Mojo Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

• 1 Jefferson Jericho Blues 03:23
• 2 First Flash Of Freedom 06:53
• 3 Running Man's Bible 06:01
• 4 The Trip To Pirate's Cove 04:59
• 5 Candy 04:11
• 6 No Reason To Cry 03:04
• 7 I Should Have Known It 03:36
• 8 U.S. 41 03:00
• 9 Takin' My Time 04:21
• 10 Let Yourself Go 03:23
• 11 Don't Pull Me Over 04:04
• 12 Lover's Touch 04:23
• 13 High In The Morning 03:36
• 14 Something Good Coming 04:11
• 15 Good Enough 05:51
• 16 Little Girl Blues 03:08
• Total Runtime 01:08:04

Info for Mojo

Mojo' is the twelfth album from American heartland rock group Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. It is the band's first album together in eight years, since 2002's 'The Last DJ'. 'Mojo' was recorded largely without the use of studio overdubs, with most of the songs being recorded live. The album has a bluesy sound, with a roaming, jam-based feel to several of the tracks.

„Tom Petty has been fronting the Heartbreakers off and on (mostly on) for over 30 years now, and he and his band have been delivering a high level of no-frills, classy, and reconstituted American garage rock through all of it. Petty often gets lumped in with artists like Bruce Springsteen, whose careful and worked over lyrics carry a kind of instant nostalgia, but Petty's songwriting at its best cleverly bounces off of romance clichés, often with a desperate, lustful drawl and sneer, and he's usually more concerned with the here and now than he is about musing about what's been abused and lost in contemporary America.

Petty has always been more immediate than that -- until now, that is. Mojo is Petty's umpteenth album, and technically, the first he's done with the Heartbreakers since 2002's sly The Last DJ. This time out, he's tackling the blues, trying to graft the Heartbreakers' (Mike Campbell on guitar, Scott Thurston on guitar and harmonica, Benmont Tench on keyboards, Ron Blair on bass, and Steve Ferrone on drums) patented '60s garage sound to the Chicago blues sound of Chess Records in the '50s.

Sonically it certainly works, mostly because this is a wonderful band, but it seems a little tired, worn, and exhausted in spots, and there's a regretful and meditative tone to so many tracks here, which is not what one expects from a band as vital as this one. But the playing is solid, especially Campbell's clear and precise slide guitar leads, and if things don't always gel to the level of either the classic old Chess sides or this band's own impressive legacy, the good news is that the group will tour it, and this is as good a rock band as there is in the land.“ (Steve Leggett)

Tom Petty, vocals, guitar
Scott Thurston, guitar, harmonica
Mike Campbell, guitar
Benmont Tench, piano, organ
Steve Ferrone, drums, percussion

Recorded at The Clubhouse, Los Angeles April 2009 to January 2010
Produced by Ryan Ulyate, Mike Campbell, Tom Petty
Engineered by Ryan Ulyate, Greg Looper

Digitally remastered

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