HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT – SEPTEMBER 25: Singer / songwriter John Mellencamp performs in concert during Farm Aid 2021 at the Xfinity Theater on September 25, 2021 in Hartford, Connecticut. (Photo by Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)
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John Mellencamp’s Scarecrow album will be released on November 4, 2022 as a deluxe reissue. In addition to remaster versions of the songs, there are also many previously unreleased tracks and alternative versions. You can already hear the song “Small Town” in three versions: as a remaster, demo and acoustic version.
The album will be released as a 2-CD version, LP box and digital – or as a combined 2CD+Blu-ray+LP Super Deluxe Edition. There is also a booklet with rare photos and new liner notes by music critic Anthony DeCurtis.
Scarecrow is Mellencamp’s eighth album and was originally released in 1985. It reached #2 on the US album charts. “For him, ‘Scarecrow’ is about creating an album that is not about John Cougar Mellencamp – but about, yes indeed, AMERICA,” wrote critic Jon Pareles in the New York Times on the release. “He wants to pay tribute to the workers in the interior, to break a lance for the less than glamorous life.”
Here you can listen to “Small Town” as a foretaste:
John Mellencamp: Scarecrow Deluxe track list
CD1
1. Rain On The Scarecrow
2. Grandma’s Theme
3. Small Town
4. Minutes To Memories
5. Lonely Ol’ Night
6. The Face Of The Nation
7. Justice And Independence ’85
8. Between A Laugh And A Tear
9. Rumble seat
10. You’ve Got To Stand For Somethin’
11. ROCK IN THE USA (A Salute To 60’s Rock)
12. The Kind Of Fella I Am
13. Small Town (Acoustic Version)
CD2
1. Under The Boardwalk
2. Lonely Ol’ Night (Rough Mix)
3. Between A Laugh And A Tear (Writer’s Demo)
4. Carolina Shag
5. Cold Sweat
6. Rumbleseat (Writer’s Demo)
7. Smart Guys
8. ROCK In The USA (A Salute To 60’s Rock) (Rough Mix)
9. Minutes To Memories (Rough Mix)
10. Shama Lama Ding Dong
11. Small Town (Writer’s Demo)
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