John Mellencamp's new album Life Death Love and Freedom feel likes penance for torturing TV viewers by selling "Our Country" to Chevy Trucks. Nobody's going to mistake the austere, haunted by mortality songs on LDLF, which was produced
by T-Bone Burnett and comes out next Tuesday, for flag-waving anthems. Mellencamp, whose head may or may not be as large in real life as it appears to be in the photo above, kicks off his summer tour at the Mann tonight, with Lucinda Williams opening. Below are clips of "My Sweet Love," the new Mellencamp single, and "Jena," a song about the racial strife in Jena, Louisiana in 2006 and 2007. The third shows Williams doing "World Without Tears," live in 2006.
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