When musicians gathered for the first Farm Aid 21 years ago did you think that its efforts would still be needed today? I didn’t… and neither did organizer John Mellencamp. The rocker who founded the charity in 1985 with fellow musicians Willie Nelson and Neil Young recently told reporters that he and his friends were mainly concerned with saving family farms which were going out of business. “We thought we’d have the concert and the government would change things,” Mellencamp said. But, alas, that hasn’t been the case. Before taking the stage at the “almost-annual concert” Saturday, Mellencamp addressed the … Continue reading →