Album · 1999
Echo
by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Echo is an album by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, released in 1999 on Reprise Records, with 32 tracks.
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Album · 1999
by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Echo is an album by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, released in 1999 on Reprise Records, with 32 tracks.
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32 tracks · 137 min
Echo is the 10th studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. First released in April 1999, the album reached #10 on the Billboard 200 aided by the singles "Free Girl Now," "Swingin'" and "Room At The Top," which hit #5, #17 and #19 respectively on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks in 1999. The album was the band's last collaboration with producer Rick Rubin, and was also the last to feature contributions from longtime bassist/vocalist Howie Epstein, who died of a heroin overdose in 2003. Echo was certified Gold (500,000 copies sold) by the RIAA in July 1999, only three months after it was released. Echo is the only Heartbreakers' album to contain a lead vocal from another member of the band: Mike Campbell on "I Don't Wanna Fight." An outtake entitled "Sweet William" appeared as the B-side (or second song) on the "Room at the Top" CD single. Only a handful of songs were played on the band's tour that year, and none have been played since 2001. The record was largely written during a period when Petty was going through a painful divorce (influencing the lyrics of songs such as "Lonesome Sundown" and the title track), and Petty has cited that as the reason for his preference not…