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Music CD - Tom Petty: Highway Companion
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Music CD: Highway Companion
Artist: Tom Petty
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $7.35
Your Save: $ 11.63 ( 61% )
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Manufacturer: American
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Tracks:
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1. Saving Grace
2. Square One
3. Flirting With Time
4. Down South
5. Jack
6. Turn This Car Around
7. Big Weekend
8. Night Driver
9. Damaged By Love
10. This Old Town
11. Ankle Deep
12. The Golden Rose
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624428527
Label: American
Manufacturer: American
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: American
Release Date: 2006-07-25
Studio: American
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Summary: Bought After NPR Interview
Comment: I bought this album after listening to Petty being interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air where he talked about making the album. Some of the songs on it are simply excellent - clearly the mark of a master songwriter at work.
Some of the few worthy of many, many, many repeated listens:
1. Square One
2. Down South
3. Saving Grace
4. This Old Town
5. Flirting with Time
Made me hunt out some of my older Tom Petty albums from the 80's and 90's. Very, very well done and worth every cent...and then some.
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Summary: 3.5 stars
Comment: A very laid back album, Highway Companion reminds me in places of a Neil Young offering. Perhaps too laid back, really, but if you're in the mood for something easy going then this would fit the bill nicely.
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Summary: Sucked!
Comment: I thought we would like this...it sucked. WE are in our late 40's, gave it to my son in his mid 20's...he likes it. Go figure! It's just a bit too new sound for us. We thought it would be good old Tom Petty sound. It wasn't.
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Summary: All that is good about Tom Petty stripped down slightly
Comment: The beat, the rhythm, the melodies, the words, the tunes, the voice and the accompagnying support stripped down, quieter than with the Heartbreakers. There may not be any runaway hits, but this album is a joy with never a weak moment. It is also a renewal for Tom Petty with a crisp fresh sound, plenty of variety and some memorable numbers such as Down South. How much this is due to the production experience of Jeff Lynne I am not sure. Anyway, I resisted a long time (over a year) before being tempted to buy this album and I have been listening to it with pleasure ever since.
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Summary: Fantastic CD! PETTY IS THE ONLY ONE KEEPING ROCK ALIVE TODAY!
Comment: Great Petty CD! But then again everything he's ever done is solid as a rock (except for "Southern Accents", maybe.)
Here's to "Keepin' Us Alive", Tom!!!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Four years after he took Elvis Costello's advice and bit the music/radio biz hands that have simultaneously fed and frustrated him for decades on the scabrous The Last DJ, Tom Petty returned to the studio with more personally introspective matters on his mind. Reuniting with producer/Wilbury sideman Jeff Lynne sans Heartbreakers for his third solo release proper, the veteran doesn't so much retool his trademark sound here as allow it the freedom to roam. The sonic landscape here is bluesier ("Saving Grace's opening shuffle, the haunting "Turn This Car Around") and more country-fried (the twangy energy of the blue collar lament "Big Weekend"), a return to familiar roots that produces subtly different results this time around. That sensibility now seasons songs as different as the stoned-elegant languor of "Night Driver" and the playful "Jack," where Petty and Lynn give a knowing nod and wink to the contemporary pop milieu. The stately, pop-perfect closer "Golden Rose" may lean on the Beatle-y side of their familiar sound, but it's a cliché the duo use both sparingly and shrewdly throughout, forging one of the veteran's most free-ranging and warmly satisfying efforts in a decade. Jerry McCulley Recommended Tom Petty Discography 
The Last DJ | 
Anthology: Through the Years | 
Wildflowers |
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