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ITEM#: 12255798

Personnel: John Mellencamp (vocals, guitar); Joanne Woodward, Cornell West, Laura Mellencamp (vocals); Andy York (guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, drums, percussion, background vocals); Mike Wanchic (guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, background vocals); Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Kenny Childers, Larry Crane , Mick Ronson (guitar, background vocals); Dave Alvin, David Grissom, Michael Clark, T-Bone Burnett (guitar); Miriam Sturm (violin, piano, organ, keyboards); Jimmy Ryser, Lisa Germano (violin, background vocals); Michael Ramos (accordion, piano, organ, keyboards, background vocals); John Cascella (accordion, piano, organ, keyboards); David Wierhake (accordion); Nancy Arnold (oboe); Dennis Riggins, Tim Riggins, Harvey E. Phillips (brass); Moe Z (piano, organ, keyboards, drums, percussion, background vocals); Jay Ferguson, Jeff Pederson, Troye Kinnett (piano, organ, keyboards); Steve Jordan , Kenny Aronoff , Dane Clark (drums, percussion); Mike Dupke, Ricky Lawson (drums); Crystal Taliefero, Pat Peterson (percussion, background vocals); Sonja Rasmussen, Kimberly Roads, Georgia Jones, Laurie Robert-Glug, Jane McLeod, Janas Hoyt, Susan Swaney , Robert Frank , Lonnie Pitchford, Phillip Sweet, Raphael Saadiq, Trisha Yearwood, Joan Baez, Courtney Kaiser, Toby Myers, Carroll Sue Hill, Heather Headley, Karen Fairchild , Jimi Westbrook (background vocals). Liner Note Author: Anthony DeCurtis. Photographers: Jrgen Vollmer; Paul Jasmin; Harry Sandler; Samuel Bayer; Elaine Mellencamp; Skeeter Hagler; Marc Hauser; Norman Seeff; Antonin Kratochvil; Lance Staedler; Stephanie Pfriender; Kurt Marcus; J.J.C. Andrews; Paul Mahern. Only John Mellencamp, whose career began with a series of wrong turns, raw determination, and the audaciousness to demand he be taken seriously could create a box set as strange, representative, and labyrinthine as On the Rural Route 7609. In the era of the "track," Mellencamp has issued a massive, beautifully packaged, and exhaustively annotated four-disc career retrospective that doesn't lean on his hits (many aren't here), but rather on more obscure album cuts, outtakes, rarities (17 selections make their debuts here), and more recent material -- numerous selections come from 2007's Freedom's Road and 2008's Life Love Death and Freedom. In Anthony DeCurtis' excellent liner essay/interview, Mellencamp claims he isn't "trying to prove anything. . . it was a way for them to discover songs of mine that perhaps were overlooked because of the songs that were so popular on the radio." Given his choice of material, he may not feel that his career-long demand has been met yet. The address in the title of On the Rural Route 7609 denotes his recording span: 1976-2009, to date. The box isn't structured chronologically, but as four free standing albums, each with its own flavor and themes. In the hardbound book-like package, Mellencamp's and DeCurtis' comments illustrate each track. Disc one opens with "Longest Days." Like many of its songs, it deals with death; in this case, his grandmother's. She makes her own ghostly appearance, singing on the next track! "Rural Route" is next up, a song signifying another side of "Small Town" America (the song isn't here), where the "air stinks of crystal meth," as it relates a tale of murder and rape. (It's a helluva way to open a box set.) Throughout -- in "Jackie Brown," an alternate "Rain on the Scarecrow," two versions of "Jim Crow" (one read by Cornell West) -- Mellencamp reveals American darkness and violence, followed by Mellencamp's themes of personal accountability and consequence -- "Big Daddy of Them All," an alternate "Deep Blue Heart" with Trisha Yearwood, "Forgiveness," and "Don't Need This Body." It closes with the burden of nostalgia for simpler times: an early tape of "Jenny at 16," the model for "Jack and Diane," is followed by the writing demo for the song and the album version. Disc two begins with Joanne Woodward reading the lyrics to "The Real Life," and ends with

Specs

UPC	602527126258
Runtime	198 min.
Type	Performer
Genre	Rock & Pop
Label	Island Records
Producer	Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds; David Leonard; Don Gehman; John Mellencamp; Malcolm Burn; Mike Wanchic; Paul Mahern; T-Bone Burnett
Number of Discs	4
Track Listing	Disc 1 1. Longest Days 2. Grandma's Theme 3. Rural Route 4. Jackie Brown 5. Rain on the Scarecrow 6. Jim Crow - (previously unreleased) 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 - (previously unreleased) 13. Jack and Diane [Writing Demo] - (previously unreleased) 14. Jack and Diane Disc 2 1. Real Life, The - (previously unreleased) 2. Ghost Towns Along the Highway 3. Full Catastrophe, The 4. Authority Song [Writing Demo] - (previously unreleased) 5. Troubled Land 6. To Washington 7. Our Country [Alternative Version] - (previously unreleased) 8. Country Gentleman 9. Freedom's Road 10. Mr. Bellows [Remixed Version] - (remix) 11. Rodeo Clown 12. Love and Happiness 13. Pink Houses Disc 3 1. If I Die Sudden - (live) 2. Someday 3. Between a Laugh and a Tear 4. Void in My Heart - (previously unreleased) 5. Death Letter 6. Sugar Marie - (previously unreleased) 7. Theo and Weird Henry 8. When Jesus Left Birmingham 9. L.U.V. - (previously unreleased) 10. Thank You 11. Women Seem 12. World Don't Bother Me None, The 13. Cherry Bomb [Writing Demo] - (previously unreleased) 14. Some Day the Rains Will Fall 15. Ride Back Home, A Disc 4 1. My Aeroplane 2. Colored Lights - (previously unreleased) 3. Just Like You 4. Young Without Lovers 5. To M.G. (Wherever She May Be) - (previously unreleased) 6. Sweet Evening Breeze 7. What If I Came Knocking 8. County Fair 9. Peaceful World - (previously unreleased) 10. Your Life Is Now 11. For the Children 12. Rural Route - (previously unreleased)
Format	Compact Disc
Spars Coding	n/a

Artists

Mellencamp, John

Country of Origin

United States

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