There are some things that never change. You can only change the way you make them. This way, you may give them a new interest, a new flame and a new meaning. It is as if making something a different way gives you a new creative rush. When this happens to artists of a big caliber then, at times, amazing things can happen. Only because everybody has a soul, however just a select few can take that soul out and serve it to the people as a gourmet dish.

But what is soul, really, to offer it around. Well, the soul, the essence of an artist, a creator is what people used to call “mojo” and what they used to offer in abundance to whoever was looking for it. This “mojo” is a vital part of the conscious artist’s inner search and many times his demise. “Mojo” is dangerous right because it is unique and strictly personal and it revelation is intoxicating both to the artist and his audience.

Either you have the “mojo” or you don’t. You cannot create it, you cannot inherit it, you cannot transfer it. And when you have it you emit it. But you have to look for it. Tom Petty looked for it ages ago. And he found it. And he emits it constantly, like a beacon and he does it again today with this new album. Going back to the beginning, he does it in  a way that he has never one before.

Petty gathered his co-travelers, the Heartbreakers and he put them in a studio. So far so good. What they did this time, though, is to enter the studio “empty”. No demos, no ideas, no preparation, no suggestions. Just six players, one facing the other, in a creative circle jamming on instant music ideas. One on top of the other, one around another, one sound from within another and music finds its own way, its own path to excellence, independent, free and magical. Nothing new came out of this, nothing innovative and nothing revolutionary. Never… Just love, devotion, rejoicing… Just Mojo…