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Tom Petty’s ‘Long After Dark’ Gets a New Day in the Sun: Adria Petty on Curating the Deluxe Reissue and Sensitively Mining Dad’s Vault
Tom Petty's daughter Adria Petty talks about the new deluxe edition of the 1982 'Long After Dark' album, and her sensitivity in mining the vault.
To that end, there’s a new deluxe reissue of “Long After Dark” that contains a bonus LP’s or CD’s worth of additional tracks, including several previously unheard studio takes that Petty seriously considered putting on the original album. In a conversation with Variety, she finds the balance between noting that some real keepers got left on the cutting-room floor of the “Long After Dark” sessions, while not overstating that as any tragedy, making the case that the Jimmy Iovine-produced project (his last with the band) may have come out in the form that best suited it at the time. Tom is quoted in the liner notes as saying at a later point that this album felt like “treading water” a little bit, albeit “a good little rock and roll record.” Do you think that there was an attempt to have some kind of a through line, or a streamlining of the sound, that led to some of the songs being on the cutting room floor?
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