In October 1998, just a few days after this concert, Mellencamp released a studio album simply titled "John Mellencamp." Unfortunately for him, it marked the start of point in his career with lower sales. His previous ten albums sold at least a million copies in the U.S., and he's sold over 30 million in his career. But this album would only go gold (sales of 500,000), and he hasn't bested that ever since.
However, only two of the songs performed here are from that album: "Eden Is Burning" and "I'm Not Running Anymore."
Once again, we somehow got lucky, because this appears to be a soundboard bootleg of the full performance instead of just the 45 minutes or so of the actual TV episode. I don't know how, but that's happened quite a few times for this TV show. Mellencamp talked quite a lot between songs, pretty much explaining his entire music career and personal development through his life.
The only song officially released from this concert is "Jack and Diane," which appeared on a various artists compilation of Storytellers performances.
This album is an hour and 23 minutes long.
01 talk (John Mellencamp)
02 Jack and Diane (John Mellencamp)
03 talk (John Mellencamp)
04 Eden Is Burning (John Mellencamp)
05 talk (John Mellencamp)
06 Crumblin' Down (John Mellencamp)
07 talk (John Mellencamp)
08 Small Town (John Mellencamp)
09 talk (John Mellencamp)
10 I'm Not Running Anymore (John Mellencamp)
11 talk (John Mellencamp)
12 Pop Singer (John Mellencamp)
13 talk (John Mellencamp)
14 Minutes to Memories (John Mellencamp)
15 talk (John Mellencamp)
16 Jackie Brown (John Mellencamp)
17 talk (John Mellencamp)
I couldn't find a really good cover photo from this exact concert. So instead I used one from an appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in November 1998.
Thank you, G.
ReplyDeleteShame I missed this one.
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