Trouble No More Live at Town Hall

Trouble No More Live at Town Hall
Live album by John Mellencamp
Released July 8, 2014
Recorded Town Hall in New York City on July 31, 2003
Genre Americana, folk rock, roots rock, country blues, Delta blues, rockabilly, alternative country, heartland rock
Label Mercury Records
John Mellencamp chronology

No Better Than This
(2010)		 Trouble No More Live at Town Hall
(2014)		 Plain Spoken
(2014)

Trouble No More Live at Town Hall is a live album by singer/songwriter John Mellencamp released on July 8, 2014 on Mercury Records.[1] The album captures Mellencamp's live performance at Town Hall in New York City on July 31, 2003, in which he performed every track from his 2003 Trouble No More covers album in addition to renditions of "Highway 61 Revisited" by Bob Dylan and "House of the Rising Sun," a traditional folk song made popular by The Animals, and reworked versions of three of his own songs, "Small Town," "Paper in Fire," and "Pink Houses." The album will be released in CD, digital and vinyl formats, with the vinyl version containing only 10 of the 15 tracks that are on the CD and digital versions. While the official press release for the album states that the CD and digital versions of the album "feature the complete 15-song concert,[2] there are actually two tracks Mellencamp performed that night that are omitted -- the aforementioned "House of the Rising Sun" and "The End of the World," a 1962 Skeeter Davis hit that was on the original Trouble No More album.

In his original review of this performance in the New York Times, Jon Pareles wrote that Mellencamp's "scruffy baritone and its deep-seated rasp are rooted in 1960's soul, and he treated the old songs the way he would treat his own: adding instrumental hooks and often using a broad-shouldered beat direct from the Rolling Stones. He was seeking the spirit of the music, not its original performance style."[3]

Track listing

(CD and Digital Versions)

  1. "Stones in My Passway" (Johnson)
  2. "Death Letter" (House)
  3. "To Washington" (Traditional; new lyrics by Mellencamp)
  4. "Highway 61 Revisited" (Dylan)
  5. "Baltimore Oriole" (Carmichael/Webster)
  6. "Joliet Bound" (McCoy/McCoy)
  7. "Down in the Bottom" (Dixon)
  8. "Johnny Hart" (Guthrie)
  9. "Diamond Joe" (Traditional; new lyrics by Mellencamp)
  10. "John the Revelator" (Traditional)
  11. "Small Town" (Mellencamp)
  12. "Lafayette" (Williams)
  13. "Teardrops Will Fall" (Allard/Smith)
  14. "Paper in Fire" (Mellencamp)
  15. "Pink Houses" (Mellencamp)

(Vinyl Version)

Side One

  1. "Stones in My Passway" (Johnson)
  2. "Death Letter" (House)
  3. "Joliet Bound" (McCoy/McCoy)
  4. "Highway 61 Revisited" (Dylan)
  5. "Baltimore Oriole" (Carmichael/Webster)

Side Two

  1. "Diamond Joe" (Traditional; new lyrics by Mellencamp)
  2. "Down in the Bottom" (Dixon)
  3. "Small Town" (Mellencamp)
  4. "Paper in Fire" (Mellencamp)
  5. "Pink Houses" (Mellencamp)

References

  1. ↑ "John Mellencamp to Drop Live 'Trouble No More' in July, New Studio LP for Fall". May 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Trouble No More Live At Town Hall Debuts July 8th". June 17, 2014.
  3. ↑ "When in Doubt, Sing About Death". August 4, 2003.