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highplainsdem

(48,974 posts)
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 08:36 PM Feb 2022

"Long Way" - the new single from Eddie Vedder's album Earthling - sounds a lot like Tom Petty

and even has Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers playing organ.

Studio version






and live at the Beacon Theater 2/4/22:






From Rolling Stone's album review:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/eddie-vedder-earthling-review-1295457/

For any other artist, “Long Way” would sound like Tom Petty cosplay with its lush acoustic chords and gentle chorus, nasally dragging out the word “freeeeeway” — the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench even plays organ on the song — but Vedder’s voice, with its rugged, lived-in weariness, makes it his own.




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