Double LP Reissue!
Remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios!
The first thing that hits you about MOJO is that the spirit of the Mudcrutch sessions has carried on with the Heartbreakers. This is the sound of a band playing together in a room - not a studio - facing each other, all singing and playing at the same time. The music is alive, with no overdubs or studio trickery. What you hear is what they created on the spot at that time.
Tom Petty says, "With this album, I want to show other people what I hear with the band. MOJO is where the band lives when it's playing for itself."
As for the songs, MOJO showcases a wide variety of American music from rock n' roll to country and both electric and acoustic blues. And then there are the images in Petty's lyrics which slip in on the melodies and set up a home in your head: The barefoot girl in the high grass chewing on a stick of sugar cane, the run-in with the law that begins when a carload of buddies decide to party with the motel maids, and the hilariously audacious idea of opening an album with an electric blues rocker about Thomas Jefferson's love affair with Sally Hemings. Petty would probably chuck a rock at anyone who called him a poet, but he sure is a southern writer of humor and sensitivity.
MOJO has juice and guts but it also has some sweet balladry for the slow dancers and even a whacked-out reggae number that is unlike anything that Heartbreakers have done before.
Features:
Vinyl LP
Double LP
2010 Remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios
Mastered from the Uncompressed 24-Bit 48 KHZ Files
Selections:
Side One:
1. Jefferson Jericho Blues
2. First Flash Of Freedom
3. Running Man's Bible
Side Two:
1. The Trip To Pirate's Cove
2. Candy
3. No Reason To Cry
4. I Should Have Known It
Side Three:
1. U.S. 41
2. Takin' My Time
3. Let Yourself Go
4. Don't Pull Me Over
Side Four:
1. Lover's Touch
2. High In The Morning
3. Something Good Coming
4. Good Enough
Remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios!
The first thing that hits you about MOJO is that the spirit of the Mudcrutch sessions has carried on with the Heartbreakers. This is the sound of a band playing together in a room - not a studio - facing each other, all singing and playing at the same time. The music is alive, with no overdubs or studio trickery. What you hear is what they created on the spot at that time.
Tom Petty says, "With this album, I want to show other people what I hear with the band. MOJO is where the band lives when it's playing for itself."
As for the songs, MOJO showcases a wide variety of American music from rock n' roll to country and both electric and acoustic blues. And then there are the images in Petty's lyrics which slip in on the melodies and set up a home in your head: The barefoot girl in the high grass chewing on a stick of sugar cane, the run-in with the law that begins when a carload of buddies decide to party with the motel maids, and the hilariously audacious idea of opening an album with an electric blues rocker about Thomas Jefferson's love affair with Sally Hemings. Petty would probably chuck a rock at anyone who called him a poet, but he sure is a southern writer of humor and sensitivity.
MOJO has juice and guts but it also has some sweet balladry for the slow dancers and even a whacked-out reggae number that is unlike anything that Heartbreakers have done before.
Features:
Vinyl LP
Double LP
2010 Remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios
Mastered from the Uncompressed 24-Bit 48 KHZ Files
Selections:
Side One:
1. Jefferson Jericho Blues
2. First Flash Of Freedom
3. Running Man's Bible
Side Two:
1. The Trip To Pirate's Cove
2. Candy
3. No Reason To Cry
4. I Should Have Known It
Side Three:
1. U.S. 41
2. Takin' My Time
3. Let Yourself Go
4. Don't Pull Me Over
Side Four:
1. Lover's Touch
2. High In The Morning
3. Something Good Coming
4. Good Enough
