My Favourite Album of 2018: An American Treasure - Tom Petty

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An American Treasure - Tom Petty

Reprise Records

 Compiled by: Mike Campbell, Adria Petty, Dana Petty, Benmont Tench, and Ryan Ulyate

Released 28th September 2018

US Chart #9

UK Chart #38

 

Listen To The Whole Album Here.

  Tracklist
    1970's
1-1 Surrender (from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Sessions 1976)
1-2 Listen To Her Heart (Live at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA 1977-11-11)
1-3 Anything That's Rock 'N' Roll (Live at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA 1977-11-11)
1-4 When The Time Comes (from You're Gonna Get It! 1978-05-02)
1-5 You're Gonna Get It (Alternate Version feat. strings from You're Gonna Get It! Sessions 1978)
1-6 Radio Promotion Spot 1977
1-7 Rockin' Around (With You) (from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 1976-11-09)
1-8 Fooled Again (I Don't Like It) (Alternate Version from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 1976)
1-9 Breakdown (Live at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA November 11, 1977)
1-10 The Wild One, Forever (from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 1976-11-09)
1-11 No Second Thoughts (from You're Gonna Get It! 1978-05-02)
1-12 Here Comes My Girl (Alternate Version from Damn The Torpedoes Sessions 1979)
1-13 What Are You Doing In My Life (Alternate Version from Damn The Torpedoes Sessions 1979)
1-14 Louisiana Rain (Alternate Version from Damn The Torpedoes Sessions 1979)
1-15 Lost In Your Eyes (Unreleased Single from Mudcrutch Sessions 1974)
  
1980's
2-1 Keep A Little Soul (from Long After Dark Sessions 1982)   
2-2 Even The Losers (Live at Rochester Community War Memorial, Rochester, NY 1989)
2-3 Keeping Me Alive (from Long After Dark Sessions 1982)
2-4 Don't Treat Me Like A Stranger (UK B-side single of 'I Won't Back Down' April, 1989)
2-5 The Apartment Song (Demo Recording with Stevie Nicks 1984)
2-6 Concert Intro (Live Introduction by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Forum, Inglewood, CA 1981-06-28)
2-7 King's Road (Live at The Forum, Inglewood, CA 1981-06-28)
2-8 Clear The Aisles (Live Concert Announcement by Tom Petty, The Forum, Inglewood, CA 1981-06-28)
2-9 A Woman In Love (It's Not Me) (Live at The Forum, Inglewood, CA 1981-06-28)
2-10 Straight Into Darkness (Alternate Version from The Record Plant, Hollywood, CA 1982-05-05)
2-11 You Can Still Change Your Mind (from Hard Promises 1981-05-05)
2-12 Rebels (Alternate Version from Southern Accents Sessions 1985)   
2-13 Deliver Me (Alternate Version from Long After Dark Sessions 1982)
2-14 Alright For Now (Album track from Full Moon Fever 1989-04-24)
2-15 The Damage You've Done (Alternate Version from Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Sessions 1987)
2-16 The Best Of Everything (Alternate Version from Southern Accents Sessions 1985-03-26)   
2-17 Walkin' From The Fire (from Southern Accents Sessions 1984-03-01)   
2-18 King Of The Hill (Early Take with Roger McGuinn 1987-11-23)
  
1990's
3-1 I Won't Back Down (Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 1997-02-04)   
3-2 Gainesville (from Echo Sessions 1998-02-12)   
3-3 You And I Will Meet Again (from Into The Great Wide Open 1991-07-02)   
3-4 Into The Great Wide Open (Live at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, 1991-11-24)   
3-5 Two Gunslingers (Live at The Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 2013-05-25)   
3-6 Lonesome Dave (from Wildflowers Sessions 1993-07-23)   
3-7 To Find A Friend (from Wildflowers 1994-11-01)   
3-8 Crawling Back To You (from Wildflowers 1994-11-01)   
3-9 Wake Up Time (from Early Wildflowers Sessions 1992-08-12)   
3-10 Grew Up Fast (from Songs And Music From 'She's The One' 1996-08-06)   
3-11 I Don't Belong (from Echo Sessions 1998-12-03)   
3-12 Accused Of Love (from Echo 1999-04-13)   
3-13 Lonesome Sundown (from Echo 1999-04-13)   
3-14 Don't Fade On Me (from Wildflowers Sessions 1994-04-20)   
  
2000's
4-1 You And Me (Clubhouse Version 2007-11-09)
4-2 Have Love Will Travel (from The Last DJ 2002-10-08)
4-3 Money Becomes King (from The Last DJ 2002-10-08)
4-4 Bus To Tampa Bay (from Hypnotic Eye Sessions 2011-08-11)
4-5 Saving Grace (Live at Malibu Performing Arts Center, Malibu, CA 2006-06-16)
4-6 Down South (from Highway Companion 2006-07-25)
4-7 Southern Accents (Live at Stephen C. O'Connell Center, Gainesville, FL 2006-09-21)
4-8 Insider (Live with Stevie Nicks at O'Connell Center, Gainesville, FL 2006-09-21)
4-9 Two Men Talking (from Hypnotic Eye Sessions 2012-11-06)
4-10 Fault Lines (from Hypnotic Eye 2014-07-29)
4-11 Sins Of My Youth (Early Take from Hypnotic Eye Sessions 2012-11-12)
4-12 Good Enough (Alternate Version from Mojo Sessions 2012)
4-13 Something Good Coming (from Mojo 2010-07-15)
4-14 Save Your Water (from Mudcrutch 2 2016-05-20)
4-15 Like A Diamond (Alternate Version from The Last DJ Sessions 2002)
4-16 Hungry No More (Live at House Of Blues, Boston, MA 2016-06-15)

Tom Petty

20th October 1950 - 2nd October 2017

Almost a year after the passing of Tom Petty this marvellous collection of Studio, Outtakes, Alternate Versions and Live Recordings, including music from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty Solo and Mudcrutch spanning 1974 through to 2016 was released.

 Mudcrutch

In 1974 Mudcrutch had released one single three years before (Up in Mississippi in 1971 and decided to make their move from Gainesville, Florida to Los Angeles, California in the hope of making it. Failing to secure a spot on a major label they found someone who had some belief in them and signed with the Independent label Shelter Records which was owned by Leon Russell. They released Depot Street as a single in 1975 but it failed to chart. On this Boxset there's an unreleased single Lost In Your Eyes recorded in a 1974 session (the final track on Disc 1). 

In late 1975 Shelter decided to break the band up and retain only Tom Petty under contract.   Several months later, Petty regrouped with former Mudcrutch members Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench to form The Heartbreakers along with fellow Gainesville natives Stan Lynch (drums) and Ron Blair (bass).

 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty was probably not considered as "An American Treasure" back at the start as he and The Heartbreakers gained more attention in the UK when their debut album was released in November 1976. In the States it only peaked in the chart at #55 (and that was in 1978!) whilst in the UK it reached #24.

The Four CD Boxset covers the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s dedicating a disc to each era. The three live tracks from the Capitol Studios in 1977 (Listen To Her Heart, Anything That's Rock and Roll and Breakdown) are pretty cool. I recently picked up a copy of the whole show and it was great hearing them sounding so fresh back then. The rest of the tracks on Disc 1 cover the first three albums (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - 1976; You're Gonna Get It! - 1978; and Damn The Torpedoes - 1979). I love how the album opens with Surrender (an outtake from the Debut album).

On Disc 2 we enter the 80's and here we find some excellent stuff: Keep A Little Soul, an outtake from the Long After Dark Sessions is wonderful (Keeping Me Alive is another outtake from the same album). The only other outtake is Walkin' From The Fire which was recorded during sessions for Southern Accents.

Disc 3 contains some great stuff from Petty's Solo outing Wildflowers: a couple of Alternate versions and an Outtake in Lonesome Dave. Gainesville and I Don't Belong are Outtakes from the Echo Sessions.

Disc 4 contains Bus To Tampa Bay and Two Men Talking both Outtakes from Hypnotic Eye and there's alternate versions of tracks from The Last DJ, Hypnotic Eye and Mojo. 

What I really loved about this collection was that it would have been almost too easy to just bring together all the hit singles etc but they really went the extra mile to bring Outtakes, Alternate Versions, Live tracks and maybe lesser known album tracks by digging around into Tom Petty's archives. I guess if you wanted the hits then you are best looking elsewhere. This is really an album for the fans who are appreciative of some of the hidden gems that were maybe just gathering dust.

I'm glad to annouce this one as My Favourite Album of 2018.