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[Info]
Artist : Tom Petty
Album : An American Treasure
Label : Reprise Records
Genre : Rock
Street Date : 2018-00-00
Quality : 270 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
Encoder : Lame 3.100 -V0
Size : 498.14MB
Time : 245:05min
Url : http://tinyurl.com/yy9anx9t
[Tracks]
Disc 1/4
1. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Surrender (Prev. Unreleased, 3:19
1976)
2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Listen To Her Heart (Live At The 3:19
Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 4/23/77)
3. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll 3:37
(Live At Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA, 11/11/77)
4. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - When The Time Comes (Alt. 3:04
Version, 1978)
5. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You're Gonna Get It (Alt. 3:14
Version, 1978)
6. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Radio Promotion Spot 0:27
7. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Rockin' Around (With You) (Album 2:19
Track, 1976)
8. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Fooled Again (I Don't Like It) 4:10
(Alt. Version, 1976)
9. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Breakdown (Live At Capitol 5:21
Studios, Hollywood, CA, 11/11/77)
10. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Wild One, Forever (Album 3:00
Track, 1976)
11. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - No Second Thoughts (Album Track, 2:39
1978)
12. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Here Comes My Girl (Alt. Version, 4:57
1979)
13. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - What Are You Doing In My Life 3:30
(Alt. Version, 1979)
14. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Louisiana Rain (Alt. Version, 5:04
1979)
15. Mudcrutch - Lost In Your Eyes (Prev. Unreleased, 1975) 4:47
Disc 2/4
1. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Keep A Little Soul (Prev. 3:08
Unreleased, 1982)
2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers (Live At 3:31
Rochester Community War Memorial, Rochester, NY, 9/9/89)
3. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Keeping Me Alive (Prev. 3:17
Unreleased, 1982)
4. Tom Petty - Don't Treat Me Like A Stranger (B-Side, 1989) 3:05
5. Tom Petty And Stevie Nicks - The Apartment Song (Demo, 1984) 2:34
6. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Concert Intro (Live At The Forum, 0:10
Inglewood, CA, 6/28/81)
7. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Kings Road (Live At The Forum, 5:13
Inglewood, CA, 6/28/81)
8. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Clear The Aisles (Live At The 0:16
Forum, Inglewood, CA, 6/28/81)
9. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - A Woman In Love (It's Not Me) 5:51
(Live At The Forum, Inglewood, CA, 6/28/81)
10. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Straight Into Darkness (Alt. 4:29
Version, 1982)
11. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You Can Still Change Your Mind 4:01
(Album Track, 1981)
12. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Rebels (Alt. Version, 1985) 5:18
13. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Deliver Me (Alt. Version, 1982) 3:55
14. Tom Petty - Alright For Now (Album Track, 1989) 2:00
15. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Damage You've Done (Alt. 4:00
Version, 1987)
16. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Best Of Everything (Alt. 4:02
Version, 1985)
17. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Walkin' From The Fire (Prev. 4:44
Unreleased, 1984)
18. Roger Mcguinn And Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - King Of The 4:00
Hill (Early Take, 1987)
Disc 3/4
1. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - I Won't Back Down (Live At The 3:39
Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, 2/4/87)
2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Gainesville (Prev. Unreleased, 4:05
1998)
3. Tom Petty - You And I Will Meet Again (Album Track, 1991) 3:38
4. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Into The Great Wide Open (Live At 4:15
Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA, 11/24/91)
5. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Two Gunslingers (Live At The 3:50
Beacon Theatre, New York, NY, 5/25/13)
6. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Lonesome Dave (Prev. Unreleased, 3:40
1993)
7. Tom Petty - To Find A Friend (Album Track, 1994) 3:19
8. Tom Petty - Crawling Back To You (Album Track, 1994) 5:02
9. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Wake Up Time (Alt. Take, 1992) 5:30
10. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Grew Up Fast (Album Track, 1998) 5:05
11. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - I Don't Belong (Prev. Unreleased, 2:54
1998)
12. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Accused Of Love (Album Track, 2:44
1999)
13. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Lonesome Sundown (Album Track, 4:31
1998)
14. Tom Petty - Don't Fade On Me (Alt. Take, 1994) 4:28
Disc 4/4
1. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You And Me (Clubhouse Version, 3:13
2007)
2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Have Love Will Travel (Album 4:05
Track, 2002)
3. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Money Becomes King (Album Track, 5:11
2002)
4. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Bus To Tampa Bay (Prev. 2:55
Unreleased, 2011)
5. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Saving Grace (Live At Malibu 3:30
Performing Arts Center, Malibu, CA, 7/26/06)
6. Tom Petty - Down South (Album Track, 2006) 3:25
7. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Southern Accents (Live At Stephen 5:02
C. O'Connell Center, Gainesville, FL, 9/21/06)
8. Tom Petty And Stevie Nicks - Insider (Live At Stephen C. 4:56
O'Connell Center, Gainesville, FL, 9/21/06)
9. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Two Men Talking (Prev. 6:53
Unreleased, 2012)
10. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Fault Lines (Album Track, 2014) 4:28
11. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Sins Of My Youth (Early Take, 3:39
2012)
12. Mudcrutch - Good Enough (Alt. Version, 2012) 5:48
13. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Something Good Coming (Album 4:10
Track, 2010)
14. Mudcrutch - Save Your Water (Album Track, 2016) 3:17
15. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Like A Diamond (Alt. Version, 4:15
2002)
16. Mudcrutch - Hungry No More (Live At House Of Blues, Boston, MA, 7:17
6/15/16)
[Notes]
An American Treasure, the first posthumous Tom Petty project, is designed as
an aural biography of the late rocker, telling a tale that begins with a
Mudcrutch session from 1974, running through the glory of Tom Petty & the
Heartbreakers in 1976, and concluding with a live version of "Hungry No
More" from 2016, just over a year prior to his tragic 2017 passing. Arriving
roughly a year after Petty's death, the timing for An American Treasure
makes sense -- he certainly deserved a tribute -- but in strict
discographical terms, there didn't seem to be a need for a second
career-spanning box set, as he already had 1995's rarity-laden box Playback
and a multi-disc The Live Anthology from 2009. Happily, An American Treasure
offers a story that's not told on either previous set, and that's a complete
picture of Petty's career, told entirely through byways, not highways. The
compilers -- a team consisting of his widow Dana, daughter Adria, bandmates
Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, plus longtime producer Ryan Ulyate -- made
a conscious decision not to replicate any material from Playback, which
meant that there wasn't room for the original hit versions of any of Petty's
hits. Ultimately, this meant that many of his best-known songs are nowhere
to be found on An American Treasure, but that winds up as a feature, not a
bug. In the absence of "American Girl," "Refugee," "The Waiting," and "Free
Falling," the spotlight shifts to the remarkable consistency of Tom Petty's
catalog, which is represented through deep cuts, alternate takes, live
versions, and unheard songs. Upon first glance at the track listing, it may
seem like there's not a treasure trove of unheard material, but as An
American Treasure plays, what becomes clear is that the bigger picture
counts more than the individual details. Not that the box doesn't serve up
some unexpected surprises from all eras: an alternate "Rebels" has a muscle
lacking on the original version, Echo generates two fine rarities in
"Gainesville" and "I Don't Belong," the plaintive outtake "Don't Fade on Me"
could've fit onto Wildflowers with no problem. It's fun to cherry-pick these
tracks, but An American Treasure carries a greater resonance by
demonstrating how Petty kept growing through the years, not only as a
songwriter but a performer; some of the best moments are hearing him sing
older songs later in his career. The trick An American Treasure pulls off is
weaving these latter-day performances into the place where the songs were
originally written, so this not only provides a narrative but also gives a
sense of continuity, which is a rare thing in a decades-spanning box like
this. As such, this box winds up as a fitting tribute to a rocker whose
touch was so casual, he could be easy to take for granted, but when his work
is looked at as a whole, he seems like a giant.