John Cougar Mellencamp
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John Cougar Mellencamp is a successful, Hall of Fame rock singer whose work sold 27 million albums.[1]
His style has unpretentious, candid working class, small-town themes. "I was born in a small town," for example, rose to #1 on the pop charts in the 1980s.
"Jack and Diane" was another hit by Mellencamp, resonating with simple truths.
Mellencamp put Jesus into his lyrics, as in this verse from his "Small Town": "taught to fear Jesus in a small town."
Undeniably his most powerful song is "Pink Houses", a pointed criticism of income inequality, the opioid crisis, and Reaganomics.