• Record Label: Sony
  • Release Date: Jun 3, 2003
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. This album doesn't sound that distant from the grass-roots rock of Mellencamp albums such as Scarecrow and The Lonesome Jubilee.
  2. Bursts with old-time voodoo bluster.
  3. Blender
    70
    His most intimate recording yet. [#17, p.138]
  4. The simpler style allows the tense commentary to come through loud and clear, as the band keeps up.
  5. Mellencamp's rawest album to date.
  6. 80
    This sounds like a brand-new, re-energized John Mellencamp.
User Score
6.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 5 out of 14
  1. WizardThe
    Jul 30, 2007
    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 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
    Jul 20, 2007
    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
    Feb 13, 2007
    0
    What Bill L said.