Description
Label Review.
Radio Broadcast. The Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, AL on 6th October 1995.
Our Overview.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers belong to a special class of artists, a class comprised of those few acts that have sustained decades-long careers despite the restlessness of popular music's audience. The Heartbreakers' tours are among the most successful in the business, year after year. Together for some three plus decades, they have scored major hits in every one of those decades. They've earned 18 Grammy nominations, entry into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and prestigious lifetime achievement awards from Billboard, MTV, ASCAP, and other organisations. But, even as such accomplishments have earned Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers a spot alongside the giants of rock and roll , the band remains an anomaly amongst their peers.
While many among rock and roll's most celebrated performers have become captives of their own hits or have willingly settled into the la-z-boy chair of back catalogue, the Heartbreakers keep going back to the forge to hammer something new out of rock and roll's essential materials. The band's members have kept themselves deeply engaged in the possibilities of the music. And the audience picks up on this. Go to a live show and what you'll find is a multi-generational community of fans.
This 2CD set is a Classic Alabama Broadcast Recording from 1995. By the beginning of the 1990s, with their MCA contract coming to an end, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were proving as popular as ever they were. 1991 s Into The Great Wide Open was received warmly by critics and fans alike, and their 1993 Greatest Hits album sold in excess of 10 million copies. Now signed to Warner Bros., the group - sans original drummer Stan Lynch - teamed up with producer Rick Rubin to record Wildflowers, released on 1st November 1994. The album sold over three million copies and produced the Top 20 single You Don t Know How It Feels . To support this latest release, the band embarked on an extensive tour of North America, playing over 90 dates that year. The recording featured on this two disc set is taken from their performance at The Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, AL on 6th October 1995, a show recorded for FM radio broadcast nationwide in exceptional audio quality. Containing hits from across their entire catalogue - including You Don t Know How It Feels , Free Fallin , Don t Come Around Here No More and American Girl.
This 2CD set is sure to become a must-have live album for Tom Petty fans everywhere.