The Lonesome Jubilee
1987 studio album by John Cougar Mellencamp / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Lonesome Jubilee is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, credited as John Cougar Mellencamp. The album was released by Mercury Records on August 24, 1987 (see 1987 in music).[1] Four singles were released from the album, the first two in 1987 and the last two in 1988.
The Lonesome Jubilee | ||||
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Released | August 24, 1987 (1987-08-24)[1] | |||
Recorded | September 1986 – June 1987 | |||
Studio | Belmont Mall (Belmont, Indiana)[2] | |||
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Length | 39:42 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
Producer | John Mellencamp, Don Gehman[2] | |||
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Singles from The Lonesome Jubilee | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Robert Christgau | A−[5] |
Rolling Stone | (mixed)[6] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
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[8] and became the artist's highest certified album by Music Canada (formerly the Canadian Recording Industry Association) becoming 6× platinum.[9] In The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for the year's best albums, The Lonesome Jubilee finished at No. 7.[10]
"We were on the road for a long time after Scarecrow, so we were together a lot as a band," Mellencamp said in a 1987 Creem Magazine feature. "For the first time ever, we talked about the record before we started. We had a very distinct vision of what should be happening here. At one point, The Lonesome Jubilee was supposed to be a double album, but at least 10 of the songs I'd written just didn't stick together with the idea and the sound we had in mind. So I just put those songs on a shelf, and cut it back down to a single record. Now, in the past, it was always 'Let's make it up as we go along' – and we did make some of The Lonesome Jubilee up as we went along. But we had a very clear idea of what we wanted it to sound like, even before it was written, right through to the day it was mastered."[11]