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On the Rural Route 7609 Tracklist. 1. Longest Days Lyrics.

John Cougar is the third studio album by John Mellencamp. This was the first album with his new record company Riva Records and under the name "John Cougar. Released in 1979, following the Australian success of "I Need a Lover" from the previous year's A Biography (which did not receive a . release), the album included the aforementioned track for . audiences, as well as a re-working of A Biography's "Taxi Dancer.

More like JM's favourite picks from his career than a definitive anthology. Very heavy on more recent work with the odd rarity/unreleased track stashed here & there throughout the four discs. High quality packaging and there's a great interview with JM in the hardback book. If you're looking for a good career anthology try "Words and Music".

John Mellencamp (album). On the Rural Route 7609. John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), also known as John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. The first part of the title refers to the song "Rural Route" (which is included in two versions) from his 2007 album Freedom's Road and the fact that Mellencamp's music and lifestyle have always been very rural in nature, and 7609 references that the set spans Mellencamp's entire recording career from 1976 to 2009. Said Mellencamp in the set's liner notes: I started making records in ’76, and the most recent track on the collection was done in ‘09. So Rural Route 7609; it’s like an address. I thought it sounded cool.

Only John Mellencamp, whose career began with a series of wrong turns, raw determination, and the audaciousness to demand he be taken seriously could create a box set as strange, representative, and labyrinthine as On the Rural Route 7609. In the era of the track, Mellencamp has issued a massive, beautifully packaged, and exhaustively annotated four-disc career retrospective that doesn’t lean on his hits (many aren’t here), but rather on more obscure album cuts, outtakes, rarities (17 selections make their debuts here), and more recent material - numerous selections come from 2007’s.

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On the Rural Route 7609 is a box set by rock singer/songwriter John Mellencamp that was released on June 15, 2010. The first part of the title refers to the song "Rural Route" (which is included in two versions) from his 2007 album Freedom's Road and the fact that Mellencamp's music and lifestyle have always been very rural in nature, and 7609 references that the set spans Mellencamp's entire recording career from 1976 to 2009

Personnel: John Mellencamp: guitar, vocals; Dave Alvin: guitar; Nancy Arnold: oboe; Kenny Aronoff: percussion, drums; Joan Baez: vocals; T-Bone Burnett: bass, guitar; John Cascella: organ, piano, accordion, keyboards; Kenny Childers: guitar, vocals; Dane Clark: percussion, drums; Michael Clark: guitar; Larry Crane: gitar, vocals; Dennis Crouch: bass; Milton Davis: bass; Mike Dupke: drums; Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds: guitar, vocals; Karen Fairchild: vocals; Jay Ferguson . John Mellencamp: On The Rural Route 7609. Life, Death, Love & Freedom by Mike Perciaccante.