John Mellencamp Strictly a One-Eyed Jack Vinyl LP (New/Sealed)

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2022 Album on Vinyl LP!
Featuring Several Songs with Bruce Springsteen!

"A long, long time ago / When I used to chase rainbows / I thought there was a pot of gold / When I got to the end / But there were many people there / And I said, 'What are you doing here?' / They said they were looking for the end of the rainbow," Mellencamp   sings on his new song, "Chasing Rainbows," a single from his highly anticipated 25th studio album, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack.

While "Chasing Rainbows" is the first official single from the record, listeners got their first taste of Strictly a One-Eyed Jack in September 2021 when Mellencamp teamed up with Bruce Springsteen for the duet "Wasted Days," which also   appears on the album.

"I worked on three songs on John's album and I spent some time in Indiana with him," Springsteen told Sirius XM's E Street Radio earlier this year. "I love John a lot. He's a great songwriter and I have become very close [with him] and had a lot of fun with him. I sang a little bit on his record."

Mellencamp shared two live albums in 2021 ahead of the full-length album. Lonely Street (Live 1984) arrived in May 2021 with a 17-song tracklist including "Shoot Out The Lights" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." In August 2021, he shared The Good Samaritan   Tour 2000 which included 12 songs across 43 minutes. It featured "All Along The Watchtower" and "In My Time Of Dying."

The latter album arrived alongside Mellencamp's documentary The Good Samaritan Tour 2000. The film was narrated by Matthew McConaughey, with special contributions by Nora Guthrie. It follows Mellencamp on his iconic 2000 tour in which he played free shows   across the country.

  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.       -Mark Deming, AllMusic.com      Features       Vinyl LP Made in Czech Republic     Explicit Content     Selections Side A:       I Always Lie to Strangers     Driving in the Rain     I Am a Man That Worries     Streets of Galilee     Sweet Honey Brown     Did You Say Such a Thing Side B:     Gone So Soon     Wasted Days     Simply a One-Eyed Jack     Chasing Rainbows     Lie to Me     A Life Full of Rain