John Mellencamp had a whole different experience than expected while recording his latest album:

Tavis: What was it like - I know this church in Savannah, the First African Baptist Church. What's it like recording in that particular locale? This is a place, as you mentioned earlier, that's part of the Underground Railroad. There are still holes, to this day, holes in the floor. They put those holes in the floor so that the slaves, my ancestors, could breathe and not suffocate underneath the floor where they were being hid out. Tell me about what it was like recording in that place.

Mellencamp: Well, even better than that, I'll tell you what it was like to be baptized in that place. I have a song that said, "I ain't been baptized, I ain't got no church," and one of the congregation, one of the women, came up and said, "So, John, you've not been baptized?" I said, "Well, I was christened when I was born." She says, "Well, would you like to be baptized here?" And I said, "Yeah."

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