Track Listing
1. Learning to Fly
2. Kings Highway
3. Into the Great Wide Open
4. Two Gunslingers
5. Dark of the Sun, The
6. All or Nothin'
7. All the Wrong Reasons
8. Too Good to Be True
9. Out in the Cold
10. You and I Will Meet Again
11. Makin' Some Noise
12. Built to Last
| Details | | Playing Time: | 44 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Jeff Lynne, Roger McGuinn | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty (vocals, guitar, percussion); Mike Campbell (guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, keyboards, bass); Benmont Tench (accordion, piano); Howie Epstein (bass, background vocals); Stan Lynch (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Jeff Lynne (guitar, keyboards, bass, background vocals); Richard Tandy (synthesizer); Roger McGuinn (background vocals).
Producers: Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Jeff Lynne.
Recorded at Rumbo Recorders, Studio C, Canoga Park, California.
Petty once represented the new wave of pop in the late 70s. There was an edge of punkiness to his music and that has served him well throughout his career. Very few stars as unassuming as Petty have courted all audiences and succeeded. This is a Jeff Lynne production, which would usually have had pundits making a heretic cross with their fingers. Fortunately, it was listened to for what it was: an excellent album of Petty songs played by the best support band in the world. "Learning To Fly," for example, has a simple repeated four-chord pattern, F C Am G, and out of this Petty has woven the perfect pop song. One of many.
Editorial Reviews
Simple, eloquent stories about growing up and making sense of one's youth.
New York Times (01/01/1992)
..a surprising return to form. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
4 Stars - Excellent - ..poignantly exhilarating... bracing with the sensation of the top down and wind in your hair.. One of Q Magazine's 50 best albums of 1991.
Q (08/01/1991)
4 Stars - Excellent - ..poignantly exhilarating... bracing with the sensation of the top down and wind in your hair.. One of Q Magazine's 50 best albums of 1991.
Q (08/01/1991)
Entertainment Weekly ..a surprising return to form. - Rating: B+
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