REVIEW: Various Artists, You Got Lucky A Tribute To Tom Petty (Backyard Records)
- Bob Gajarsky
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers first started producing Southern rock at the tail end of the disco era. A tribute to their music has been presented on the new compilation album, You Got Lucky: A Tribute to Tom Petty.
As is the norm on compilations, the album goes through a series of valleys and peaks; some of the tracks linger along listlessly. However, there are a few points which make the album shine. Tim Rutili of Sub Pop's Red Red Meat, under the pseudonym of Dexter Methoropham, offers up a chillingly faithful version of Petty's "Southern Accents"; Cincinnati's Throneberry comes through on "Here Comes My Girl" and aMiniature rocks in "Century City".
Backyard Records is an offshoot of the Scotti Brothers label which is geared towards releases of alternative artists. The Petty tribute album is the result of a collaboration between Backyard and Alleged Records, whose original idea was to have Truck Stop Love record a Petty cover and eventually grew to include many of America's best independent rockers.
In conclusion, this compilation will be best appreciated by those fans who are into independent releases and fans of Petty's very early sound; the more refined sound doesn't fit well into this compilation.
Track listing: Everclear - American Girl; Engine Kid - Breakdown; Throneberry - Here Comes My Girl; Nectarine - Even The Losers; Truck Stop Love - Listen To Her Heart; Silkworm - Insider; Loud Lucy with Louise Post - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around; Edsel - You Got Lucky; Punchdrunk - Nightwatchman; Fig Dish - Don't Come Around Here No More; aMiniature - Century City; Dexter Methoropham - Southern Accents
