John Mellencamp - On the Rural Route 7609 (4 CD, 2010/FLAC)

 

On the Rural Route 7609 is a box set by rock singer/songwriter John Mellencamp that was released on June 15, 2010. The first part of the title refers to the song "Rural Route" (which is included in two versions) from his 2007 album Freedom's Road and the fact that Mellencamp's music and lifestyle have always been very rural in nature, and 7609 references that the set spans Mellencamp's entire recording career from 1976 to 2009. Said Mellencamp in the set's liner notes: "I started making records in '76, and the most recent track on the collection was done in '09. So Rural Route 7609; it's like an address. I thought it sounded cool." 


 

Disc one

  1.     Longest Days
  2.     Grandma's Theme – In the Baggage Coach Ahead (Alternate mix, without simulated record crackle)
  3.     Rural Route
  4.     Jackie Brown
  5.     Rain on the Scarecrow (Rough Harvest version)
  6.     Jim Crow - lyrics read by Cornel West **
  7.     Jim Crow
  8.     Big Daddy of Them All
  9.     Deep Blue Heart
  10.     Forgiveness
  11.     Don't Need This Body
  12.     Jenny at 16 (demo) *
  13.     Jack & Diane (writing demo)*
  14.     Jack & Diane

Disc two

  1.     The Real Life - lyrics read by Joanne Woodward **
  2.     Ghost Towns Along the Highway
  3.     The Full Catastrophe
  4.     Authority Song (writing demo)*
  5.     Troubled Land
  6.     To Washington
  7.     Our Country (alternative version)*
  8.     Country Gentlemen
  9.     Freedom's Road
  10.     Mr. Bellows (remixed version) *
  11.     Rodeo Clown
  12.     Love and Happiness (Rough Harvest version)
  13.     Pink Houses

Disc three

  1.     If I Die Sudden (live)
  2.     Someday
  3.     Between a Laugh and a Tear (Rough Harvest version)
  4.     Void in My Heart * (Recorded live at Chess Studios in May 1989)
  5.     Death Letter
  6.     Sugar Marie (2009 acoustic) *
  7.     Theo and Weird Henry
  8.     When Jesus Left Birmingham
  9.     L.U.V.
  10.     Thank You
  11.     Women Seem
  12.     The World Don't Bother Me None*
  13.     Cherry Bomb (writing demo)*
  14.     Someday the Rains Will Fall (recorded in 2009 in room 636 Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas) on NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack – Vol. 2 (2009)
  15.     A Ride Back Home

Disc four

  1.     My Aeroplane
  2.     Colored Lights (2009 recording. Written in 1985 for The Blasters) *
  3.     Just Like You
  4.     Young Without Lovers
  5.     To M.G. (Wherever She May Be) (2009 acoustic) *
  6.     Sweet Evening Breeze
  7.     What If I Came Knocking
  8.     County Fair
  9.     Peaceful World (acoustic) *
  10.     Your Life Is Now
  11.     For the Children
  12.     Rural Route (alternative version) *

* = Previously unreleased
** = Reading of lyrics 
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