John MellencampThe Good Samaritan Tour 2000

Mellencamp loose and unbuttoned, busking his own catalog in the open air. Captured across free outdoor shows, these performances strip the heartland hits down to sweat, strum, and crowd-roar, the songs reborn as ragged communal singalongs. There's a wonderfully off-the-cuff looseness to the whole affair. A warm, weathered snapshot of an American rocker among his people.