Life, Death, Love and Freedom
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| Studio album by John Mellencamp | ||||
| Released | July 15, 2008 | |||
| Genre | Americana, Folk rock, Roots rock, Alt.country, Country rock, Blues, Heartland rock | |||
| Length | 49:40 | |||
| Label | Hear Music | |||
| Producer | T Bone Burnett | |||
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Life, Death, Love and Freedom is a folk rock album by singer-songwriter John Mellencamp and produced by T-Bone Burnett. It was released on July 15, 2008. At the end of 2008, Rolling Stone magazine named Life, Death, Love and Freedom No. 5 on its list of the 50 best albums of the year. The song "Troubled Land" was number 48 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Singles of 2008.[1] Antimusic.com named it number 18 on their top albums of the decade[2]. The album was named No. 38 in Q's 50 Best Albums of the Year 2008.[2]
Mellencamp has characterized the album as a collection of "modern electric folk songs." The album's first single was "My Sweet Love," and it was serviced to radio on June 10, 2008.
Quotable:
"I realized our country has written some sad motherfuckin' songs. I wanted to see if I had it in me to write like that....I see darkness everywhere, and I have to write about it. I don't care if I just sell six records. All I can do is keep on writing songs and singing."
-- Mellencamp on Life, Death, Love and Freedom in Rolling Stone magazine's 2008 spring music preview issue.
[edit] Release
Life, Death, Love and Freedom was the first album release to utilize the ΧΟΔΕ (CODE) process. T-Bone Burnett worked with engineers to developed CODE, a proprietary audio technology that creates high-definition audio files. The CODE version of "Life, Death, Love and Freedom" is a DVD that was packaged along with the standard CD version of the album.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by John Mellencamp.
- "Longest Days" – 3:11
- "My Sweet Love" – 3:27
- "If I Die Sudden" – 3:45
- "Troubled Land" – 3:23
- "Young Without Lovers" – 2:49
- "John Cockers" – 3:51
- "Don't Need This Body" – 3:26
- "A Ride Back Home" – 3:12
- duet with Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town
- "Without a Shot" – 3:40
- "Jena" – 3:41
- "Mean" – 2:34
- "County Fair" – 3:41
- "For the Children" – 4:36
- "A Brand New Song" – 3:58
[edit] References
- ^ "The 100 Best Singles of 2008". Rolling Stone (December 25, 2008). Retrieved 2008-12-25
- ^ The 50 Best Albums of 2008, Q, January 2009, p. 82
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