Chestnut Street Incident is the debut studio album by Johnny Cougar released in 1976.

[3] Signing on with David Bowie's manager, Tony Defries, Mellencamp travelled to New York City to cut this first album.

"[5] Mellencamp would later go on to say that he had no idea about the name change until he saw the final product and that nobody had ever called him "Johnny" before.

It would take Mellencamp 15 years to have his full real name on an album, Whenever We Wanted, in 1991.

The 1998 Original Masters rerelease added two bonus songs that were also covers.