We get a few visitors on this blog (just going by the spinning globe) from outside of the state and outside of the country for that matter. You may have heard of Indiana basketball, but I thought I would link a few videos that show you rural southern Indiana culture. The singer is
John Mellencamp who is from Seymour, IN, just up the road. He was real popular in the 1980's with songs like
Small Town ,
Pink Houses and
Cherry Bomb (which caused a stir back in the 80's by having a black man and white woman dancing in the video, we have come a long way) but I thought this song,
Rain on the Scarecrow shows our rural areas better than any video he has.
The video showed the plight of the American farmer in the 1980's and what is interesting or sad, I guess depending on your viewpoint, is that not much has changed since this video was made. That is one of the great things about rural southern Indiana, not much changes and yet it is what sometimes can be taken as negative also.
Mellecamp has sold over 30 million records world wide and if you are a Caucasian man from southern Indiana, his songs describe your life in many ways.
