These characters are kind of floating, free-range, down-and-outers, who are proud of themselves.” The guy was a John Huston character for sure- he’s Gay Langland or another one of his characters. That’s when I was able to look back and realize that all the songs were coming from the same place, the same voice.
“We had started recording and then the pandemic hit, so we had to stop. I’ve never planned anything in my life,” John Mellencamp says, while musing on the process of selecting the material that appears on his intimate, absorbing new studio record, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack.