The Tom Petty Estate has officially unveiled Origins 1971-1978, a comprehensive box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legendary rocker’s early career. Available now via UMe, the collection traces Petty’s evolution from his Florida roots through the white-hot ’70s era.
Alongside the box set, a new music video has been released for a newly mixed version of “Depot Street,” originally issued as Mudcrutch’s debut single in 1975. Co-directed by actors and longtime fans Luke Wilson and Tim Baltz, the video stars recent Emmy winner Stephen Root and features archival footage of Petty alongside Mudcrutch bandmates Tom Leadon, Randall Marsh, and Mike Campbell.
Centerpiece Album Documents Tom Petty Becoming Tom Petty
“Depot Street” is featured on No Sleep Til L.A., a curated 12-track album serving as the collection’s centerpiece. The record documents Tom Petty becoming Tom Petty, tracking his search for the right band from his 1971 studio sessions at Miami’s Criteria Studios to Tulsa and eventually Los Angeles. The album includes seven previously unreleased tracks and five new hi-res mixes. No Sleep Til L.A. is also sold separately on CD and LP in a limited-edition “Galaxy” color variant, with a Zoetrope edition scheduled for November 20.
The Origins 1971-1978 release comes in 5LP and 4CD box set configurations, each including Blu-ray and DVD discs. The vinyl editions include an 88-page fanzine with liner notes by David Fricke and Bud Scoppa, track-by-track annotations, archival photos, polaroids, and postcards.
Producer Ryan Ulyate Remixes Early Albums from Original Tapes
The box set features fresh takes on the band’s 1976 self-titled debut and its 1978 follow-up, You’re Gonna Get It!. Every track on both albums has been newly remixed from original multitrack tapes by producer and engineer Ryan Ulyate, with eight extended tracks included—such as “Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It),” “American Girl,” and “Breakdown”—alongside the unreleased track “Parade of Loons.”
The box set release follows other recent 50th anniversary events, including the opening of the Tom Petty Collection at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York and Los Angeles, and a September appearance where Petty and the Heartbreakers received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Americana Awards.
To mark the release of the ‘Origins 1971-1978’ box set, a music video for a new mix of “Depot Street,” originally released as Mudcrutch’s debut single in 1975, is out now. Co-directed by actors and longtime Tom Petty fans Luke Wilson and Tim Baltz, the video weaves archival… pic.twitter.com/ZtpPSkyTqH
