Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall

Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall
Live album by
John Mellencamp
ReleasedJuly 8, 2014
RecordedJuly 31, 2003
VenueTown Hall in New York City
Genre
LabelMercury
John Mellencamp chronology
No Better Than This
(2010) 		Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall
(2014) 		Plain Spoken
(2014)

Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall is a live album by singer-songwriter John Mellencamp released on July 8, 2014 on Mercury Records.[2][3] The album captures Mellencamp's live performance at Town Hall in New York City[4] on July 31, 2003, in which he performed every track from his 2003 Trouble No More covers album as well as several other songs, including his own "Small Town", "Paper in Fire", and "Pink Houses".

The album omits two songs he performed on the night—renditions of "House of the Rising Sun", a traditional folk song made popular by The Animals, 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."[5]

Track listing

CD and digital version

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

Vinyl version

Side one

  1. "Stones in My Passway" (Robert Johnson)
  2. "Death Letter" (Son House)
  3. "Joliet Bound" (Kansas Joe McCoy/Memphis Minnie)
  4. "Highway 61 Revisited" (Bob Dylan)
  5. "Baltimore Oriole" (Hoagy Carmichael/Paul Francis Webster)

Side two

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

References

  1. ^ Greene, Andy (July 17, 2014). "Performs Trouble No More At Town Hall". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  2. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "John Mellencamp - Performs Trouble No More: Live at Town Hall". AllMusic. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  3. ^ "John Mellencamp to Drop Live 'Trouble No More' in July, New Studio LP for Fall". May 13, 2014. Archived from the original on May 29, 2014.
  4. ^ Staunton, Terry (September 10, 2014). "John Mellencamp: ...Performs Trouble No More". Louder. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  5. ^ "When in Doubt, Sing About Death". August 4, 2003.