I’ll go further, reubent. King Of America is my favorite of EC’s (in the same way that Full Moon Fever is my favorite Petty album). Nice full, warm acoustic rhythm guitar parts (giving it an Everly Brothers sound), a more relaxed, "Southern" feel than The Attractions provide him with (they have that somewhat rushed, "trying too hard" feel common to British bands). A lot of great American musicians play on the album: the incredible Jerry Scheff on bass, Earl Palmer, Jim Keltner, Ron Tutt, and Mickey Curry (all great) on drums, James Burton and T-Bone Wolk on guitar. Wow! And T Bone Burnett’s production is much better than that of Nick Lowe and others on EC’s other albums (Jeff Lynne's production on Petty's FMF is vastly superior to that of Petty's other albums). I have the U.K. F-Beat label pressing, which sounds great. Some of the now-out-of-print CD versions of the album contain bonus tracks.
