Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Small Town" is a 1985 song written by John Mellencamp and released on his eighth album Scarecrow. The song reached #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart [ 2 ] and #13 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Pages in category "Songs written by John Mellencamp" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. ... Small Paradise; Small Town; T. This Time (John ...
Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall is a live album by singer-songwriter John Mellencamp released on July 8, 2014 on Mercury Records. [2] [3] The album captures Mellencamp's live performance at Town Hall in New York City [4] on July 31, 2003, in which he performed every track from his 2003 Trouble No More covers album as well as several other songs, including his own "Small Town ...
The album was recorded at Mellencamp's own Belmont Mall Studio in Belmont, Indiana. The overall theme of the album is the fading of the American Dream in the face of corporate greed. Rolling Stone wrote that songs such as "Face of the Nation", "Minutes to Memories" and "Small Town" have a "bittersweet, reflective tone".
Mellencamp was born in the small town of Seymour, Indiana on October 7, 1951. [6] He is of German and Dutch ancestry. He was born with spina bifida, for which he had corrective surgery as an infant. Mellencamp formed his first band, Crepe Soul, when he was 14. [7] Mellencamp attended Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana, starting in 1972.
A re-working of "To Washington" featuring new lyrics critical of President George W. Bush and the Iraq War, generated much controversy upon the album's release. In addition to the album, a documentary titled Trouble No More: The Making of a John Mellencamp Album was produced and directed by Ron Osgood, along with students from his documentary ...
Mellencamp's first album to chart on the Billboard 200 was the self-titled John Cougar album in 1979; the album was certified gold by the RIAA. Mellencamp's major commercial breakthrough came in 1982 with American Fool , which reached number one on the Billboard 200 and yielded two singles, " Hurts So Good " and " Jack & Diane ", which reached ...
The lyrics describe a young man who decides to leave home because "the love that you need will never be found" there; the story in the song's music video is that he makes this decision after being gaybashed. "Smalltown Boy" is regarded as a gay anthem and is associated with the rise of British gay culture in the 1980s.