1987’s The Lonesome Jubilee by John Cougar Mellancamp. Terrific sound, bare-bones rock with accordion and fiddle accompaniment, a powerful black female backup singer, and poignant social-commentary lyrics about working class and poor people’s lives.
“I want to live the real life
I want to live my life close to the bone
Just because I’m middle-aged that don’t mean
I want to sit around my house and watch t.v.
I want the real life I want to live the real life”
Mellancamp’s best-ever work. “Check it out”…