Mudcrutch

over 30 years of great music and tom petty is still putting out great stuff

As with any good Tom Petty work of art, this CD is truly reminiscent of the early works of Tom Petty. Fun, intimate,classic and even better live in a small venue.

Kind of like wildflowers, but with a 70's sound. YEP!! 70's sound. I really think though, tom petty should stick to the HEART-BREAKERS and a new CD. AS WELL AS A GR. HITS #2. We need more albums with those GUYS. There getting old, don't waste there time , not makeing new albums. ALSO : To TOM PETTY.....Make a remake of the song " BROWN EYED GIRL ( Van-morrison ) ".............And put it on your next album...THAT SONG FITS YOUR STYLE and it would sound awsome with your voise.....REALLY.

When it came to "just plain Tom Petty" albums, we had '89's "Full Moon Fever", followed by '94's "Wildflowers". Then there was this humongous gap between that and '06's "Highway Companion". Now we finally have the piece that was supposed to go in there, in this album. The classic "Shady Grove" (which I first heard in junior high on a live Kingston Trio set). Then right away we get the best one; "Scare Easy". Other standouts are the Dave Dudley hit "Six Days On the Road", which was his followup to the spoken "Giddyup Go", They both became major forces during country's big nationwide radio breakout of the 1960s and it's good to hear Petty do one of them. He even does the extended Lynyrd Skynyrd thing in "Crystal River" when (as another reviwer pointed out) he doesn't usually do long stuff in the studio. When it comes to the McGuinn number "Lover Of the Bayou", though, I realize McGuinn's name might very well be the answer Petty would give to the question "who's your daddy?", but let's face it, McGuinn himself had a hard time doing justice to that song--the best version is to be found kicking off the live section of the Byrds' "Untitled". It remains the winnah and still champeen. It strikes me that Petty is at his best on these special projects apart from the Heartbreakers. Why the HB releases don't have that kind of direct, no BS energy is beyond me. Come on, TP--Jake Dylan is in your rear view mirror. It ain't like you don't have it anymore--this album proves that!

BEEN A TOM PETTY FAN FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS NOW AND ALLWAYS LIKED THE CLASSIC STUFF BETTER THAN HIS RESENT RELEASES,AND THIS I A RETURN TO THE CLASSIC TP AND ITS NOTTHING LESS THAN FANTASTIC,ADD THAT THE SOUND ON THIS CD IS GREAT IN FACT THE BEST IVE COME ACROSS IN A VERY LONG TIME.GREAT ALBUM GO BUY IT.