John Mellencamp is going to be pretty busy for the next year or two. He’s going out on tour with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, and he plans on working on a new album, while on the road. On his website he says, “It just seemed like a good idea to do it this way. It gives the making of the album a new perspective and context — and it’s something I’ve never done before. I’ve gone into my Belmont Studio in Indiana for the last 30 years to make records, and this is another way to do it.”

Mellencamp is also working on a box set, which he says will be a “broad overview of my songwriting, and it will be much more about the writing than about the hit records or the versions of songs you may be familiar with.”