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Running Time 3:30
Performers Tom Petty (Lead Vocal), Tom Petty (Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lead Guitar), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Piano), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Organ), Howie Epstein (Bass Guitar), Howie Epstein (Background Vocal), Stan Lynch (Drums), George Drakoulias (Percussion), Tom Petty (Produced By), Mike/Michael Campbell (Produced By), Andy Udoff (Engineered By), George Drakoulias (Mixed By), Jim Scott (Mixed By)
CommentsRecorded at: Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, CA. Additional recording and mixed at: Johnny Yuma Recordings, Burbank, CA. Michael Steele, Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, and Vicki Peterson appear courtesy of Columbia Records From the same 1988 sessions that produced "Waiting for Tonight." Petty explains, "I made the concession that I would continue to work on a Heartbreakers album while I was making Full Moon Fever. The day we cut this I had no song, so I wrote this in my head on the way to the session. When I got there I acted like I had a song and went to the piano and figured out the chords. I thought it might be fun to do a real vocal-oriented number with all of them singing. Most of the band were very perplexed with the direction Mike and I were going - a lot of overdubbing. I don't think that everyone was terribly happy. They were confused. 'What IS this? What are we doing? This is not us!' But I quite liked it, so I just went, 'Well, maybe we should put this off.' I went back to doing what I had been doing. Then I joined the Traveling Wilburys and more time went by." "We were deep into working with Jeff Lynne at the time and the band was not included in that," Mike says. "We called them and said, 'We're going to try it Jeff's way,' so to speak. We'd learned these new tricks and we wanted to try them with the group. Of course, nowadays we're back to just playing." Howie Epstein says, "I think 'Travelin'' is great. It has some of Jeff's touch. It has a lot of input from the rest of the Heartbreakers also. I heard it the other day and I thought it was really good."
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Playback (1995)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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2008-08-18