Album · Tom Petty
Echo by Tom Petty
Echo is an album by Tom Petty, released in 1999. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Room At The Top”, on 1 list with a best position of #942.
Echo, the tenth studio album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, came out on Warner Bros. in April 1999, with Petty, Rick Rubin and Mike Campbell sharing the production, and it finds a band that had been at this since 1976 digging into rawer, moodier territory. "Room at the Top" broods, "Free Girl Now" and "Swingin'" kick up the heartland dust, and Campbell steps up to sing "I Don't Wanna Fight", the only time a Heartbreaker other than Petty took a lead vocal on one of their albums.
It closed some chapters. It was the band's last record with Rubin, and the last with bassist Howie Epstein, who never showed up for the cover shoot, so Petty went ahead without him; Epstein died in 2003. Steve Ferrone got his first credit as a full member on drums. And "Free Girl Now" went up as a free MP3, spooking Warner Bros. into yanking it after two days, by which point Napster had spread it anyway.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Echo on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Room At The Top | 1 | #942 | – | 2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.