Echo
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Echo
Echo is the 10th studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Released in April 1999, the album reached number 10 on the Billboard 200 aided by singles "Free Girl Now," "Swingin'" and "Room at the Top," which hit numbers 5, 17 and 19 respectively on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks in 1999. The album was the band's last collaboration with producer Rick Rubin, and was also the last to feature contributions from longtime bassist/vocalist Howie Epstein, who died of a heroin overdose in 2003. Despite still being a member of the band, Epstein is missing from the album's cover photo because he failed to show up for the photo shoot, and Petty ordered it to commence without him. Echo was certified Gold (500,000 copies sold) by the RIAA in July 1999, only three months after it was released. Echo is the only Heartbreakers' album to feature a lead vocal from another member of the band: Mike Campbell on "I Don't Wanna Fight." -WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
Echo puts the Heartbreakers back where they belong: in the garage and in front of the amplifier stacks.
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AV/MUSIC
Echo may just be the sound of Petty biding his time before his next inspired classic, but a Tom Petty album that's merely good is still worth hearing.
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ALL MUSIC
much of Echo feels like a by-product of Petty's divorce from his wife of over 20 years; even the intoxicating hard rock of "Free Girl Now" has a layer of sorrow and regret.
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Musicko
Despite the circumstances that surrounded it, “Echo” managed to sound victorious instead of vanquished.
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The Harvard Crimson
They may no longer be learning to fly, but they still won't back down.
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Mark Prindle
By no means should anybody count him out because of this record.
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The Music Box
Echo is exactly that what its title implies -- a reflection of Petty's own personal life that resonates with the emotions that he has endured over the past few years.
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Medium
it’s a deeply personal, angry, regret-filled and ultimately devastating album that deals with the collapse of Petty’s 22-year-career.
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Enjoy the Music
Echo is an incredibly appealing album.
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