Mellencamp Honored By ASCAP
Mellencamp Honored By ASCAP: Taps John Mellencamp for Founders Award, John Mellencamp will be presented with the celebrated Founders Accolade at the 33rd anniversary ASCAP Pop Music Awards next ages in Los Angeles. Reported ByThe Bedrock and Roll Hall of Famer will be accustomed at the society’s April 27 bright at the Loews Hollywood Hotel.
“For the endure four decades, John Mellencamp has captured the American acquaintance in his songs,” said ASCAP President Paul Williams in a statement. “His communicable melodies and compassionate lyrics, captivated in workingman’s rock, accumulate life’s joys and struggles and brighten the animal condition. A civic treasure, he’s aswell one of the absolutely abundant music creators that can accomplish us care, move, applause and sing along.”
The Founders Accolade is bestowed anniversary year to “pioneering” ASCAP songwriters who accept fabricated “exceptional contributions to music by alarming and influencing their adolescent music creators.”
Mellencamp’s bays chiffonier is as able-bodied abounding as that of any artisan in the business. He’s a Grammy winner, a almsman of the John Steinbeck Award, ASCAP Foundation’s Champion Award, The Woody Guthrie Accolade and Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Accolade and he was inducted into the Bedrock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. Mellencamp's 22nd LP Plain Spoken alone in October 2008, peaking at No. 18 on the Billboard 200. Not bad for a guy who was initially bent to accomplish it as a painter.
Previous winners of the Founders Accolade cover Ashford & Simpson, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, Billy Joel, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS, Annie Lennox, Sir Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty, Smokey Robinson, Carly Simon, Patti Smith, Steely Dan, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Steven Tyler & Joe Perry (Aerosmith), Tom Waits, Ann & Nancy Wilson (Heart), Stevie Wonder and Neil Young.
Also on the night, Walk the Moon, the pop bandage abaft the all-over hit “Shut Up and Dance,” will be adored with the ASCAP Vanguard Award, which “recognizes the appulse of agreeable genres that advice appearance the approaching of American music,” according to ASCAP.
“It's an account and an alarming activity to be accustomed by ASCAP and the music-making community,” said Walk the Moon’s accompanist and keyboardist Nicholas Petricca. “Our adolescent artists and those who beleaguer and abutment us somehow actualize added and added stylish, aboriginal plan anniversary year, and we are actual appreciative to accept this accolade in such an agitative time, a part of such abounding people.”
Walk the Moon accompany a core of antecedent Vanguard Accolade honorees including The All-American Rejects, Arcade Fire, Bandage of Horses, Beastie Boys, Beck, Björk, Sara Bareilles, Diplo, fun., Jack Johnson, The Killers, Modest Mouse, The Strokes and St. Vincent.
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