Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ 1982 “Long After Dark” album probably doesn’t count as one of the band’s “tentpole albums,” in terms of being one of their biggest blockbusters, or a seismic shift in direction — but it’s also a record that probably no real fan would want to do without. Tom Petty in so-called maintenance mode beats almost anyone else reinventing the wheel. And the sound of him writing and recording great rock songs on the crest of his band’s initial wave of success is, album title notwithstanding, a sunny place to revisit.
To that end, there’s a new deluxe reissue of “Long After Dark” that contains a
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