Trouble No More - John Mellencamp
Metascore
68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Bursts with old-time voodoo bluster.
  2. The simpler style allows the tense commentary to come through loud and clear, as the band keeps up.
  3. 80
    This sounds like a brand-new, re-energized John Mellencamp.
  4. Mellencamp's rawest album to date.
  5. 70
    His most intimate recording yet. [#17, p.138]
  6. This album doesn't sound that distant from the grass-roots rock of Mellencamp albums such as Scarecrow and The Lonesome Jubilee.
  7. What gives it some distinction is that there's a freshness to the music, largely dervied from its quick recording, a quality that has been lacking in his records for many years now, arguably since Big Daddy.
  8. Trouble No More is good but it's never really all that exciting.
  9. 40
    If you really want to hear folk-blues played with rock'n'roll attitude then go back to Boomer's Story or Into The Purple Valley. [Oct 2003, p.111]
User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 5 out of 11
  1. WizardThe
    10
    This recording is a great blues/folk covers album by an American icon. I can't believe I found it in the "Overtsock" section at BMG Music Service. His last last song "To Washington" is more appropriate today than it was in 2003. Mellencamp rocks!!! Full Review »
  2. TomC
    3
    I guess you either love or hate his stuff. Being from Indiana he does not represent what I like in music, so I won't buy it.
  3. ScottE
    0
    What Bill L said.