American Fool

John Mellencamp

About American Fool

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 No. 1 position on the Billboard album chart for nine weeks. 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." A remastered version was released on Mercury/Island/UMe on March 29, 2005; it includes one bonus track, the previously unreleased title track. 


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1982

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