Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Hard Promises
(MCA Records 1981 MCF3098)
Matrix No’s: A2/B2 – UK Pressing
Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
Poster Booklet in Nr MINT condition
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are a few light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer. He was best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but was also a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, and his early band Mudcrutch.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were an American rock band formed in Gainesville, Florida, in 1976. The band originally comprised lead singer and rhythm guitarist Tom Petty, lead guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench, drummer Stan Lynchand bassist Ron Blair. In 1982, Blair, weary of the touring lifestyle, departed the band. His replacement, Howie Epstein, remained with the band for the next two decades. In 1991, Scott Thurston joined the band as a multi-instrumentalist, primarily on rhythm guitar and secondary keyboard. In 1994, Steve Ferrone replaced Lynch on drums. Blair returned to the Heartbreakers in 2002, the year before Epstein’s death. The band had a long string of hit singles, including “Breakdown”, “American Girl” (both 1976), “Refugee” (1979), “The Waiting” (1981), “Learning to Fly” (1991), and “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” (1993), among many others, that stretched over several decades of work.
Hard Promises is the fourth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released on May 5, 1981 on Backstreet Records.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Tom Petty, except where noted.
| Side one | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | “The Waiting” | 3:58 | |
| 2. | “A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me)” | Petty, Mike Campbell | 4:22 |
| 3. | “Nightwatchman” | Petty, Campbell | 3:59 |
| 4. | “Something Big” | 4:44 | |
| 5. | “Kings Road” | 3:27 | |
| Side two | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 6. | “Letting You Go” | 3:24 | |
| 7. | “A Thing About You” | 3:33 | |
| 8. | “Insider” | 4:23 | |
| 9. | “The Criminal Kind” | 4:00 | |
| 10. | “You Can Still Change Your Mind” | Petty, Campbell | 4:15 |
| Total length: | 39:33 | ||
Personnel
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
- Tom Petty – lead and backing vocals, guitar (acoustic, electric, 12-string, bass on “Something Big”), electric piano on “Something Big”
- Mike Campbell – guitars (acoustic, electric, 12-string, bass), auto-harp, accordion, harmonium
- Benmont Tench – organ, piano, backing vocals
- Ron Blair – bass guitar
- Stan Lynch – drums, backing vocals
Additional musicians
- Stevie Nicks – backing vocals on “Insider” and “You Can Still Change Your Mind”
- Lori Nicks – backing vocals on “Insider”
- Sharon Celani – backing vocals on “You Can Still Change Your Mind”
- Donald “Duck” Dunn – bass guitar on “A Woman in Love”
- Phil Jones – percussion
- Alan “Bugs” Weidel – piano on “Nightwatchman”
Production
- Brad Gilderman – assistant engineer
- Jimmy Iovine – producer
- Tom Petty – producer
- Tori Swenson – assistant engineer
- Shelly Yakus – engineer
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