 Label: Universal
Sound/Style: Midwestern rock with country, folk and 1960s influences
Classic rock artist John Mellencamp has found a home in the country music market as well as on network television, where his latest hit song "Our Country" can be heard in an ad for Chevy Trucks. In the last decade, the outspoken rocker's name has been associated more with blatant anti-war sentiments than with his music, which has grown out of vogue with current rock trends. Without changing his basic style in the slightest, the rough-hewn singer is ironically back in the mainstream. So it is with the ever-changing but still-familiar face of American life, a topic the Midwesterner has tackled for decades. Mellencamp's odes to the U.S.A. have run the gamut from bumper-sticker patriotism to all-out attacks on the government, most recently in 2003 with the track "To Washington." On his album Freedom's Road, he again defends and laments his native land, but also holds out hope for fully realized American ideals of equality and justice.
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