that's a reasonable guest this evening oh here I am he's a perfect person to have on
this salute to the tri-state area he has a man who writes and sings about America he's
also from my home state of Indiana his latest album's called scarecrow and Tonight singing
Small Town please welcome John Cougar Mellencamp
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all my friends is a small town
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[Music] foreign [Music] I was born in a small town and he lived in a small town probably
die in a small town
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hey one two three [Music] [Applause] Megatron
once again folks playing pink houses please welcome Lisa germano on violin Larry crane
on mandolin and John Cougar Mellencamp folks [Applause] all right [Music] thank you well
that's black man with black cat living in a black neighborhood
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I never won in the kitchen cleaning up evening slide [Music] when you could you couldn't
stop a club [Music]
little pink houses
everything
[Music] but that's a young man in a T-shirt and his Mr ragnarola station he's got a greasy
hair smile and says Lord this must be my destination
cause he told me when I was younger I said boy
just like everybody else those little crazy dreams this cat I can't win
this evening [Music] thank you foreign
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and of course goes back if you know I'm singing all right [Music] well this people more people
what do then no no no good working some high rise an education now that's gone from Mexico
[Music] and this winners and Miss loses
no big deal cause a Simple Man David plays for the Thrills and pills bills that kill
us here in America now help us [Music] [Applause]
thank you very much a nice job you sound great thank you very much for being here I appreciate
it you excited to be here on our tri-state area show I thought it was going to be like
Indiana Ohio and Illinois
you know this is a uh you're probably tired of talking about this but I think people do
find it interesting that originally you're from Indiana yeah and uh you're now a global
rock and roll star but you choose to make your home still in is it Bloomington Indiana
you were born where in Seymour Seymour Indiana yes yeah right I have a large contingent here
from Seymour uh is Seymour near Bloomington right yeah it's about 45 minutes yeah and
what what's it like for you to be to be living there I mean you must you can't go anywhere
I would think well you know people like it they see me and they go yeah there goes John
and they just it's pretty most welcome say hi how you doing yeah they're real nice about
it yeah yeah you don't get folks driving by your house and all hours of the night yeah
it all depends you know and I got a record out sometimes there'll be kids out front and
people spray paint my columns in front of my house you know hi John Harley Davidson
and you don't mind that well I'll just go out there and wash it off but after a while
you know after like a couple of years of that well it's not like any place else I I gotta
you know I don't have any place else to go yeah but you know you're the reason you're
there is you just feel comfortable there that's your home oh that's my friend's arm my family's
there and uh I guess I don't make friends real easy so I it's easy for me to stay there
and plus you know your head didn't get that proportion yeah because my friends they say
oh John it's the same stuff he's playing 20 years ago not too impress with uh and you
shoot are the videos that we see are those shots there dude everything in Indiana I like
to like get people involved and it's fun when you uh can get your like your old high school
buddy to come yeah neighbors and stuff yeah that would be a big kick for the folks living
there yeah and uh yeah speaking of getting people involved your grandmother is on this
album yeah uh she said to me she calls my grandma calls me buddy and she sang an old
song from the depression and she goes well buddy I don't think it sounds very good but
if you like it okay and you took her into a recording studio I have my own recording
studio in Indiana so she just came over and she was you know as nervous as I am doing
this show yeah uh uh and it's so that's great now November 7th you begin a uh a big tour
yeah I'm gonna go out and slab it on the road for about two and a half years so it's uh
so look forward to I guess what's the first city there I don't know [Laughter] get on
the bus
I find this fascinating that you're still in Indiana it's a great place to be nice to
meet you John uh we'll do a uh commercial right and we'll be right back