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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Mike Campbell (vocals, guitar, bass); Benmont Tench (piano, electric pianos, organ, Chamberlin, Clavinet); Howie Epstein (bass, background vocals).
ECHO was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Room At The Top" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.
In his 24th year of recording, Tom Petty shows you can age gracefully in a medium known for its rampant ageism. ECHO finds Petty putting together a veiled confessional that refers indirectly to a recent separation from his wife. As always, Heartbreakers Mike Campbell (who helped out with production), Howie Epstein, and Ben Tench provide a solid musical bed for songs largely populated by female protagonists. "Free Girl Now" sounds an insistent message of liberation, "Lonesome" finds Petty using a forlorn twang to bid a heartfelt farewell to a lover who then goes on the road in search of adventure in "Swingin'" as harmonica and guitar steadily wail away.
In dealing with his interpersonal roadblocks, Petty remains a sturdy optimist. He picks himself up off the floor amidst a flurry of Campbell's sitar-flavored leads during "Won't Last Long," and bounces back from taking it on the chin on "Billy The Kid," which Tench peppers with swirling Clavinet and organ. Elsewhere, the native Floridian and his Heartbreakers go from impersonating the Byrds on "This One's For Me" to conjuring up pure rock & roll alchemy on the rollicking "About To Give Out" before wrapping things up with the bittersweet "One More Day, One More Night."
1999 album, certified gold, featuring 15 tracks including the hit 'Room At The Top'. Warner Bros.
Producers: Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Rick Rubin.
Engineers: Mike Campbell, Richard Dodd, Dave Schiffman.
Additional personnel: Scott Thurston (acoustic & electric guitars); Steve Ferrone (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion).Rolling Stone (4/29/99, pp.65-66) - 1/2 Stars (out of 5) - "...ECHO puts the Heartbreakers back where they belong; in the garage and in front of the amplifier stacks....It's Petty and the Heartbreakers standing their ground with wise-ass grins and loud guitars..."
Entertainment Weekly (4/16/99, p.58) - "...Petty's patented formula reverberates on every solidly crafted tune with the comforting predictability we've come to expect....the predominant roots-pop aesthetic heer is of a piece with Petty and the Heartbreakers' best work..." - Rating: A-
New Music Monthly (7/99, p.54) - "...File ECHO somewhere between GREAT WIDE OPEN and 1985's SOUTHERN ACCENTS - a fine addition to the catalog....Petty's lyrics, wry as ever, celebrate the losers with empathy..."
Mojo (Publisher) (5/99, p.96) - "...Petty's music is its lurching adolescent cockiness, its continued thing for strange girls who just blew in from the valley, the seamlessness of its mating Old South and Plantation with sports utility vehicle and cell-phone..." Echo Music Review Average Rating: (3.4 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews As a whole the best Petty album
There are many great Petty songs and you will not find the hits on this album. However, each song is solid. There is no filler. The album progresses in mood from track to track.
If you are expecting radio hits with filler you will not find it. If you like complete albums that tell a story and where each song is solid this is the best Petty can offer you.
Submitted by meek (Wichita, KS)
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 A little honesty never hurt anyone....
and that's what Tom & crew deliver on this excellent CD. Whether rockin' about it on "About to Give Out" or mellowing out on "Lonesome Sundown", Tom tells the truth about the good, the bad, & the ugly in life. Somewhat self-indulgent at times, there's something everyone can relate to on this CD. The instrumentation & tone allow this CD to work great as background music. The CD as whole makes for an excellent hour of time to dedicate to yourself.
Submitted by a reviewer (Bristol, VA)
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Great connection album
I call this a connection album because it connects all that Tom and the boys have done with the late 90s magic. "Room at the top" is a marvellous tune with good arrangements and the other songs really show that Tom has lots to give yet!!
A must-have!!
Submitted by dragster (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Deeply Personal and Emotional
This is a truly deep and personal album which seems inspired by a breakup or lost love. This is one of Petty's best albums lyrically and musically. Although there were no big hits from this album I believe history will look back kindly on this very under-rated record.
Submitted by Steve (Seal Beach, CA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Great Under-rated album
Not a standard Petty album, but there are some great tracks here. " room at the top" is worth the cost of the CD alone! Needs to be listened too a few times, and the more you hear it the more you will like.
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CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. "Can't Let Go" was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
Williams's fans waited a long six years for this album, as Lucinda went through music business hassles and a revolving door of producers. The reward for their patience is an album full of rootsy, heartfelt observations that alternately rock and mourn. CAR WHEELS is full of songs about loss and longing, like "Metal Firecracker," "Drunken Angel" and "I Lost It," but even when she's bemoaning her own lack of happiness on the bluesy "Joy," she lets loose with so much passion that it seems inevitable she'll find her emotional center again.
Produced largely by Steve Earle, CAR WHEELS is immersed in that late-'90s ...
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MULE VARIATIONS won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. "Hold On" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
Since 1993's BLACK RIDER album consisted of music written by Waits and William Burroughs to accompany a Robert Wilson play, hard-liners consider '92's BONE MACHINE to be the last "official" Waits album before the seven-year wait that ended with the release of MULE VARIATIONS. Unsurprisingly, Waits lives up to the expectations engendered by that lengthy wait. In fact, there are more stylistic threads connecting MULE VARIATIONS to BONE MACHINE than to BLACK RIDER.
The chugging rock drive of the opener "Big in Japan" (featuring Primus) recalls "Goin' Out West." "What's He Building?" is a wonderfully devilish spoken word piece a la Ken Nordine (one of Waits' heroes) much akin to BONE MACHINE's "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today." Waits also continues BONE MACHINE's ...
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"You Don't Know How It Feels" won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. WILDFLOWERS won a 1996 Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. WILDFLOWERS was also nominated for Best Rock Album.
It is hard to believe that Tom Petty first stepped onto the rock & roll carousel eighteen years ago. Hard to believe because the best moments of his sizable catalog--the perfect guitar pop of "American Girl," the faux-psychedelia of "Don't Come Around Here No More," the sharp-tongued putdowns like "Century City" and "Zombie Zoo"--have all developed a rare timeless quality. A quality that few, if any, of his contemporaries (Eddie Money, the Cars, etc.) were able to achieve. Harder, still, because in the course of his long career we've never noticed Petty gettin' on in years or becoming an anachronism.
So it is somehow appropriate that on WILDFLOWERS, his second "solo" ride without the full complement of the Heartbreakers, Petty's musings fall predominantly toward his current role in the world. Throughout ...
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