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Title: Mellencamp Visits The Crossroads!
Review: This is a very interesting project for Mellencamp that may require multiple listening for the unsuspecting buyer to really appreciate. Gone from the mix are the mainstream Mellencamp songs like "Little Pink Houses", "Jack and Diane", "I Saw Her First", "Life Is Hard" or other familiar Mellencamp sounds heard on your favorite rock station. Those songs have been replaced with the songs of Robert Johnson, Son House, Woody Guthrie, Willie Dixon and Memphis Minnie. Approximately 14 different musicians collaborate on the various tunes bringing with them everything from National guitars to washboard and Kazoo to put an authentic traditional feel to the songs. This is a traditional folk/blues oriented CD plain and simple. The CD contains 12 covers with two of the songs, "Diamond Joe" and "To Washington" containing traditional arrangement but with new lyrics. This is not the best John Mellencamp you will ever hear but, for what it is, it is well done.
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