As reflected in my “Now Playing” sidebar, I’m in the mood for some music from the Heartland. I’ve recently read a very interesting article in Vanity Fair about Mellencamp and it’s made me dust off his music (can one really dust off an MP3 file?) and put it on heavy rotation. This is some great stuff. I really have fond and strong memories attached to the music on “Scarecrow”, which I played constantly during the summer of ’85. It was one of the CDs in my car that made me break out the drumsticks at stoplights. Yes, I mean that literally. I had drumstick in my car at one point, and for that CD, they were essential. Especially for the bridge in “Justice and Independence ’85”.
