The Live Anthology

The Live Anthology

The Live Anthology

The Live Anthology

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Overview

It's a commonly held opinion among fans and band alike that Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' lone live album, 1986's Pack Up the Plantation, didn't quite capture the group at its peak, so there has been a long-standing need for another live set, which 2009's Live Anthology finally provides. Like its closest cousin, Bruce Springsteen's Live 1975-1985, Live Anthology almost overcompensates for the long wait by offering almost too much music, cherry picking highlights from 1978 to 2007. In its simplest incarnation, Live Anthology is a super-affordable, four-disc box set running 48 tracks, which is eight cuts longer than Springsteen's box, plenty long enough for most fans, but in its deluxe version, there's an additional CD, plus two previously unreleased DVDs -- a 1978 New Year's Eve concert from Santa Monica, a documentary called 400 Days shot during the Wildflowers tour -- a Blu-Ray edition of all 62 tracks on the five-CD version, a vinyl copy of the 1976 Official Live 'Leg LP, plus a book and lithograph, along with other assorted bonuses. Certainly, the deluxe edition lives up to its billing, offering enough extras to justify its price tag, but the standard edition is plenty generous as it is, serving up enough consistently strong music from throughout the decades, ranging from expert covers of Willie Dixon and the Grateful Dead to deep treasures from the Heartbreakers catalog. Apart from the tendency to favor performances that stretch on a little too long with jamming -- something that is a matter of taste, as some prefer energy to improvisations -- if there's any flaw to the set, it's how it goes out of its way to prove the band's consistency by skipping through the decades, letting a version of "Louisiana Rain" from 1982 sit next to a 1997 cover of "Green Onions" and "Melinda" from 2003. This certainly goes a long way to illustrating that Petty & the Heartbreakers always delivered the goods, but it's somewhat at the expense of forward momentum; it's hard not to wish that it was arranged chronologically, to be able to hear the raw energy give way to easy skill, but that's just nit picking -- any way you look at it, this Live Anthology offers an overdose of prime rock & roll. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date: 11/23/2009
Label: Reprise / Warner Bros.
UPC: 0093624983699
Rank: 26264

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Ladies and Gentlemen
  2. Nightwatchman
  3. Even The Losers
  4. Here Comes My Girl
  5. A Thing About You
  6. I'm In Love
  7. I'm a Man
  8. Straight Into Darkness
  9. Breakdown
  10. Something In The Air
  11. I Just Want To Make Love To You
  12. Drivin' Down To Georgia
  13. Lost Without You
  14. Refugee

Disc 2

  1. Diddy Wah Diddy
  2. I Want You Back
  3. Wildflowers
  4. Friend of the Devil
  5. A Woman In Love (It's Not Me)
  6. It's Good To Be King
  7. Angel Dream (No. 2)
  8. Learning To Fly
  9. Mary Jane's Last Dance
  10. Mystic Eyes

Disc 3

  1. Jammin' Me
  2. The Wild One, Forever
  3. Green Onions
  4. Louisiana Rain
  5. Melinda
  6. Goldfinger
  7. Surrender
  8. Dreamville
  9. Spike
  10. Any Way You Want It
  11. American Girl

Disc 4

  1. Runnin' Down a Dream
  2. Oh Well
  3. Southern Accents
  4. Crawling Back To You
  5. My Life/Your World
  6. I Won't Back Down
  7. Square One
  8. Have Love Will Travel
  9. Free Fallin'
  10. The Waiting
  11. Good, Good Lovin'
  12. Century City
  13. Alright For Now

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers   Primary Artist
Tom Petty   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Maracas,Harmonica,Tambourine,Guitar (Acoustic)
David Hoskot   Percussion
Howie Epstein   Vocals (Background),Vocals,Guitar (Bass)
Scott Thurston   Guitar,Harmonica,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Mike Campbell   Guitar,Mandolin,Marxophone,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Ron Blair   Guitar (Bass),Vocals (Background)
Bobby Valentino   Fiddle
Jon Brion   Conductor
Benmont Tench   Organ,Piano,Keyboards,Chamberlin,Synthesizer,Piano (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Phil Jones   Percussion
Stevie Nicks   Vocals (Background)
Stan Lynch   Drums,Vocals (Background)
Steve Ferrone   Drums,Percussion

Technical Credits

Lenny Davidson   Composer
Tony Dimitriades   Management
Neal Preston   Cover Photo
Robert Scovill   Engineer
John Keen   Composer
Jim Lenahan   Announcer
Charles Kaplan   Engineer
Albert Shubert   Composer
Dr. White   Engineer
Laurence Freedman   Management
Mary Klauzer   Management
Stewart Bennett   Engineer
Ryan Hewitt   Engineer
Rod Argent   Composer
Van Morrison   Composer
John Barry   Composer
Jerry Garcia   Composer
Richard Dodd   Engineer
Koko Taylor   Composer
Mike Campbell   Composer,Producer
Mark Williams   Engineer
Dave Clark   Composer
Shepard Fairey   Design,Cover Art,Art Direction
Don Smith   Mixing,Engineer
Jeff Lynne   Composer
Leslie Bricusse   Composer
Jon Brion   Orchestral Arrangements
Thom Pananzio   Engineer
Al Jackson, Jr.   Composer
Dave Stewart   Composer
Tom Petty   Composer,Producer,Liner Notes
Steve Cropper   Composer
Anthony Newley   Composer
Booker T. Jones   Composer
Benmont Tench   Composer
John Dawson   Composer
Westwood One   Mixing,Engineer
Lewie Steinberg   Composer
Robert Hunter   Composer
Peter Green   Composer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Ryan Ulyate   Mixing,Producer
Shelly Yakus   Engineer
Bobby Womack   Composer
Biff Dawes   Engineer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Chris Bellman   Mastering
James Brown   Composer
Greg Hartman   Engineer
Ellas McDaniel   Composer
Greg Looper   Engineer
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