I see on John Mellencamp's Web site that the ex Mr. Cougar is headed out on the road this summer, and during the tour he's looking to get his bud and Fort Worth's own T Bone Burnett to produce a new record "as American folk as I've ever been," as Mellencamp puts it. Which isn't the part that got me interested. Says the site, Mellencamp hopes to record in "old hotels including the famed former Statler Hilton Hotel in Downtown
Dallas, where legendary bluesman Robert Johnson recorded 13 blues songs