John Mellencamp’s music still has the three-chord twang and gritty vocals he learned from the Rolling Stones, country and Motown. But he has traded a young man’s bravado for grown-up disenchantment, wary determination and minor keys.
The singer-songwriter talks about writing eco lyrics, how she was done in by a roll of toilet paper and what’s so great about touring with her 8-month-old.
Neurosis has its Masonic tendencies. There’s an obsession with craft, and with mysticism — or at least the puniness of man’s will against larger forces.
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