THE LONESOME JUBILEE
The Lonesome Jubilee is the ninth album by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, credited as John Cougar Mellencamp. The album was released by Mercury Records on August 24, 1987. 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 highest certified album by Music Canada (formerly the Canadian Recording Industry Association) becoming 6x platinum. (More from Wikipedia)
John Mellencamp was infuriated to find out that his first album, Chestnut Street Incident had been released under the name Johnny Cougar, and eventually, he set about to reinvent himself, well, back to being himself: After another album under that name, and two under the name John Cougar, the next step was to release his two best albums, Uh Huh and Scarecrow under the name John Cougar Mellencamp. One of his biggest selling albums (it topped the album charts in Canada), The Lonesome Jubilee introduced folk and country forms into his music.
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