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"Plain Spoken" is the 22nd studio album by American singer-songwriter and musician John Mellencamp. It was released on September 23, 2014 by Republic Records. Plain Spoken marks the first project of Mellencamp's new lifetime recording contract with Republic Records. The album's cover photo was taken by actress Meg Ryan, Mellencamp's ex-girlfriend.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Plain Spoken covers a variety of lyrical content in it’s ten song track list, from lost love to political views and world issues. It opens with Troubled Man, a song about unfulfilled promise and a perfectly fitting guitar riff for a Mellencamp record. It reintroduces us to that unmistakable husky voice most artists would have to smoke a pack of cigarettes just to get close to. Mellencamp sounds weary with a message and Troubled Man grabs your attention right away.
While Plain Spoken is definitely a less highly produced, fully fledged rock anthem like R.O.C.K in the U.S.A for example, this bare, folky sound feels like the stories of a hard working man, now kicking up his heels and reflecting on an incredible journey. --- renownedforsound.com
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