Mojo by Tom Petty

Mojo, the twelfth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, came out on Reprise on June 15, 2010, their first together in eight years, and it's the sound of an arena band playing like a bar band, digging deep into the blues. Petty produced it with lead guitarist Mike Campbell, and Campbell's guitar gets plenty of room to growl and wander.

It was a homecoming for bassist Ron Blair too, playing on a full Heartbreakers album for the first time since Hard Promises in 1981, with Benmont Tench on keyboards, Steve Ferrone on drums and Scott Thurston rounding out the crew. "First Flash of Freedom" stretches out and lets the band breathe. Mojo debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 with 125,000 copies sold in its first week, and an expanded Extra Mojo edition followed in 2023.

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