TOM PETTY And The Heartbreakers – Long After Dark [Deluxe Edition] (2024) *HQ*

Tomorrow will be released a newly remastered Deluxe Edition of TOM PETTY And The Heartbreakers‘ classic 1982 album ”Long After Dark”, featuring “You Got Lucky,” “Change of Heart,” and “Straight Into Darkness.” This expanded edition includes an extra disc with 12 re-discovered tracks, 7 of which are previously unreleased (featuring “Never Be You”).
The band’s fifth studio album features the hits ‘You Got Lucky’ and ‘Change of Heart’ and reached the top 10 in the US Billboard charts, although Petty would later grumble about being dissatisfied with the final record and the track selection.

Petty: “There was some music recorded for Long After Dark that didn’t get on the record, that I thought would’ve made it a better album. I left off…four things that I liked quite a bit. And probably a few more written that never even got in the door.”
The new Deluxe Edition seeks to address that and features the songs that were lost in the debate over the album’s original direction. Highlights include Petty’s version of ‘Never Be You’ (a country hit for Rosanne Cash), ‘Don’t Make Me Walk the Line’ and an up-tempo version of ‘Ways To Be Wicked’ (previously covered by Lone Justice), recorded at Applewood Studios in Denver, Colorado. Some additional tracks are taken from French TV sessions, including ‘Turning Point’ and the Everly Brothers influenced ‘Keeping Me Alive’.

Disc 1 – ORIGINAL ALBUM Remastered
01 – A One Story Town
02 – You Got Lucky
03 – Deliver Me
04 – Change Of Heart
05 – Finding Out
06 – We Stand A Chance
07 – Straight Into Darkness
08 – The Same Old You
09 – Between Two Worlds
10 – A Wasted Life

Disc 2 – REDISCOVERED TRACKS
01 – Stories We Could Tell (French TV)
02 – Never Be You
03 – Turning Point (Original Drums Version)
04 – Don’t Make Me Walk The Line
05 – Finding Out (French TV)
06 – Heartbreakers Beach Party (Extended Version)
07 – Keeping Me Alive (French TV)
08 – Straight Into Darkness (French TV)
09 – Ways To Be Wicked (Denver Sessions)
10 – Between Two Worlds (French TV)
11 – One On One
12 – Wild Thing

Tom Petty – lead vocals, guitars, Prophet 5 synthesizer
Mike Campbell – guitars, organ on “We Stand a Chance”
Howie Epstein – bass, backing vocals
Benmont Tench – keyboards, backing vocals
Stan Lynch – drums, backing vocals

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