JOHN COUGAR X-R7’S ENTIRE MIDWEST METROPOLIS

Renegade Stories Down Thru The Years: CINCINNATI, OHIO, October, 1976: As I’m unpacking the latest shipment of promo records from MCA, my ever-hopeful attention span locks onto the title of one “Johnny Cougar.” Chestnut Street Incident, it’s called, and the cover art, which features Mr. Cougar’s pouting, pompadoured visage stark against a moody gray background, strikes me as a direct cop of Lou Christie’s Lightening Strikes, one of my all-time top ten LPs.