{"id":3460,"date":"2022-04-09T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2022-04-09T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:17:11","slug":"john-cougar-mellencamp-scarecrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/2022\/04\/09\/john-cougar-mellencamp-scarecrow\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cougar Mellencamp-Scarecrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"355\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/51kqwJMPHBL._SX355_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/51kqwJMPHBL._SX355_.jpg 355w, http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/51kqwJMPHBL._SX355_-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A really good record and his first really mature album after his recordings as John Cougar. This came out in 1985 and I bought it when I was living in Hull. This is more Roots Rock with the opening song &#8220;Rain On The Scarecrow&#8221; an angry response to farmers loosing their farms to corporate greed. Mellencamp was one of the founders of Farm Aid and played at their first show in 1986. I watched it on TV and recorded it on a  VCR  tape, which I still have along with my recording of Live Aid in 1985,when I was living in Salisbury Md. It was the first time Sammy Hagar apeared with Van Halen and I remember Sammy dropped a few F-bombs on live TV. Back to this record, side one is as good as any you would want to listen to. After &#8220;Rain On The Scarecrow&#8221; and John&#8217;s Grandmother singing an old song, there are two big hits &#8220;Small Town&#8217; and &#8220;Lonely Old Night&#8221;. &#8220;Minutes To Memories&#8221; is one of my favorites on the record and the one I put on my songs from 1985 mix tapes I made at the time. &#8220;Face Of The Nation&#8221; is also a good song. Side two although not qiute as consistant has another big hit, &#8220;R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.&#8221; and &#8220;Between A Laugh And A Tear&#8221; is anothe one I liked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really good record and his first really mature album after his recordings as John Cougar. This came out in&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/2022\/04\/09\/john-cougar-mellencamp-scarecrow\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Cougar Mellencamp-Scarecrow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}