Spoon has revealed two Tom Petty covers, recorded earlier this year at the Catacomb in Austin, Texas. In the video above, Britt Daniel grooves through “Breakdown” from Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1976 debut album. They scale it back for Full Moon Fever‘s “A Face in the Crowd” (below), with Daniel …
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The world might suck right now, but thankfully the Tom Petty estate recently released an unearthed 1993 demo of “You Don’t Know How it Feels,” the first taste of the long-awaited Wildflowers archival project. Petty recorded the sparse, acoustic take at his home studio, providing a more intimate, slow-burner feel. …
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Tom Petty’s family decried Donald Trump’s use of “I Won’t Back Down” at his Tulsa rally Saturday, sending a cease-and-desist notice to the president’s campaign. “Trump was in no way authorized to use this song to further a campaign that leaves too many Americans and common sense behind,” Petty’s estate …
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Warren Zanes is the author ofPetty: The Biography. He first met the singer in 1986, when Zanes’ band, theDel Fuegos, opened for Petty and the Heartbreakers. [Find ‘Petty: The Biography’ Here] I was standing in my kitchen when I heard about Tom Petty’s death. The message came from a friend …
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The new Tom Petty box set An American Treasure won’t hit stores until September 28th, but his team is already thinking about future archival releases. Nothing is definite at the moment, but Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell tells Rolling Stone that the group hopes to release a live set commemorating their …
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On a rainy day earlier this summer, Aaron Lee Tasjan and Lilly Hiatt found themselves back home in Nashville, swapping harmonies during a poignant, folky cover of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ “Walls.” “This was a special day,” remembers Hiatt. “Aaron and I got together this past summer at John …
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