MellencampJohn Mellencamp is not your typical rock star. Not only has he absorbed into his own work the influence of Faulkner Steinbeck and other literary giants he himself could have stepped straight from the pages of any of their great American novels. A complex colorful and larger than life character Mellencamp like Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash before him walks to the beat of his own drum. Mellencamp charts the life of one of the most fascinating characters in

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still the untalented head of the renowned First Steps clan

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