false 2024-02-27 19:19:17 Strictly a One‐Eyed Jack 7 2022 2022-01-21 2022-01-21 49 Blues Contemporary Folk Folk Folk Rock Rock Rock And Roll Heartland Rock Roots Rock 113775 2378109 b210ef9b-6c34-4d55-b356-fd42c243f43f 0aad6b52-fd93-4ea4-9c5d-1f66e1bc9f0a 407f0cdd-b79f-47a1-8162-179eed8083ce /media/data/media5/Music/John Mellencamp/Strictly A One‐Eyed Jack (2022)/folder.jpg John Mellencamp AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/J/John Mellencamp/folder.jpg John Mellencamp Artist /config/metadata/People/J/John Mellencamp/folder.jpg John Mellencamp John Mellencamp 1 I Always Lie to Strangers 03:36 2 Driving in the Rain 03:25 3 I Am a Man That Worries 04:33 4 Streets of Galilee 02:49 5 Sweet Honey Brown 05:18 6 Did You Say Such a Thing 03:39 7 Gone So Soon 03:31 8 Wasted Days 04:31 9 Simply a One‐Eyed Jack 04:41 10 Chasing Rainbows 03:27 11 Lie to Me 03:30 12 A Life Full of Rain 05:37 John J. Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, followed by an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. Mellencamp found success in the 1980s while "honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style" that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles, including "Hurts So Good", "Jack & Diane", "Crumblin' Down", "Pink Houses", "Lonely Ol' Night", "Small Town", "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.", "Paper in Fire", and "Cherry Bomb". He has scored fourteen Top 20 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most songs by a solo artist to hit number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven. Mellencamp has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. He has sold over 60 million albums worldwide with 30 million of those in the US. His latest album of original songs, Orpheus Descending, was released in June 2023. Mellencamp is also one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois, to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Farm Aid concerts have remained an annual event over the past 37 years, and as of 2023 the organization has raised over $60 million.