An American Treasure (2018)
Disc One
1. Surrender
2. Listen to Her Heart
3. Anything That's Rock 'N' Roll
4. When the Time Comes
5. You're Gonna Get It
6. Radio Promotion Spot
7. Rockin' Around (With You)
8. Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)
9. Breakdown
10.The Wild One, Forever
11.No Second Thoughts
12.Here Comes My Girl
13.What are You Doin' in My Life?
14.Louisiana Rain
15.Lost in Your Eyes
Disc Two
1. Keep a Little Soul
2. Even the Losers
3. Keeping Me Alive
4. Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger
5. The Apartment Song
6. Concert Intro
7. Kings Road
8. Clear the Aisles
9. A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)
10.Straight into Darkness
11.You Can Still Change Your Mind
12.Rebels
13.Deliver Me
14.Alright for Now
15.The Damage You've Done
16.The Best of Everything
17.Walkin' from the Fire
18.King of the Hill
Disc Three
1. I Won't Back Down
2. Gainesville
3. You and I Will Meet Again
4. Into the Great Wide Open
5. Two Gunslingers
6. Lonesome Dave
7. To Find a Friend
8. Crawling Back to You
9. Wake Up Time
10.Grew Up Fast
11.I Don't Belong
12.Accused of Love
13.Lonesome Sundown
14.Don't Fade on Me
Disc Four
1. You and Me
2. Have Love, Will Travel
3. Money Becomes King
4. Bus to Tampa Bay
5. Saving Grace
6. Down South
7. Southern Accents
8. Insider
9. Two Men Taling
10.Fault Lines
11.Sins of My Youth
12.Good Enough
13.Something Good Coming
14.Save Your Water
15.Like a Diamond
16.Hungry No More
This is one of those releases that you have to wonder if it would have ever seen the light of day had Tom Petty not
prematurely left us. My guess is serious fans (very serious) will look at this as a treasure trove, yet for most people, this will probably
go over as being "noteworthy" but not necessarily "essential".
4 CDs chocked full of outtakes, unreleased tracks, live songs, and demos. Everything here is definitely "good" but unlike a Bob Dylan or a
Bruce Springsteen, there's nothing really here that screams "must have". We must then remember that Petty released a 6 CD version back in the
early 1990s, Playback, that had about half of that monstrous collection devoted to similar outputs. So in a sense, this seems
like his closet is being cleaned out. I find it hard to conceive, though, that even the most devoted would listen to this often. It's nice to
have, but definitely not a must.
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