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Life Death Love and Freedom | 
 enlarge | Artist: John Mellencamp
Label: Hear Music
Category: Music
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Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 442
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.3
MPN: 30822
UPC: 888072308220
EAN: 0888072308220
ASIN: B0018Q7K4O
Release Date: July 15, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Longest Days | | • | My Sweet Love | | • | If I Die Sudden | | • | Troubled Land | | • | Young Without Lovers | | • | John Cockers | | • | Don't Need This Body | | • | A Ride Back Home | | • | Without A Shot | | • | Jena | | • | Mean | | • | County Fair | | • | For The Children | | • | A Brand New Song |
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| Editorial Reviews:
People en Español
After Freedom's Road, his first album in five years, John Mellencamp made it clear why he had such loyal fans. He's made a career out of making himself vulnerable, with lyrics that undeniably come from the heart, and aided by his guitar, he generates a mood that's more Americana melancholy than pop. After a year of being somewhat of a recluse, Mellencamp is back with 14 tracks filled with anguish, pain, resentment, and frustration. In songs like "If I Die Sudden," "Don't Need This Body," and "Troubled Land," the singer-songwriter seems to be more like the Americana equivalent to Damien Rice rather than Bob Dylan, to whom he's been compared to before. It's a disc that, as my friend says, you can listen to while kicking a can and walking the streets. --Ernesto Sanchez (People en Espanol  ) Despues de Freedom's Road, su primer album en cinco anos, John Mellencamp dejo en claro porque tiene un sequito de fans tan leal. Durante su carrera se ha desvivido por mostrar su vulnerabilidad y al mismo tiempo proporcionar confort al escucha con liricas que innegablemente salen de su corazon, y con inseparable guitarra cuyo sonido lo coloca mas en el melancolico genero americana que en el pop. Un ano despues de su regreso tras su auto reclusion, Mellencamp vuelve con 14 temas llenos de angustia, dolor, arrepentimiento y enojo. En temas como "If I Die Sudden," "Don't Need This Body," y "Troubled Land," el cantautor parece ser la respuesta en Americana a Damien Rice mas que a Bob Dylan, con quien muchas veces se le llega a comparar. Eso no tiene nada malo, es un disco, como diria un amigo, para "patear latas mientras caminas escuchandolo" a gusto. --Ernesto Sanchez (People en Espanol )
Album Description
The man who has been called `the poet laureate of the interstate' has reached deep into his soul, bringing forth an album of unparalleled maturity powered by a piercing musical vision. Produced by T Bone Burnett ("O' Brother Where Art Thou," Robert Plant, Allison Krauss) Two disc package includes CD and high quality audio DVD.
Album Description
2008 release includes Audio DVD. About Life, Death, Love & Freedom was produced by T Bone Burnett (O' Brother Where Art Thou, Robert Plant with Allison Krauss). All songs written by John Mellencamp who has been called `the poet laureate of the interstate' and he reaches deep into his soul, bringing forth an album of unparalleled maturity powered by a piercing musical vision. This is a special two disc package CD with high quality audio DVD. This is the first-ever release in CODE, a proprietary audio technology that creates high-definition audio files that are virtually indistinguishable from the original master tapes. John Mellencamp has sold 12 million CDs in the SoundScan era alone! He was inducted earlier this year into the Rock`N'Roll Hall Fame and he is a Grammyr Award winner. The album's first single is 'My Sweet Love'. 14 tracks.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 80 more reviews...
John Mellencamp's New Release: Excellent Record December 29, 2008
I got this for Christmas. I am not an overwhelming Mellencamp fan. However, this CD is incredible! It is very well written, thought provoking and not overly cynical. I was grabbed by the first song. If you are looking for something quietly brilliant, understated but with a punch, this is the CD!!! I agree with one of the other reviewers, it is his best CD in a decade.
 #5 December 25, 2008
Rolling Stone recently listed this album as the #5 best album of 2008. I thought, "Jeepers creepers, maybe I better listen again." I understand that Mellencamp is a great story teller. I understand that because this is a darker album that this will appeal to people that aren't cheerful. However, I found the music boring. Gone is the melodic imagination that has marked the best of the Cougar's work. The songs go up on one line and down on the next. Unfortunately, that's the pattern over and over and over. My favorite track on the CD is "Jena" with Andy York's searing lead guitar. But most of the other tracks blend into each other with faceless melodies. So as a musician and singer, yes, I like Mellancamp. But as a songwriter, while the subjects of his songs are interesting, the melodies he uses on this set make it hard to pay attention. Taxi!
John Mellencamp On The Morning After? December 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am not implying with this review that this CD sounds like a hangover-it doesn't. This is actually one of only two John Mellencamp albums I purchased (the other is the wonderful The Lonesome Jubilee) and the other reviews here already explain how different this is from an album like that so I won't go into it again-why preach to the converted?Anyway yes this isn't exactly the happy singalong kind of rock tunes of Mellencamp's fast. At the same time there's no indication he intended anything like that to start with. One thing I must say is John Mellencamp had the good sense to include a lyric booklet with this (believe it or not some CD's still don't include them) because the lyrics are the best part of this music. This album doesn't feature any subject matter that is light-Mellencamp talks about racism and politics,issues he is well accustomed to from his past. But at the same time it's all from the point of view of a middle aged person who seems to feel there are less years ahead then behind,hence the word "death" in the albums title I guess. So this is one of his most mature albums to this point. T Bone Burnett brings his years of production experience to this music which results in a serious of folksy,bluesy rock songs that are all very downbeat even when the tempo goes up a bit such as "Jena" or "John Cockers". But somehow this doesn't end up downbeat for downbeats sake which is something I've heard in a few albums recently. It's only natural that because these 14 songs are so serious that the music would'nt be particularly happy. There is nothing on this album I don't like but if I had to pick one favorite it would be "Troubled Land"-it has a somewhat similar feeling musically to Bob Dylan's "Things Have Changed" but the lyrics take on the plight all of today's societies victims,notably farmers with a dead honest plea to "bring peace to this troubled land".The interesting part is the lyrics have no resolution:it ends abruptly with the phrase "but I keep travelin' on" so.......in the end life and peace is still a journey and we all write our own ending as it were. It's very Mellencamp really and one of a few songs here that has a strong optimistic overtone,even if it has no real conclusion.So hey-I am not one for all kinds of "dark" music but whatever it is they do I have a hard time saying no when it comes to the music of people like Dylan,Springsteen and John Mellencamp.
 So unique and so fresh! December 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This isn't the typical John Mellencamp, but it's still incredible music. Very passionate and very folksy. It's part Knopfler, part Dylan. It's so sincere and feels like the kind of music Mellencamp was born to sing.
Another great album November 28, 2008
John Mellencamp continues to hold my interest as a fan after almost 30 years. I really enjoy his style changes, yet staying true to his "style", and that he keeps his lyrics in the folk category. I recommend this album to old and new fans.
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