Released July 15, 2008 Artist John Mellencamp Label Hear Music | Length 49:40 Release date 15 July 2008 Producer T Bone Burnett | |
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Life, Death, Love and Freedom
(2008) Life, Death, Live and Freedom
(2009) Genres Rock music, Folk music, Heartland rock, Folk rock, Americana, Roots rock, Country rock, Alternative country Similar John Mellencamp albums, Blues albums | ||
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Life, Death, Love and Freedom is a folk rock album by singer-songwriter John Mellencamp and produced by T-Bone Burnett. It was released on July 15, 2008. At the end of 2008, Rolling Stone magazine named Life, Death, Love and Freedom No. 5 on its list of the 50 best albums of the year. The song "Troubled Land" was number 48 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Singles of 2008. Antimusic.com named it number 18 on their top albums of the decade list. The album was named No. 38 in Q's 50 Best Albums of the Year 2008.
Contents
Mellencamp has characterized the album as a collection of "modern electric folk songs." The album's first single was "My Sweet Love," and it was serviced to radio on June 10, 2008.
In the liner notes to his 2010 box set On the Rural Route 7609, Mellencamp said of Life, Death, Love and Freedom: "I would put that album, that collection of songs, up against any record ever made. In my mind that record is as good as just about any record ever made. That's a good feeling, to be able to finally say, 'hey, after nearly two dozen albums, I finally made a record that I think is as good as anything out there.'"
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Release
Life, Death, Love and Freedom was the first album release to utilize the ΧΟΔΕ (CODE) process. T-Bone Burnett worked with engineers to developed CODE, a proprietary audio technology that creates high-definition audio files. The CODE version of "Life, Death, Love and Freedom" is a DVD that was packaged along with the standard CD version of the album.
Track listing
All songs written by John Mellencamp.
- "Longest Days" – 3:11
- "My Sweet Love" – 3:27
- "If I Die Sudden" – 3:45
- "Troubled Land" – 3:23
- "Young Without Lovers" – 2:49
- "John Cockers" – 3:51
- "Don't Need This Body" – 3:26
- "A Ride Back Home" – 3:12
- duet with Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town
- "Without a Shot" – 3:40
- "Jena" – 3:41
- "Mean" – 2:34
- "County Fair" – 3:41
- "For the Children" – 4:36
- "A Brand New Song" – 3:58
Songs
1Longest Days3:10
2My Sweet Love3:27
3If I Die Sudden3:47