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Mojo (album)

Mojo
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Studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Released June 15, 2010
Recorded April 28, 2009 – January 11, 2010
Studio The Clubhouse, Los Angeles, California
Genre Heartland rock, blues rock
Length 64:58
Label Reprise
Producer Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Ryan Ulyate
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers chronology
The Live Anthology
(2009)
Mojo
(2010)
Mojo Tour 2010
(2010)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 72/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars
The A.V. Club B–
Chicago Tribune 3/4 stars
Entertainment Weekly B
The Guardian 2/5 stars
Now 2/5 stars
Paste 8/10
PopMatters 8/10 stars
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars
Slant Magazine 2.5/5 stars

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 is Petty's first album with the Heartbreakers in eight years.Mojo debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling 125,000 copies in its first week of release. The album is 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.

In November 2009, Petty told Rolling Stone's David Fricke that it was his intention to record the album live in the studio without overdubs.

He said of the album's tone, "It's blues-based. Some of the tunes are longer, more jammy kind of music. A couple of tracks really sound like the Allman Brothers – not the songs but the atmosphere of the band."

The band began streaming a song from the album, "Good Enough", on their website on February 24, 2010, followed two days later by "First Flash of Freedom". Videos for "Jefferson Jericho Blues", "First Flash of Freedom", "I Should Have Known It", "Something Good Coming", and "Good Enough" were posted on the band's YouTube channel.

Tom Petty also released five of the songs prior to his and the Heartbreakers' Mojo tour via his YouTube account. The first of these was the single "Good Enough", released on March 4, 2010. The songs released as of June 10, 2010 are, in order of release:

The last three of the songs were clean, non-overdubbed songs filmed in his new studio, as he expressed in a roughly twelve-minute "Mojo Documentary". He notes that he has had the studio for "eight or nine years", which dates back approximately to before the recordings of his last studio album with the Heartbreakers, The Last DJ.


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