Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mojo Tour Edition (2010)

In order to perfect the edification of the dear blond heads, let us specify that 1978 was a tantalizing year for the renewal of American rock, which, from the beginnings of the Real Kids to those of Willie Loco Alexander, or the Heartbreakers, precisely (and that's without counting Mink DeVille's *Cabretta*, while in Old Europe, Joy Division was sharpening its weapons against the flaccid Scorpions), led one to believe that certain modest urban geniuses could maintain the punk rage without cutting themselves off from their roots.
Today, time has passed (since that is the only thing it knows how to do) and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers are offering their twelfth album, thereby putting an end to eight years of recording silence.

The group's intentions (with a lineup that has remained practically unchanged since its very beginnings – Benmont Tench and his liquid keyboards, the prolific guitar of Mike Campbell, the undisputed boss of the sessions – a thing rare enough to be highlighted) are clearly stated: *Mojo* (a slightly libidinous term specific to the blues) was recorded with the spontaneity of cronies who have known each other for over thirty years and have had the opportunity to polish this repertoire on stage many times, without overdubs and in the spirit of the jams with the recognized instrumental virtuosity of The Allman Brothers Band.

Thus, of the fifteen pieces on the program, some do not hesitate to shelter long choruses (generally of guitar) as so many variations of an initially rather simple theme, but all are nourished by a blues with colors ambered by the hot Californian sun. "Good Enough," at the conclusion of the program, thus brilliantly picks things up where Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" had left them (the dramaturgy of the rhythm section and the flight of the soloist), and, in all the preceding songs, we find the excitement that brought together, under the pen of a Dylan composing "Highway 61 Revisited," folk, country, rock and a world of possible differences. From the harmonica riff of a jubilant "Jefferson Jericho Blues" in the thunderous opening of the album to the melodic tenderness of "Something Good Coming," passing by the cunning waddle of "Candy" (and its definitive and politically incorrect "I don't drink Coca-Cola!"), the album provokes the irrepressible desire to go out and dance in the street and kiss your neighbor. Which is not very reasonable, but we are not here for that.

We are calling for a future meeting between Dylan and this quietly sovereign group (we even pinch ourselves listening to "No Reason to Cry," finding some absolute premises there). But, in the meantime, there remains this formidable *Mojo*: at 60, Thomas Earl Petty demonstrates that he still has a hard-on, and not just for going fishing.

Tracklist:
1-1 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Jefferson Jericho Blues [3:23]
1-2 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - First Flash of Freedom [6:53]
1-4 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Trip to Pirate's Cove [4:59]
1-5 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Candy [4:11]
1-6 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - No Reason to Cry [3:04]
1-7 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - I Should Have Known It [3:36]
1-8 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - U.S. 41 [3:00]
1-9 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Takin' My Time [4:21]
1-10 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Let Yourself Go [3:23]
1-11 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don't Pull Me Over [4:04]
1-12 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Lover's Touch [4:23]
1-13 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - High in the Morning [3:36]
1-14 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Something Good Coming [4:11]
1-15 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Good Enough [5:51]
1-16 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Listen To Her Heart (Live) [3:36]
1-17 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - You Don't Know How It Feels (Live) [6:27]
1-18 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - I Won't Back Down (Live) [3:08]
1-19 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Takin' My Time (Live) [4:28]
1-20 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - I Should Have Known It (Live) [4:13]
1-21 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Sweet William (Live) [5:16]
1-22 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Jefferson Jericho Blues (Live) [3:35]
1-23 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - First Flash Of Freedom (Live) [6:26]
1-24 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Running Man's Bible (Live) [6:11]
1-25 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Good Enough (Live) [5:56]
1-26 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Refugee (Live) [4:48]
1-27 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers;Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - American Girl (Live) [5:26]