John Mellencamp repasa su carrera en el cuádruple álbum “On Rural Route 7609”, centrándose en su faceta de compositor de canciones. El álbum contiene 54 temas, 17 de ellos inéditos. Entre estos, aparecen unas grabaciones en las que la actriz Joanne Woodward y el escritor Cornel West recitan textos de Mellencamp. “On Rural Route 7609” se pondrá a la el 15 de junio.
Contenido de “On Rural Route 7609”:
Disco 1
1. ‘Longest Days’
2. ‘Grandma’s Theme’
3. ‘Rural Route’
4. ‘Jackie Brown’
5. ‘Rain On The Scarecrow’
6. ‘Jim Crow with Cornell West’
7. ‘Jim Crow’
8. ‘Big Daddy Of Them All’
9. ‘Deep Blue Heart’
10. ‘Forgiveness’
11. ‘Don’t Need This Body’
12. ‘Jenny At 16’
13. ‘Jack And Diane’ (writing demo)
14. ‘Jack And Diane’
Disco 2
1. ‘The Real Life’ with Joanne Woodward
2. ‘Ghost Towns Along The Highway’
3. ‘The Full Catastrophe’
4. ‘Authority Song’ (writing demo)
5. ‘Troubled Land’
6. ‘To Washington’
7. ‘Our Country’ (alternate version)
8. ‘Country Gentlemen’
9. ‘Freedom’s Road’
10. ‘Mr. Bellows’ (remix)
11. ‘Rodeo Clown’
12. ‘Love And Happiness’
13. ‘Pink Houses’
Disco 3
1. ‘If I Die Sudden’ (live)
2. ‘Someday’
3. ‘Between A Laugh And A Tear’
4. ‘Void In My Heart’ (acoustic version recorded at Chess Studios)
5. ‘Death Letter’
6. ‘Sugar Marie’ (acoustic)
7. ‘Theo And Weird Henry’
8. ‘When Jesus Left Birmingham’
9. ‘L.U.V.’ (remix)
10. ‘Thank You’
11. ‘Women Seem’
12. ‘The World Don’t Bother Me None ’
13. ‘Cherry Bomb’ (writing demo)
14. ‘Someday The Rain Will Fall’
15. ‘A Ride Back Home’
Disco 4
1. ‘My Aeroplane’
2. ‘Colored Lights’
3. ‘Just Like You’
4. ‘Young Without Lovers’
5. ‘To M.G. (Wherever She May Be)’ (acoustic)
6. ‘Sweet Evening Breeze’
7. ‘What If I Came Knocking’
8. ‘Country Fair’
9. ‘Peaceful World’ (writing demo)
10. ‘Your Life Is Now’
11. ‘For The Children’
12. ‘Rural Route’ (acoustic)
