999, I attended a lot of concerts. I don’t believe that there’s been a summer where I’ve attended more. I was in my mid-twenties, had a lot of disposable income (and credit) and concerts were one of my favorite events. One of the shows I saw that summer was John Mellencamp at the PNC Bank Arts Center, in Holmdel, New Jersey.

This would be the first and only time I would see Mellencamp in concert and I’ll be honest; I don’t recall much about this performance. I know that it wasn’t that long (he played for 90 minutes), I know that he played a few hits that I really wanted to hear (Pink Houses, Jack and Diane) and I know that it was his first return to Holmdel since he had a heart attack on stage.

We sat in section 403, which was the newly added, uncovered seats section. They were just installed earlier that year. Prior to those seats being there, the lawn was bigger, but the Arts Center realized they would get more revenue from adding seats there.

I paid $32.50 per ticket (plus fees). It was around this time that I started to really notice ticket prices creeping up and up. In two years time, the normal ticket price would be almost double what I paid for this show.

Son Volt opened the show and while I’m a huge fan of theirs now, the night of the concert I was only a casual fan. I owned a copy of Trace and that was all I knew about Son Volt. I remember wanting to hear Drown and not much caring about the other stuff they were playing. I did get to hear Drown and they did do an amazing performance of it.

With a buzz in the air and the roar of the crowd, Mellencamp took the stage. Again, I don’t recall every nuance as I do for most concerts, therefore it’s hard for me to remember exactly what took place or how I felt seeing John take the stage. There are some things I do easily recall. John wasn’t very energetic on stage (understandable for a guy who had a heart attack the last time he was at that venue). His song selection was nothing but the big hits, no deep cuts included. He performed for 90 minutes and called it a night.

I grew a deeper appreciation for Rain on the Scarecrow that night, as I listened to the lyrics he sang and the message behind the music. I was touched as John cried out about family farms being foreclosed on because the banks didn’t care about the bad year the farmer took, or the great credit they had before this troubled time hit. It definitely made me stop and think and appreciate the American farmer, all they do, and all they put up with.

While the performance itself was well done and enjoyable, especially the sing-along for Jack and Diane and Pink Houses, it was a disappointment that he would play such a short set. I was used to seeing bands and performers that went on forever and this was one of those rare concerts that was too short and somewhat disappointing.

Mellencamp has a catalog of great rock and roll hits and he played most of them that late spring night. However, his decision to perform for a minimal amount of time left me with a bad feeling and I determined that I probably would never see him live again.

I appreciate Mellencamp as a musical artist, enjoy his records, and own quite a bit of his stuff, but after that night, my feelings for him as a live performer were a lot less. Ever since then, I’ve paid a lot less attention to Mellencamp and I’ve actually become more of a Son Volt fan. While I will always like his music, especially the album Scarecrow, I don’t know that I will ever see Mellencamp in concert again.