| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/warner Bros. | | UPC: 00093624729426 | | Release Date: 4/13/1999 | | Buy.com Sku: 60301118 | | Item#: M2QMQK | Format:  CD |
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| Released in 1999, Echo features Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers at their finest, with the songs "Room at the Top," "Counting on You," and the superb title track.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | 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). | | Additional personnel: Scott Thurston (acoustic & electric guitars); Steve Ferrone (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion). | | Producers: Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Rick Rubin. | | Engineers: Mike Campbell, Richard Dodd, Dave Schiffman. | | 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. | | Personnel: Tom Petty (vocals, guitar). | | 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." |
Musical Guests | | Steve Ferrone |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/13/1999 | | Original Release Date : 1999 | | Catalog ID : 47294 | | Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624729426 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | 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..." |
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| | Bio | | | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Not many artists can match Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' long record of commercial success along with a simultaneous period of creative growth and critical acclaim. In April 1996, Petty received UCLA's George & Ira Gershwin Award For Lifetime Musical Achievement. Previous recipients of the university's award include Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Petty was the first artist of the rock era to earn this distinction. "I may not own any George and Ira Gershwin records," said Petty at the ceremony, "but I'm honored to be here and I want to thank my fans for showing up at my concerts from time to time." In 1999, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers received their own star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, an honor that acknowledges both their musical achievements and their humanitarian involvement with such organizations as Greenpeace, the National Veteran's Foundation, USA Harvest, Rock & Wrap It Up, and AmFAR (the American Foundation for AIDS Research). Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers--hailing from Gainesville, Florida before officially forming in Los Angeles--kicked the musical doldrums of the mid-'70s in the face with their 1976 self-titled debut album. It featured a stripped-down-but-accomplished brand of rock that blended jumpy rhythm & blues rhythms, ringing guitars and keyboards, over which Petty grabbed listeners by their throats with his disarmingly blunt lyrics and extremely direct vocal style. Still, it took America a full year to catch up to the album. 1978's follow up, You're Gonna Get It!, proved the debut album's intensity was no fluke. Marking the band's first gold album, it featured the singles "Listen to Her Heart" and "I Need to Know." Success followed success (including Tom's debut solo album and his appearances as a member of The Traveling Wilbury's, as well as more hits with The Heartbreakers).
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