After a very nice 'Sad Clowns & Hillbillies' (see here), 'John Mellencamp' releases a new album 'Other People's Stuff' which is a kind of best of with titles taken over old albums but mostly American classics (see list below). We find the song 'Eyes on the Prize' which was sung in public at the White House in 2010 on the occasion of the music celebration of the civil rights movement (see video above) and which is certainly a message considering present political currents in the USA but also old titles that John had already played on his previous albums like 'To The River' which is one of his compositions of 1993, or 'Dark As A Dungeon' on the lives of minors' Merle Davis', or 'Wreck of the Old 97' on the 1903 railway disaster in Virginia that has become a country classic. In summary, with 'Other People's Stuff', 'John Mellecamp' has put together a sort of compilation of timeless titles he has recorded throughout his long career and which are all part of the history of American music, and this, for our greatest pleasure ...
Titles list :
To the River : John Mellecamp (1993)
Gambling Bar Room Blues : Jimmie Rodgers (1932)
Teardrops Will Fall : Dicky Doo and the Don'ts (1958)
In My Time of Dying : Blind Willie Johnson (1827)
Mobile Blue : Mickey Newbury (1971)
Eyes on the Prize : Reproduced from the traditional folk song ‘Keep Your Hands on the Plough’
Dark As A Durgeon : Merle Travis (1946)
Stones in My Passway : Robert Johnson (1937)
Wreck of the Old 97 : assigned to G. B. Grayson et Henry Whitter (1924)
I Don't Know Why I Love You : Stevie Wonder (1968) | |
