Fresh off of being told Billboard.com that the new album is “very, very, very organic — upright basses, cocktail (drum) kits, lots of acoustic guitars, really very atmospheric, absolutely one of the coolest sounding records that I’ve ever heard, of ours or anybody else’s.”
In related news, the Mellencamp/Stephen King musical “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,” details of which were first revealed by Billboard in 2000, will finally open in April 2009 at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre. Mellencamp wrote the score, while King wrote the script.
Here are John Mellencamp’s U.S. tour dates:
July 8: Philadelphia (Mann Music Center)
July 10: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon at Jones Beach Theater)
July 11: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)
July 14-15: Boston (Bank of America Pavilion)
July 18: Clarkston, Mich. (DTE Energy Music Theatre)
July 22: Chicago (Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island)
July 23: Cincinnati (Riverbend Music Center)
July 25: Oklahoma City (Ford Center)
July 27: Morrison, Colo. (Red Rocks Amphitheatre)
July 30: Santa Barbara, Calif. (Santa Barbara Bowl)
July 31: Los Angeles (Greek Theatre)
Aug. 2: Berkeley, Calif. (Greek Theatre)
