MOJO
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
MOJO
Mojo is the 12th studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on June 15, 2010 on CD and June 29 on BD. It was Petty's first album with the Heartbreakers in eight years. Mojo debuted at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling 125,000 copies in its first week of release.The album was also the band's first full album with bassist Ron Blair since 1981's Hard Promises, as he played on only two tracks on the previous Heartbreakers album, The Last DJ. -WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
Mojo is dynamite.
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Medium
A group of 60-year-old white dudes make a blues album. Pass.
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Prindle Record Reviews
They throw in a few ballads and jazzy minor-key things for breathing space, but more than half of the 15 songs are plain old 12-bar fuckle berries of various design.
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CoS
Mojo on the whole is a testament to the staying power of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and a familiar reminder of the Petty we all know so well.
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AV/MUSIC
while Mojo is amiable enough, it rarely sounds vital.
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SLANT
Mojo is about as evocative as a middle school civ report; you keep waiting for a line about Davie Crockett or the Alamo.
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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.
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The Austin Chronicle
It's slightly indulgent at more than an hour long, but more likely that's just Petty's way of offering love for what his ageless band can do.
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Boston Globe
While 12-bar twang, mean girls, and swampy harmonicas do populate the track list, Mojo is a rock record — and a good one at that.
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popMATTERS
It has some of the most well-written songs he’s released since at least as far back as 1985’s Southern Accents and, song for song, it maybe the finest recording of the band’s career.
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paste
The album may be the loosest of his career, an unfussy, shuffle-mode assortment of blues-infused jams and steel guitar-haunted ballads that abandon the structural perfection that shaped his canon.
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Entertainment
Tuneful and gently flowing, Mojo is endowed with the qualities diehards expect from Tom ''Watch Me Rock Out Without Breaking a Sweat'' Petty.
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BBC
The results are initially quite perky, as the band crash and charge through songs, but after a couple of plays everything becomes rather dull.
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NOW
Petty’s classic pop knack, breezy melodies and laid-back drawl take a back seat to Campbell’s meandering, jammy solos and the album’s overwhelmingly old-guy-blues sound.
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The Guardian
And in Don't Pull Me Over – a plea to a police officer for clemency over marijuana possession, set to an Eric Claptonesque vision of reggae – Petty may have written the worst song ever.
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sputnik music
A new classic from a band of old pros; after 34 years, this band has finally found their perfect chemistry. Mojo is worth every minute.
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NO DEPRESSION
The Heartbreakers have rarely rocked this hard or this loud and Petty has enough experience behind a microphone to pull off the swagger of Robert Plant or Roger Daltrey.
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BLUES ROCK REVIEW
If you are looking for a great blues-rock album you will love Mojo.
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Tape Op
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are proud of Mojo. They should be.
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ALL MUSIC
There’s a worn-out, regretful, and boringly meditative tone to so many tracks here -- this is not what one expects from a band that rocks as fine as this one can.
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MAGNET
This is something different. It’s extremely skilled spontaneity.
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Uncut
It’s never a good thing to find oneself thinking of a rock’n’roll album as decorous.
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popdose
Mojo offers more frustrating proof that the waiting is still the hardest part.
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DAILY NEWS
"Mojo" hasn't transformed The Heartbreakers into the world's most expansive or wild jam band, it has just enough of the looseness and freedom of boomer-era blues to show the rapport of a real band.
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Vintage Rock.com
The second and third time around, it gets a little muddier, deeper and starts to dig at the soul. Petty has that ability in his songwriting and performance style, and he isn't about to give up the fight.
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Chicago Tribune
MOJO has juice and guts but it also has some sweet balladry for the slow dancers and even a wacked-out reggae number that is unlike anything that Heartbreakers have done before.
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Journey Home
I love this album the Mojo is righteous and flying close to heaven.
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QRO
It’s difficult to hear over the restrained, musical style of these seasoned musicians, but the honest emotion and musical depth is there.
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Creative Loafing
Mojo has been characterized elsewhere as Petty’s blues album, which is only marginally true.
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Punk Rock Theory
Hell, this isn’t good enough for any band.
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American Songwriter
It’s about playing great music. Specifically, great jazz-blues music.
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glide magazine
15 tracks of rock and roll splendor.
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WBEZ91.5
"Mojo" is the laziest album of Petty's career.
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The Waster
Petty jam packs a solid punch of album cuts into a recording that lives up to the swagger and strut which it is so appropriately titled.
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Blinded by Sound
It stands apart from everything they’ve done which is an impressive achievement in and of itself for a band entering their fourth decade together.
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The Music Box
Petty took a lean, mean approach to recording Mojo. Because the songs were captured in as few takes as possible, without overdubs, the outing contains a sense of urgency that exudes an aura of youthful aggression.
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Madison.com
Here the group is in a relaxed mode.
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The Austin Chronicle
Petty's way of offering love for what his ageless band can do.
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Mixonline
A winner though and through, beautifully recorded (love all the interesting vocal treatments!) and further proof (as if we needed it) that this is truly one of the great American bands of all time.
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102.9MGK
Tom said he's just trying to make some good music that he likes and that this is more like a polaroid than a painting.
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exclaim
Mojo is yet another brilliant masquerade from a perennially overrated artist.
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GOLD MINE
Bringing music back to its roots, “Mojo” was recorded on the spot, no overdubs, no recording trickery.
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