John Cougar Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee Album

Tracklist

1	La Vida Verdadera "The Real Life"	3:56
2	Manos Vacias "Empty Hands"	3:44
3	Bomba De Cereza "Cherry Bomb"	4:49
4	Papel En Fuego "Paper In Fire"	3:53
5	Nosotros Somos La Gente "We Are The People"	4:16
6	Hot Dogs Y Hamburguesas "Hotdogs And Hamburgers"	4:04
7	Tiempos Difíciles Para Un Hombre Honesto "Hard Times For An Honest Man"	3:28
8	Sin Un Céntimo En El Paraiso "Down And Out In Paradise"	3:39
9	Rooty Toot Toot	3:29
10	Chécalo "Check It Out"	4:20

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
832 465-1 Q-1, 422 832 465-1 Q-1	John Cougar Mellencamp	The Lonesome Jubilee ‎(LP, Album, Spe)	Mercury, Mercury	832 465-1 Q-1, 422 832 465-1 Q-1	US	1987
832 465-2 Q-1	John Cougar Mellencamp	The Lonesome Jubilee ‎(CD, Album, RP, UML)	Mercury	832 465-2 Q-1	US	Unknown
MOVLP807	John Cougar Mellencamp	The Lonesome Jubilee ‎(LP, Album, RE, 180)	Music On Vinyl, Mercury	MOVLP807	Europe	2013
832 465-4	John Cougar Mellencamp	The Lonesome Jubilee ‎(Cass, Album)	Mercury	832 465-4	Argentina	1987
MMTCD 1699	John Cougar Mellencamp	The Lonesome Jubilee ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Mercury	MMTCD 1699	South Africa	1993

Credits

• Accordion, Keyboards, Saxophone, Melodica, Tin Whistle [Penny Whistle], Claves – John Cascella
• Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Resonator Guitar [Dobro], Banjo, Dulcimer, Backing Vocals – Mike Wanchic
• Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Steel Guitar [Pedal], Steel Guitar [Lap], Mandolin, Harmonica, Autoharp, Banjo, Backing Vocals – Larry Crane
• Art Direction – George Corsillo
• Backing Vocals – Crystal Taliefero
• Bass, Banjo, Backing Vocals – Toby Myers
• Cowbell, Tambourine, Backing Vocals – Pat Peterson
• Drums, Tambourine, Vibraphone, Dulcimer [Hammer], Congas, Backing Vocals – Kenny Aronoff
• Engineer [Assistant] – Rick Fettig
• Engineer [Maintenance] – Ross Alexander
• Engineer [Mastering] – Stephen Marcussen
• Fiddle – Lisa Germano
• Mixed By, Engineer – David Leonhard, Don Gehman
• Photography By – Skeeter Hagler
• Producer – Don Gehman, John Cougar Mellencamp
• Written-By – George Green (tracks: B2), John Mellencamp

Notes

℗&© 1987 John Mellencamp

Barcodes

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Etched): R-19172-A SP-2- 23-II-88-R
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Etched): R-19172-B SP-2- 23-II-88-R

Companies

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – John Mellencamp
• Copyright (c) – John Mellencamp
• Manufactured By – PolyGram Discos, S.A. De C.V. – LPR-19172
• Distributed By – PolyGram Discos, S.A. De C.V.

Video

Album

The album was released by Mercury Records on August 24, 1987 see 1987 in music. Four singles were released from the album, the first two in 1987 and the last two in 1988. The album was one of Mellencamp's most successful worldwide, charting in ten countries. The album was most successful in Canada where it topped RPM magazine's Top Albums chart and became the artist's. The Lonesome Jubilee - John Mellencamp. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей. John Mellencamp's fascination with the American heartland came into full flower on Scarecrow, but with its follow-up, The Lonesome Jubilee, he began exploring American folk musics, adding fiddle, accordions, and acoustic guitars to his band, which allowed him to explore folk and country. The expansion of his band coincided with his continuing growth as a songwriter. Song for song, The Lonesome Jubilee is Mellencamp's strongest album, the record where he captured his romantic, if decidedly melancholy, vision of working-class America. Songs in album John Cougar Mellencamp - Lonesome Jubilee 1986. John Cougar Mellencamp - Down And Out In Paradise. John Cougar Mellencamp - Paper In Fire. John Cougar Mellencamp - The Real Life. John Cougar Mellencamp - Check It Out. John Cougar Mellencamp - We Are The People. John Cougar Mellencamp - Cherry Bomb. John Cougar Mellencamp - Empty Hands. John Cougar Mellencamp - Hard Times For An Honest Man. John Mellencamp. John Mellencamp's 'The Lonesome Jubilee' was released on August 24, 1987. Lyrically, The Lonesome Jubilee took on unemployment, poverty, homelessness, xenophobia, racism and the heavy burden of disillusionment Mellencamp saw weighing down his generation. The pain and contemplation show right there in the song titles: We Are the People, Empty Hands, The Real Life, Down and Out in Paradise, Hard Times for an Honest Man. The Lonesome Jubilee CD, Album, Club. Mercury, Polygram Records. John Cougar Mellencamp. The Lonesome Jubilee CD, Album, UML. Mercury, Mercury. Listen free to John Mellencamp The Lonesome Jubilee Paper In Fire, Down And Out In Paradise and more. 10 tracks 39:38. 2005 John Mellencamp, under exclusive license to the Island Def Jam Music Group. Music Videos. Paper In Fire. Glancing back at John Mellencamp's fantastic 1987 album, The Lonesome Jubilee, may prompt the disturbing thought that not much really changed as the twentieth century rolled into the twenty-first. A few of the album's song titles reflect themes that still resonate in an increasingly volatile present day, such as Down and Out in Paradise, Empty Hands and Hard Times for an Honest Man. John Cougar Mellencamps earlier work before Lonesome Jubilee wasnt afraid to push the buttons of the Bible belt Jack and Diane, Hurt so Good, but the artist turns to a Bible verse for the inspiration of this 1987 album, which is placed inside the cover jacket of the record