John Mellencamp American Fool LP Recycled Colored Vinyl " the Tennessee backwoods meets

" the Tennessee backwoods meets the urban street corner

First Brightening Format: Vinyl

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A decade on from its release and the album receives a glorious - and long overdue - vinyl repress

John Mellencamp American Fool LP Recycled Colored Vinyl " the Tennessee backwoods meetsPersonnel: John Cougar (vocals, guitar); Larry Crane, Mike Wanchic (guitar); George "Chocolate" Perry (bass); Ken Aronoff (drums). John Cougar and the American listening public became inseparable after this landmark album arrived in 1982. While AMERICAN FOOL wasn't John Cougar's first full length recording, it was the one wherein he gained commercial and artistic footing, and established a formula that would become his trademark style simple roots