Equipped with John Mellencamp's then recently acquired vintage 1/4" reel-to-reel 1955 Ampex 601 mono tape recorder and a pair of iconic 50's era RCA ribbon microphones ( a 77 DX and 44 used singly) presumably supplied by producer T-Bone Burnett, the duo, accompanied by Mellencamp's wife Elaine, who shot the album's cover photo, hit the road during a break in last summer's Bob Dylan-John Mellencamp-Willie Nelson tour to record thirteen freshly penned songs Mr. Mellencamp had written over thirteen prolific days.

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Discography

A Biography

1978

John Cougar

1979

Nothin' Matters And What If It Did

1980

American Fool

1982

Uh-HUH!

1983

Scarecrow

1985

The Lonesome Jubilee

1987

Big Daddy

1989

Whenever We Wanted

1991

Dance Naked

1994

Mr. Happy Go Lucky

1996

John Mellencamp

1998

Album Credits

Orpheus Descending

John Mellencamp · 2023

Producer
Strictly A One-Eyed Jack

John Mellencamp · 2022

Producer
Wasted Days

Bruce Springsteen & John Mellencamp · 2021

Producer
Other People's Stuff

John Mellencamp · 2018

Producer
Sad Clowns & Hillbillies

John Mellencamp · 2017

Producer
Dark As A Dungeon (From The Documentary Film “From the Ashes”)

John Mellencamp · 2017

Producer
Plain Spoken

John Mellencamp · 2014

Producer
Freedom's Road

John Mellencamp · 2007

Producer
Human Wheels

John Mellencamp · 2005

Mixing Engineer Producer
Cuttin' Heads

John Mellencamp · 2001

Mixing Engineer Producer
John Mellencamp

John Mellencamp · 1998

Producer
Mr. Happy Go Lucky

John Mellencamp · 1996

Mixing Engineer Producer