![]() The first line of the song: "I'm passing sleeping cities." The highway. Slowly, new elements are added to augment the guitar and vocal for the first minute of the song at which point bass and drums pick up the low end and the song finds its groove. The song opens with a chugging, boogie riff and Petty's distinctive vocal. This is a song written for the AM radio era. Three and a half minutes, get in, get out. If ZZ Top covered Canned Heat's "On the Road Again" it might sound like this. This is barebones rock 'n' roll: guitar, organ, bass, drum, and some terrific slide guitar work from Mike Campbell. "Saving Grace" is the first single off Petty's upcoming disc, Highway Companion. ![]() Maybe it is because as he reaches the 30th anniversary since releasing his first album he understands now more than ever what he does best. Maybe it is because he never strayed too far from them in the first place. Petty is reaching back to his roots on "Saving Grace" and he sounds completely comfortable. Mixed in with the band's classics were covers of Chicago blues and early rock 'n' roll standards. This song makes more sense if you saw Petty & The Heartbreakers terrific performance on Soundstage. This song screams to be played in a car stereo – it just makes more sense that way. I dare anyone to bitch about Lynne after listening to "Saving Grace." The counter to that is Lynne's production was too fussy and too mannered and it left fingerprints all over the record. Great Wide Open has great songs with a unified sound and that makes it at the very least a really good album even if it is not quite a classic. Petty fans had to be tearing at their clothes with the news he was once again making a solo record with Lynne if one accepts the premise the ex-ELO frontman ruined Great Wide Open. Most of the album's detractors, from what I can tell, pin the failings on album producer Jeff Lynne. Sure, a lot of people like the song but they love to take the piss out of the album. We are, it seems, the only two people on planet earth who love Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Into the Great Wide Open. On February 3, 2008, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at the Bridgestone Super Bowl XLII Halftime show.The Wife to Whom I'm Married and I are apparently in exclusive company. Petty has been managed by Tony Dimitriades since 1976. However, members of The Heartbreakers have played on each of his solo albums and the band has always backed him when touring in support of those albums. He has occasionally released solo work, as is the case with 2006's Highway Companion, on which he performed most of the backing instrumentation himself. Petty has been supported by his band, The Heartbreakers, for the majority of his career. Petty is also a vocal critic of the modern recording industry and the disappearance of independent radio stations. He has recorded a number of hit singles, many of which remain heavily played on adult contemporary and classic rock radio. Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and was a member of the Traveling Wilburys. ![]() E Bb A G E Bb A G E Bb A G A E Bb A G E Bb A G E Bb A G A B Eĭon't you baby?E Bb A G E Bb A G E Bb A G E
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