Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Surrender - Non-Album Tracks (1976-1979)

This is a stray tracks album covering the first years of Tom P.'s solo career. In my opinion, up until his "Full Moon Fever" album in 1989, I consider his albums very hit or miss: some great songs, but also some skippable songs. (I think his albums get a lot more solid after that.) So I'm somewhat surprised that a lot of his songs that didn't get released at all at the time are as good as they are. 

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

This album is a case in point. With the exception of the solid classic 1979 "Damn the Torpedoes" album, I think this is as good as most of his other albums from that era. It's strange that songs like "Dog on the Run" and "Surrender" weren't put on albums when he liked to play them frequently in concert. (By the way, "Dog on the Run" is not to be confused with a song of his released on the 1985 album "Southern Accents" called "Dogs on the Run.") Four of the songs here came out at the time as B-sides, but the eight others did not, and five of those are still officially unreleased in any form.

Some of the unreleased songs here I've seen on bootlegs as Mudcrutch songs, his early band. But they're not. Probably the confusion is that some of them were Mudcrutch songs, but then when he was looking for album material for his second and third albums, he went back to some of those same songs for renewed consideration. That's the case, for example, with the classic hit "Don't Do Me like That." In a similar way, at least the song here "Long Way from Home" was recorded by both P. and Mudcrutch and then P. and the Heartbreakers. This is the Heartbreakers version. That probably the case with some of the others. I suspect some of these good songs were rejected at the time just because they were old in the mind of P. and his band member at the time.

By the way, P. has also done many interesting cover versions over the years. I plan on making an entire separate series of those. I'm two covers here, "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Somethin' Else" because they were done in the studio with the thought of being album tracks. Whereas my series of his covers will focus entirely on concert performances.

This album is 43 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/A4ViiRzw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/spFnzaRregDPc9Y/file

I made the cover using a photo of P. and the Heartbreakers in 1977.