Hard Promises (Remastered) Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

• 1 The Waiting 03:58
• 2 A Woman In Love (It's Not Me) 04:22
• 3 Nightwatchman 04:01
• 4 Something Big 04:44
• 5 Kings Road 03:24
• 6 Letting You Go 03:23
• 7 A Thing About You 03:31
• 8 Insider 04:23
• 9 The Criminal Kind 03:59
• 10 You Can Still Change Your Mind 04:17
• Total Runtime 40:02

Info for Hard Promises (Remastered)

Damn the Torpedoes wasn't simply a culmination of Tom Petty's art; it happened to be a huge success, enabling him to call the shots on its successor, Hard Promises. Infamously, he used his first album as a star to challenge the record industry's practice of charging more for A-list artists, demanding that Hard Promises should be listed for less than most records by an artist of his stature, but if that was the only thing notable about the album, it would have disappeared like Long After Dark. Instead, it offered a reaffirmation that Damn the Torpedoes wasn't a fluke. There's not much new on the surface, since it continues the sound of its predecessor, but it's filled with great songwriting, something that's as difficult to achieve as a distinctive sound. The opener, 'The Waiting,' became the best-known song on the record, but there's no discounting 'A Woman in Love (It's Not Me),' 'Nightwatchman,' 'Kings Road,' 'Insider,' and 'The Criminal Kind,' album tracks that would become fan favorites. If Hard Promises doesn't have the sweep of Damn the Torpedoes, that's because its predecessor was blessed with good timing and an unusually strong set of songs. Hard Promises isn't quite so epochal, yet it has a tremendous set of songs and a unified sound that makes it one of Petty's finest records.

„Hard Promises“ is Petty's first step towards the eclecticism that would mark his later work, and it's easily his most underrated album.

Tom Petty, vocals, 12 & 6 string guitar electric & acoustic guitars, bass, piano
Mike Campbell, 12 & 6 string guitar electric guitars, auto-harp, accordion, harmonium, bass
Benmont Tench, organ, piano, background vocals
Ron Blair, bass
Stan Lynch, drums, background vocals
Additional musicians:
Phil Jones, percussion
Stevie Nicks, harmony vocals
Donald 'Duck' Dunn, bass (on 'A Woman in Love“)
Sharon Celani, background vocals (on 'You Can Still Change Your Mind“)
Alan 'Bugs' Weidel, piano (on 'Nightwatchman“)

Recorded from 1980–1981 at Sound City, Van Nuys, Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA and Goodnight, LA
Produced by Jimmy Iovine, Tom Petty

Digitally remastered

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