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Tom Petty's Early Years Traced in New 5xLP Box Set

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will mark 50 years with Origins 1971-1978, a 5xLP box set due November 6 on UMe featuring seven unreleased songs and a 1977 live set.

Tom Petty’s Origins Explored in New 1970s-Era Box Set
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will mark their 50th anniversary with a new box set, Origins 1971-1978, out November 6 on UMe. The 5xLP collection documents the band's incubation and early years around its formation in 1976.

One disc, No Sleep Til L.A., compiles rarities spanning Petty's Mudcrutch years through the dawn of the Heartbreakers and will also receive a standalone release. It features seven unreleased songs. A video for one of them, "Parade of Loons," stars Iain Armitage, the young actor known for playing the title role in Young Sheldon.

The set includes 50th anniversary editions of the albums Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and You're Gonna Get It!, both newly mixed and mastered by Ryan Ulyate, the band's longtime producer and engineer. It also contains Live from the Record Plant 1977, a sessions recording released in full for the first time, and a rarities collection titled The Cut Out Bin.

The announcement precedes a Heartbreakers reunion at tonight's Americana Awards, where the band will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Chris Stapleton will join original Heartbreakers Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Stan Lynch and Ron Blair to open the show.

Beyond the 5xLP format, the box arrives in 4xCD and "uber deluxe" editions, each adding a Blu-ray and a DVD of the band's 1978 performance on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test. The vinyl editions include an 88-page fanzine with liner notes by David Fricke and Bud Scoppa, track-by-track annotations from the band, and various collectibles.

The tracklist runs:

LP1: No Sleep Til L.A.

  1. Parade of Loons
  2. You're Gonna Learn
  3. Another Lonely Night
  4. I Can't Fight It
  5. Depot Street
  6. Sin City
  7. Wild Eyes
  8. Unheard of Kind of Hero
  9. Up in Mississippi Tonight
  10. Satisfy Yourself
  11. Since You Said You Love Me
  12. Long Way

LP2: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (50th Anniversary Edition)

  1. Rockin' Around With You
  2. Breakdown
  3. Hometown Blues
  4. The Wild One, Forever
  5. Anything That's Rock 'N' Roll
  6. Strangered in the Night
  7. Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)
  8. Mystery Man
  9. Luna
  10. American Girl

LP3: You're Gonna Get It! (50th Anniversary Edition)

  1. When the Time Comes
  2. You're Gonna Get It
  3. Hurt
  4. Magnolia
  5. Too Much Ain't Enough
  6. I Need to Know
  7. Listen to Her Heart
  8. No Second Thoughts
  9. Restless
  10. Baby's a Rock 'N' Roller

LP4: Live From the Record Plant 1977

  1. Pre-Show
  2. Surrender
  3. Jaguar and Thunderbird
  4. Band Intros
  5. American Girl
  6. Al Kooper, Denny Cordell Intro
  7. Fooled Again
  8. Luna
  9. How We Doin' on Tape?
  10. Listen to Her Heart
  11. I Need to Know
  12. Strangered in the Night
  13. Dog on the Run
  14. (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66

LP5: The Cut Out Bin

  1. Save Me
  2. Making Some Noise
  3. The Ballad of Harry, Neil & Tillie
  4. Cry to Me
  5. Lost in Your Eyes

With the Americana Awards reunion and a lifetime honor arriving days before the release, Origins 1971-1978 positions the band's earliest recordings — including material never before issued — as the anchor of its half-century story.

Source: Pitchfork

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