One Track Mind: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “U Get Me High” (2014)
The Heartbreakers offer plenty of edge, but what stands out is what’s not there this time.

The Heartbreakers offer plenty of edge, but what stands out is what’s not there this time.

This is one finger-licking, chin-wagging, cool-side-of-the-pillow triumph.

A synth-driven Psychedelic Furs song might not seem like a great cover idea. But it was.

Quirky musical details lift a new track from members of the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger.
Will Alestorm’s pirate metal schtick ever get old? Man, I hope not.
You have to wonder what the reaction to this music would be, without the expectations.

Frampton isn’t the superstar he once was, but his playing has never been better.

This gives me hope Uncle Nuge might just take the advice his album title offers.

A sense of familial connection runs just as deep as this song’s darker complexities.

In which Hiatt admits everything about the wonders, and the terrors, of love.