The Lonesome Jubilee

by John Cougar Mellencamp

The Lonesome Jubilee cover art

Sharply expanding his standard arena-rock template, Mellencamp integrated traditional Appalachian instrumentation such as fiddles, accordions, and hammered dulcimers into the core arrangements. This roots-oriented shift serves as the perfect bedrock for his bleak, deeply conscious lyrical examinations of American economic decline and working-class struggles.

Genres

  • Heartland Rock

Tracklist

  1. Paper In Fire
  2. Down And Out In Paradise
  3. Check It Out
  4. The Real Life
  5. Cherry Bomb
  6. We Are The People
  7. Empty Hands
  8. Hard Times For An Honest Man
  9. Hotdogs And Hamburgers
  10. Rooty Toot Toot