Topic: New Tab Postings
The 2010 album Mojo marked the end of an eight year hiatus for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The record's debut at #2 on the Billboard 200 CD listing served as a warm welcome back for the band.
It was Petty's intent to do a blues-based "jam"-style record. As such, he entered the project bringing only loose outlines of songs, allowing the songs to take shape during the recording sessions. In keeping with the informal feel, the album was recorded live off the floor at The Clubhouse, the band's Los Angeles rehearsal space.
"I Should Have Known It" was one of the tracks released as a single. One music reviewer summed up the song this way: "'I Should Have Known It'...is a gritty guitar romp that weaves Petty's raspy wail within the boggy sounds of bottleneck slides and a dense rhythm. The song eventually runs head first into a wildly entertaining solo that eventually reincorporates the entire band; the song is truly one of the best stompers from the Heartbreakers in a long time." (culturebully.com/tom-petty-heartbreakers-mojo-album-review)
The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/vartab/pettytom-ishouldhaveknownit.txt
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_iBKacXIA4
Cuts Like A Knife (1983), Bryan Adams' third studio album, was the release that brought him breakthrough success in North America. While that success didn't come quite as quickly elsewhere, the album did eventually gain a foothold in overseas markets, as well. The album went platinum in the US, and triple platinum in Canada, charting at #8 in both countries.
Snowy enough for ya?
Well, I suppose it all depends on where you are, but where I am we have plenty of it, and I'm sure we'll be getting more. (How did you like that thunder and lightning mixed into the blizzard?) So regardless of what the groundhogs said yesterday about an early Spring, one thing we can say for sure. For now, it's still winter time.




Sometimes things happen in weird ways. Most people probably think I did a chord chart of a Stealers Wheel song to commemorate the recent passing away of Gerry Rafferty. Actually, "Star" was a song I had wanted to do a chord chart of for a long time. To start the new year, I had about three different songs I was considering as the first chord chart entry for the year. I opted for "Star". So Tuesday night (Jan. 4) I sat down with my guitar and worked it out. It went fairly quickly. After typing it up on the computer, I visited a site or two to gather some information to make a blog post to go along with the chord chart posting. It was only then -- after having done the chord chart -- that I learned Gerry Rafferty had passed away that very day. It was a total coincidence that I had decided to work out that song on that day.
"Star" is from the band's 1973 album Ferguslie Park, and was written by Joe Egan, the other half of the duo that was the core of Stealers Wheel.
2011

In November of 1984, Queen released the holiday single "Thank God It's Christmas". The song was released independent of any Queen album, with the B-side consisting of two songs from The Works, the band's album release from earlier that year. "Thank God It's Christmas" later appeared on the Queen album Greatest Hits III.