Mojo : Tour Edition＜限定盤＞

Mojo - 4 stars out of 5 -- "15 crunching, clever, moving tracks....'I Should Have Known' is a leg-trembling Led Zep rocker, with Petty primal and vengeful..." Uncut - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Jefferson Jericho Blues' is an irresistible opener, a pugnacious choogle in the style of Dylan circa HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED." Entertainment Weekly - "Tuneful and gently flowing, MOJO is endowed by the qualities diehards expect..." -- Grade: B Billboard - "It's not news that these guys rock, but on their first new album in eight years the Heartbreakers have their MOJO working like they never have before -- which is a fine thing indeed." Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "MOJO is dynamite....The performances are natural knockouts -- cocksure grooves, pithy knife-play guitars and little overdub fuss -- worked up, then nailed, some on the first full take..." Paste - "The album may be the loosest of his career, an unfussy, shuffle-mode assortment of blues-infused jams and steel guitar-haunted ballads..."

Tom Petty has been fronting the Heartbreakers for over 30 years now, and the group has delivered a high level of no-frills, classy, and reconstituted American garage rock through all of it. On the group's first effort since 2002's The Last DJ, Petty changes things up by tackling the blues. Mojo grafts the Heartbreakers' patented sound to the Chicago blues music that appeared on Chess Records in the '50s. The playing is solid throughout, especially Campbell's clear and precise slide guitar leads. ~ Steve Leggett|

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