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| | John Mellencamp, Trouble No More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The raw, rootsy and often bellicose rock fests of his younger days have given way, in recent years, to more mature and festive arrangements, introduced to fans rather triumphantly on 1996's Happy Go Lucky, a raucous concept album dwelling on aging, ennui and, of course, the suburban despair of the anonymous and lonely. |
 | | If anything, Mellencamp depends even more overtly on these most recent additions to his musical repertoire, as "Teardrops Will Fall" howls like wind through a golden vase with its chiming carnival of strings. |
 | | Simply stripping down the sound and billing this as Mellencamp's "return to roots unplugged album" might have caricatured both he and his latest project into a parody of their own good intentions. |
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