John Mellencamp

It doesn't seem right, using a word like mature to refer to a guy who used to bill himself as
Little Bastard – but these days, the word is just about inescapable when you talk about
John Mellencamp. For somebody whose work has always suggested a morbid fear of aging,
he's slipping into rock & roll's version of middle age pretty damn gracefully: His tenth album
– his fourth since he shocked a lot of people by getting good – isn't a big leap fo... More >