John Mellencamp wows fans with 21 songs in just over two hours’ time during the first of two concerts at Golden Gate Theatre.
John Mellencamp wanted to make one thing perfectly clear to the audience at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco:Yet, Mellencamp doth protest too much, methinks.
He’s still championing social issues through song, both in his older numbers and in the new ones he’s been writing. His comments to the crowd on Friday — which was the first half of a two-night stand at the venue — make it clear just how much the art of songcraft still matters to him. And he works really hard to put on a show that matters both to the audience and to the musicians onstage.
From that soft-sell opener, Mellencamp quickly shifted into high gear for a great three-song run through “Paper in Fire,” “Minutes to Memories” and “Small Town,” the last of which truly got the crowd in party mode. All of those numbers hailed from the Mellencamp’s two ’80s albums — “Scarecrow” and “The Lonesome Jubilee” — which rank as the finest outings in his entire catalog. In all, eight of the 21 songs performed were from those two records.
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