John Mellencamp-Strictly A One-Eyed Jack-CD-FLAC-2022-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : John Mellencamp                                   
   Album       : Strictly A One-Eyed Jack                          
    Label       : Republic Records                                   
    Genre       : Rock                                               
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2022-01-21                                         
   Quality     : 888 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 326.42 MB                                          
     Time        : 48:37 min                                          
    Url         : http://amazon.com/Strictly-One-Eyed-Jack-John-Mel 
                lencamp/dp/B09NDSLH2W/                           
  1.  I Always Lie To Strangers                                      3:36 
  2.  Driving In The Rain                                            3:25 
  3.  I Am A Man That Worries                                        4:33 
  4.  Streets Of Galilee                                             2:49 
  5.  Sweet Honey Brown                                              5:18 
  6.  Did You Say Such A Thing                                       3:39 
  7.  Gone So Soon                                                   3:31 
  8.  Wasted Days                                                    4:31 
  9.  Simply A One-Eyed Jack                                         4:41 
  10. Chasing Rainbows                                               3:27 
  11. Lie To Me                                                      3:30 
  12. A Life Full Of Rain                                            5:37 
     Through much of its history, rock & roll has walked hand in hand   
     with youth culture, and most major artists have seemed wary of     
     advancing age. Conventional wisdom has it that the greatest        
     compliment you can pay a veteran musician is that they sure don't  
     look or sound as old as they actually are, and that they still     
     appear young at heart. Through much of his career, John            
     Mellencamp has seemed ambivalent about rock stardom, so it makes   
     a certain sense that from 2010's No Better Than This onward, he's  
     been content to let his music reflect his time served on the       
     planet. These days, he leans more to folk than the heartland rock  
     that made him famous, and his vocals are steeped in audible grit   
     caused by many years of smoking and even more time shouting out    
     his songs. 2022's Strictly a One-Eyed Jack was released when       
     Mellencamp was 70 years of age, and he seems proud to be           
     something of a relic, a bit cranky and worn but with plenty to     
     say and no shyness about sharing his thoughts. He casts himself    
     as a cynic and a rogue in many of these songs, one with a certain  
     charm and a plentiful amount of swagger, and his rasp more than    
     suits the character, complementing the mournful, jazzy tone of     
     "Gone Too Soon," the bitter cynicism of "I Always Lie to           
     Strangers," and the fatalistic caution of "Streets of Galilee."    
     Mellencamp can still rock when he feels like it, though his        
     attack is lean and sharp like a razor, aiming to cut rather than   
     pummel. One of the major selling points of Strictly a One-Eyed     
     Jack is the appearance of Bruce Springsteen on three songs, and    
     while Springsteen is two years older, the grand irony is he        
     brings a more youthful energy to his tracks with his incisive      
     guitar work and vocals that show the passage of time while         
     befitting the mind of a man determined to make the most of every   
     day he has left. The rueful "Wasted Days," the album's first       
     single, feels like a look at one of the characters from The        
     Lonesome Jubilee 35 years down the road, and Mellencamp and        
     Springsteen make the most of its sadness and introspection.        
     However, the real winner is "Did You Say Such a Thing," where      
     Springsteen's wiry guitar and sly backing vocals goad Mellencamp   
     into a cockiness that bridges the gap between the Enlightened      
     Grouch and the Artist Formerly Known as Johnny Cougar. More than   
     most musicians of his commercial stature, John Mellencamp          
     embodies the stubborn independence of an artist who                
     unquestioningly follows his heart and his muse, and Strictly a     
     One-Eyed Jack is the work of a man accepting the passage of time   
     rather than fighting against it. As a songwriter and a performer,  
     it's a gambit that works in his favor.                             

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