Mellencamp Unveils Anti-War Song (More Musical Idiots Join the Dixie Chicks & Sheryl Crow)

Billboard Magazine ^

[Recovering_Democrat]

John Mellencamp has made a new anti-war-themed song, "To Washington," available for free download on his official Web site. The cut, inspired by Woody Guthrie and the Carter Family but penned by Mellencamp, questions President George W. Bush's motives at waging war against Iraq: "He wants to fight with many / And he says it's not for oil / He sent out the National Guard / To police the world."

"To Washington" will appear on Mellencamp's next studio album, a collection of covers he is recording in his Bloomington, Ind., homebase with his touring band. The set, tentatively titled "Trouble No More," is due in late May on Columbia. Despite Mellencamp's announcement last summer that he had parted ways with the label, the artist tells Billboard, "Our divorce failed."

Other songs set for inclusion on the new album are "Stones in My Passway" (Robert Johnson), "Death Letter" (Son House), "Johnny Hart" (Woody Guthrie), "Baltimore Oriole" (Hoagy Carmichael), "Teardrops Will Fall" (Dickie Do and the Don'ts), "Diamond Joe" (traditional, recorded by Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Tom Rush), "End of the World" (Skeeter Davis), "Joliet Bound" (Joe McCoy), "Lafayette" (Lucinda Williams), "John the Revelator" (traditional), and "Down at the Bottom" (Willie Dixon).

A spokesperson says Mellencamp, Billboard's 2001 Century Award winner, is not planning to tour in the next few months. But, he will appear April 9 in New York at a 70th birthday tribute to Willie Nelson, with whom he is a partner in the yearly Farm Aid benefit concert.

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

[Redcloak]

Little pink burqas
For you and me

[CIBvet]

What have the Dixie Chicks done to rank them in such a pathetic category?

[duckman]

"Stones in My Passway"

Sounds like he needs a to see an doctor quick.

[chainsaw]

Clint Black also has a new release out, It's called Iraq and Roll and is available as a free MP3 (3.6 meg) download on Clint Blacks web site Forget the dicksy Chx's and this mellon camp fellow. Black is a real american.

[WellsFargo94]

Fill me in on the Chickie Dicks stance will you?

[Porterville]

Well, I like his old stuff, but I'll burn his sh!t along with the Dixie B!tches; becuase I'm just poor ignorant trash too stupid to understand what the rich and fat liberals know outright.

[Dan from Michigan]

LOL. Oh yeah, life goes on....

[swarthyguy]

They're playing rocknroll in Jalalabad,
Down in Kandahar, hoo hey,
Deep in the heart of Herat,
High Up in Kunduz way,
All over the valleys,
Down in the caves n tunnels,
Everybody's gone surfing...

Surfing A.F.G.A

[Paul Atreides]

He's still alive?

[IncPen]

Fill me in on the Chickie Dicks stance will you?

Search and find

[Last Visible Dog]

You dropped a bomb on me -- ????

Why is The Gap Band

[A_perfect_lady]

"Stones in My Passway" (Robert Johnson),

That's from too much calcium. Very painful.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

I'm origianlly from Indiana too, alot of my friends are from Brown County where this guy is looked at as some sort of god. I've always thought he was patheticly trying to use the musical ability of others (like that black bass player chick who has soul, unlike him) to supply his infamous ego and keep putting out albums.

To think that he portrays himself as some sort of country boy representing Indiana makes me genuinely hate him for putting out these DNC talking points. I'd boycott him, but who buys his albums anyways?

As my friend from Brown County pointed out to me, Pink Houses isn't patriotic, its about the terrible pitfalls of capitalism. It just uses the chorus about America to take advantage of the casual support he'd get from middle America. Kind of sums up everything about this white trash wanna be Hollywood type.

[Last Visible Dog]

In the early 1980’s I went to a Heart concert and John Cougar Mellonhead was the opening act (right around the time “Jack and Dianne” was out) - we waited in the parking lot until Mellonhead’s set was over – the parking lot was packed with people!

Irrelevant has-beens will jump on any bandwagon they can find in an attempt to breathe life into a long dead career.

[Last Visible Dog]

Why is The Gap Band

Make that Who is the Gap Band

[Gee Wally]

Who?

[ImpBill]

ETU John? Bummer

[karatemom]

Thank you!! I was wondering myself what they said. Do you notice how they always go abroad and trash talk the U.S.?

[muawiyah]

Mellencamp has been hanging around Bloomington too much lately.