John Mellencamp

On Cuttin' Heads, the fifty-year-old John Mellencamp deals with middle age by addressing
both external issues like race and the state of the nation (using feisty candor) and matters
of the heart (using an unusually restrained and confessional delivery). Put the personal and
political halves together, and you've got a portrait of the artist as a not-so-young man. He's
righteously indignant about racial divisions on "Cuttin' Heads" but streaks blunt r... More >