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what I want to do' – but that's not true. They're doing what they're supposed to do. Jackson Jackson is based on my Uncle Jay. He said those exact words to me one time at the Red Lobster here in Bloomington. He and his wife got a divorce. 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. I married this girl when she was 14 – I didn't love her. We had kids. We raised the kids. I stayed there. I worked every day pouring concrete. 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 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. Suddenly, it's 17 turns 35 – and how can someone 21 understand that?"
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Michelle' – because Michelle's middle name is Suzanne – 'so I want you to write me a special song.' So I wrote 'Rooty Toot Toot' as a nursery rhyme. It didn't even have music. I showed it to Larry (Crane) and he said, 'That's a good little, uplifting story' – so we arranged it into a song and put it on the record."
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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. So I just put those songs on a shelf, and cut it back down to a single record. Now, in the past, it was always 'Let's make it up as we go along' – and we
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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. Because some of these young guys are thinking, 'Well, I'm doing
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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. Teddi Jo said, 'Dad, how come you never use my name in one of your songs?' My youngest daughter's name is Justice, so she said 'You used Justice, and you used
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broadcast for the week ending January 30th, 1988, Mellencamp paid $ 300 to rent the tavern for the photo shoot. The older working man seated next to Mellencamp at the bar is Woodrow "Woody" Baker (1914–2009), a welder recommended for the shoot by the tavern's bartender.
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instruments in order to make his audience aware of the "once-familiar social landscape" of folk music. The risk of making music counter to the mainstream of rock music paid off with the album's success.
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The cover art for the album was photographed by Skeeter Hagler and featured Mellencamp sitting next to an older blue-collar working man. The photo shoot took place at the Midway Tavern in
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feature. "For the first time ever, we talked about the record before we started. We had a very distinct vision of what should be happening here. At one point,
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up as we went along. 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."
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Mellencamp.com (2019, December 2). Woody Baker, the Man on the Cover of "Lonesome Jubilee," Dies. Retrieved January 28, 2024, from
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The album was one of Mellencamp's most successful worldwide, charting in ten countries. The album was most successful in
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was being recorded – Mellencamp's uncle Joe died of cancer at the age of 57, which greatly influenced the album.
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The sound on the album was a departure from Mellencamp's previous albums and included many traditional
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Christensen, Thor (1998). "John Mellencamp". In Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds.).
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John Cascella – accordion, keyboards, saxophone, melodica, penny whistle, claves
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magazine's Top Albums chart and became the artist's highest certified album by
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were released from the album, the first two in 1987 and the last two in 1988.
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from September 1986 to June 1987, a period of nine months. The sessions were
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Mike Wanchic – guitars, dobro, banjo, dulcimer, backing vocals
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is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter
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Index


Studio album
John Cougar Mellencamp
Genre
Rock
heartland rock
garage rock
Label
Mercury
Producer
John Mellencamp
Don Gehman
John Cougar Mellencamp
Scarecrow
Big Daddy
Singles
Paper in Fire
Cherry Bomb
Check It Out
AllMusic
Robert Christgau
Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
John Cougar Mellencamp
Mercury Records
1987 in music
singles
Canada
RPM
Music Canada

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