An American Treasure, the first posthumous Tom Petty project,
is designed as an aural biography of the late rocker, telling a tale
that begins with a Mudcrutch session from 1974, running through the
glory of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in 1976, and concluding with a
live version of “Hungry No More” from 2016, just over a year prior to
his tragic 2017 passing. Arriving roughly a year after Petty’s death,
the timing for An American Treasure makes sense — he certainly deserved a
tribute — but in strict discographical terms, there didn’t seem a need
for a second career-spanning box set, as he already had 1995’s
rarity-laden box Playback and a multi-disc The Live Anthology from 2009.
Happily, An American Treasure offers a story that’s not told on either
previous set, and that’s a complete picture of Petty’s career, told
entirely through byways, not highways. The compilers — a team consisting
of his widow Dana, wife Adria, bandmates Mike Campbell and Benmont
Tench, plus longtime producer Ryan Ulyate — made a conscious decision
not to replicate any material from Playback, which meant that there
wasn’t room for the original hit versions of any of Petty’s hits.
Ultimately, this meant that many of his best-known songs are nowhere to
be found on An American Treasure, but that winds up as a feature, not a
bug.
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is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E
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