Review: John Mellencamp - Life Death Love and Freedom
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Written by General Jabbo John Mellencamp delves into American folk, blues and country on his latest release, the moody Life Death Love and Freedom. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album's stark songs of life, death and hard living bare a similarity to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand, also produced by Burnett, but while that album featured all covers (one a Page/Plant song), all 14 tracks on Life... were written by Mellencamp. From the opening notes of 'Longest Days,' you know this isn't pop fare here. Mellencamp laments life's struggles when he sings, 'Sometimes you get sick and you don't...
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