The first Johnny Cougar album, Chestnut Street Incident, was released by MCA in 1976, but failed to sell many copies. Mellencamp was not pleased with this decision and would later return to his birth name. DeFries decided to change Mellencamp’s last name to Cougar, believing that it made him more appealing to the record-buying public. After several misfires, the burgeoning musician landed a manager, Tony DeFries, who had worked with the likes of David Bowie. He recorded several demos of his songs and brought them to New York City to launch his career. I don’t want a great big house, I’ve got enough of those.Mellencamp enrolled at Indiana's Vincennes University and attempted to gain steady employment before returning to his music. And I said, I’ll tell you what, if you find that little, teeny Spanish house.
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He remembers discussing it with Goff, who was the one to locate the charming property in the first place: “I said, look, there’s a movie called One-Eyed Jacks and, in the movie, Karl Malden lives in this little adobe right on the ocean. you don’t even see that it’s there.”įittingly, it was a 1961 western starring Marlon Brando that inspired Mellencamp’s Montecito home purchase. “I spend a lot of time watching old films. (For example, a modern impressionistic painting by Donna Schuster can be seen above the mantle.) But the defining characteristic of the interior is a projector and screen setup. Some of the musician’s works can be seen on the walls, interspersed with softer pieces of art. Dark details, like hanging steel lights, punctuate the space. Mellencamp is particularly fond of his Montecito living room, which is decorated with brown leather chairs and tattered rugs. “Stuff you don’t see everywhere, Trevor knows what I like.” “They have really odd, old, one-of-a-kind pieces of furniture,” Mellencamp explains. Some of the pieces were sourced from Mellencamp’s three warehouses of furniture in Bloomington, Indiana, while others were purchased from purveyors such as L.A.’s Big Daddy’s Antiques. Here, Goff recreated his signature lived-in interiors: masculine, shabby furnishings with scatterings of industrialized references (for example, the Ridley motorcycle in the living room). I’m very lucky, I’ve lived an artist’s life.”)Īs with his other homes (which include residences in Indiana and New York), Mellencamp collaborated with his friend of 45 years, Trevor Goff. “I’m a singer-songwriter, that’s my real job, but I paint every day. A storage room was reimagined as an art studio for Mellencamp, whose paintings explore Americana through a lens influenced by the German expressionists of the 1900s. Mellencamp recruited his roadies to redo the three-bedroom house in three weeks, repainting the interiors in fresh white (including the brick and the wood beams). it takes a certain kind of colorful person to want to be up there. “You get this thing, particularly at night when the winds blow. Situated on six acres, the retreat is a remote one. Put more specifically, the former ranch is positioned on one of the peaks of Santa Barbara’s Toro Canyon, a perch which yields bracing views all the way out to the Pacific Ocean.
“It does have a very romantic feel to it. “Quite honestly, I see it as a place for me to go with an invited guest,” he explains, from his suite at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. On his 1983 album, Uh-Huh, John Mellencamp sang, “Little pink houses for you and me, oh yeah, for you and me.” But, in 2022, the iconic musician is humming about a little white house in Montecito, California.
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