If you listen carefully to most of the songs, you'll hear slower versions of riffs and beats very similar to most of his older albums. and it's not necessarily a bad thing.In most of these songs (and especially the guitar licks in 'Turn This Car Around') there's a familiarity to Petty's older styles. There really isn't a bad song on this album. "Flirting with Time" and "Ankle Deep" have VERY similar melodies but the shared tune is a good one. As their pre-release as singles would indicate, Saving Grace and Big Weekend are the big numbers on this album.
I've listened to every song and the verdict is good. Well I just got done downloading "Highway Companion". “Saving Grace” begins things with an excited shuffle, but the undertow is there (“And it’s hard to say/ who you are these days / but you run on anyway”) and is most effective on the quietest numbers (“Square One,” “Damaged by Love”). It all adds up to one of Petty’s most poignant albums. (“If you don’t run, you rust,” he sings, echoing Neil Young in “Big Weekend”). Though the album’s title gives clue that Petty hears these songs as ones for the road, the mileage is wracking up. For this third solo album, Petty keeps it simple, reigning in the usual plush textures of producer Jeff Lynne for something closer to the stripped down folksy approach of his 1994 Wildflowers release. He’s never tried to do too much much like Neil Young, he’s found the direct path is the most convincing.
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