Hear John Mellencamp's 'Plain Spoken' New Single 'Troubled Man'

John Mellencamp will return from a four-year recording hiatus on September 23rd with Plain Spoken, his first album under a groundbreaking “lifetime contract” with Republic Records. Below, listen to an exclusive stream of its lead single, the acoustic guitar-driven “Troubled Man.”

The disc is Mellencamp’s third consecutive collaboration with producer T Bone Burnett. “I…