John Cougar is the third studio album by John Mellencamp. It was his first album to be released in the US by his new record company Riva Records. Released in 1979, following the success in Australia of the single "I Need a Lover" from his previous album A Biography, John Cougar included the aforementioned track for U.S. audiences, as well as a re-working of A Biography's "Taxi Dancer".