Product Code: 814 993 1
Artist: John Cougar
Origin: Austalasia
Label: Mercury (1982)
Format: LP
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Condition:
Cover: VG+
Record: VG+
Genre: Rock U

American Fool

Good clean vinyl with a smart cover showing minor creasing.

American Fool is the fifth studio album by John Mellencamp, released under the stage name John Cougar in 1982. The album was his commercial breakthrough, holding the #1 position on the Billboard album chart for nine weeks. It was one of 1982's best-selling albums.

According to a 1983 article in the Toledo Blade, the song "Danger List" originated when Mellencamp heard his guitarist Larry Crane playing some chords in a basement rehearsal room. "I turned on the tape recorder and sang 30 verses," Mellencamp explained. "I just made them up. Then I went and weeded out the ones I didn't like."