Article: WORDS & MUSIC: JOHN MELLENCAMP'S GREATEST HITS; Two New Songs ... Every Hit From 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good' to 'Pink Houses' and 'R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.,' to 'Wild Night' and 'Peaceful World' the Biggest 'Best Of' Album of His Career.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- "John makes American music, music for all of us." So wrote the late Timothy White -- Editor in Chief of Billboard -- in 2001 when John Mellencamp was honored with Billboard's highest accolade, the Century Award for distinguished creative achievement. Now the best-known, best-loved of that music is available for the first time in the most expansive retrospective of his career, the two-CD WORDS & MUSIC: JOHN MELLENCAMP'S GREATEST HITS (Island/UMe), released October 19, 2004. The singer-songwriter- producer's only previous "best of" album was The Best That I Could Do (1978 -- 1988), a single-disc retrospective issued seven years ago.

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