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| Artist: John Mellencamp
Label: Rounder / Pgd
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Sales Rank: 4018
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.2
UPC: 011661328426
EAN: 0011661328426
ASIN: B003NWS5DQ
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Retired library copy w/stickers; CD plays fine all the way through (tested on 2 players) & has scratches/wear; includes original cardboard case (which has some wear, surface tears on front and a few scratches), insert & disc
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| Tracks:
| • | Save Some Time To Dream | | • | The West End | | • | Right Behind Me | | • | A Graceful Fall | | • | No Better Than This | | • | Thinking About You | | • | Coming Down The Road | | • | No One Cares About Me | | • | Love At First Sight | | • | Don't Forget About Me | | • | Each Day Of Sorrow | | • | Easter Eve | | • | Clumsy Ol' World |
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Product Description
In an age of auto-tuned, computerized recordings, John Mellencamp's approach on his Rounder debut, No Better Than This, is refreshing. The entire album was recorded with Mellencamp and his band all playing live in one room using a 55 year-old Ampex tape recorder and just one vintage microphone. Legendary producer T Bone Burnett captured the stunning thirteen new Mellencamp originals at three historically important locations: Sun Studio in Memphis, TN (where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all first recorded); the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, GA (the oldest Black church in North America, dating to 1775); and in Room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, TX (where Robert Johnson made his first recordings in 1936). The songs on No Better Than This reflect classic American musical traditions including blues, folk, gospel, rockabilly, and country, while addressing such themes as the need for hope, the nature of relationships, and narratives that recount extraordinary occurrences in everyday life. Mellencamp says of the album, "It was absolutely the most fun I've ever had making a record in my life. It was about making music - organic music made by real musicians - that's heartfelt and written from the best place it can come from."
Album Description
2010 album from the American singer/songwriter. No Better Than This is an album of all new original songs that was recorded at a variety of historically significant locations around the south. The album was produced by T-Bone Burnett who earlier collaborated with Mellencamp on the much-lauded Life Death Love and Freedom. No Better Than This was recorded over the course of a few break days afforded Mellencamp when he was on tour of minor league ball parks last year, sharing the bill with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson. The album was recorded on vintage equipment - a 55 year old Ampex tape recorder with just one microphone - in Savannah at the First African Baptist Church, in Memphis at Sun Studios and in San Antonio in room 411 of the Gunter Hotel. Mellencamp wrote the 13 songs included on the album during a 13 day span last spring.
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