Life, Death, Love and Freedom is the 20th folk rock album by singer-songwriter John Mellencamp and produced by T Bone Burnett.

At the end of 2008, Rolling Stone magazine named Life, Death, Love and Freedom No.

[13] Mellencamp has characterized the album as a collection of "modern electric folk songs."

In the liner notes to his 2010 box set On the Rural Route 7609, Mellencamp said of Life, Death, Love and Freedom: "I would put that album, that collection of songs, up against any record ever made.

Life, Death, Love and Freedom was the first album release to use the ΧΟΔΕ (CODE) process.