Take An Advance Listen To Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’ New Album, Mojo

Here. The album will be released June 15. Your Thoughts?

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Get Their Zeppelin On For New Song

A few weeks ago Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers revealed they would be releasing a new album called Mojo this spring.  Somewhat amazingly, this fulfilled the final of three major projects that Tom Petty had listed wanting to do four years ago.  At the time I was skeptical he would actually put together a reunion […]

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The Best 7 Minutes, 13 Seconds Of Tom Petty’s Career

I say this with no exaggeration: I have heard all the albums and hundreds of live concerts many many times and this performance of Refugee from his Take The Highway tour features the most perfect realization of one of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ most perfect songs. It has the fullest and most exciting and […]

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Happy Birthday Tom!!!

Tom Petty turns 59 today! My favorite song of all time as performed three years ago by my favorite band of all time: Interesting tidbit about the centrality of this song in his canon, while he has a number of major hits that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will nearly always play because people come […]

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Tom Petty On The Beatles

Tom Petty writes about the Beatles’ legendary Ed Sullivan appearance: I think the whole world was watching that night. It certainly felt that way – you just knew it, sitting in your living room, that everything around you was changing. It was like going from black-and-white to color. Really. I remember earlier that day, in […]

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Mark Goffeney—The Boy With The Incredible Feet

One of my favorite live renditions of Tom Petty’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”: Your Thoughts?

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New Tom Petty Live Anthology Coming Soon!!!

As a Tom Petty worshipper and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers bootleg collector with a couple hundred discs of his live material (and as a curator of his best material onto anthology discs for my own private use), I’m ecstatic to pass on the news of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ new anthology with 48 […]

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The First Live Petty Recording I Ever Fell Completely In Love With

From Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary concert. I love the song and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers just completely rock out on one of my two favorite renditions of it ever. My other is Bob Dylan’s own from April 16, 1996. That one ends with some unbelievable merging of harmonica with jamming guitars. But anyway, there’s […]

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Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison, and an unbelievable Prince on Guitar

This video is amazing. I’ve long loved the performance of this classic George Harrison song. It’s a symptom of my Pettycentric view of music that this is the version I actually am most familiar with. Anyway, I’d never seen the video and although I knew Prince was a part of the recording, I never quite […]

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers As Metaphor For The Excellent Nietzschean Soul

In reply to my review of Peter Bogdanovich’s film about Tom Petty Running Down a Dream , “Lizzie B” over at the Tom Petty message board points out an oversight in my review. She astutely observes: Something you didn’t touch on that really stood out to me in the film is Tom Petty’s shrewd sense […]

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Meet The “Petty Kid”

Mike Monelscachi is Tom Petty’s biggest teenaged fan.  Over on Tom’s messageboard (and in his high school he says) he’s known affectionately as “Petty Kid” (which, incidentally, I think would make an awesome band name for him).  He’s cutting a record and here are three of his songs.  I’m seriously impressed after all this time […]

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Peter Bogdanovich’s “Running Down A Dream”

[written October 24, 2007] One of the reasons that great art means so much to us is because we find ourselves reflected and expressed in it, even when it is other people’s creations. For a long while now, I have figured out the formula to really understanding my mind and my heart for anyone interested. […]

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What’s In A Name?

An article from the Desert Sun reports that Tom Petty bashed his album Echo, one of my favorites of his, with the following comment, He’s less enamored with 1999′s “Echo,” which opens with the grim “Room at the Top,” “one of the most depressing songs in rock history,” Petty says, grinning. “If anything will make […]

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“What’s In A Name?” or “Room At The Top—”of the Titanic?”

In a recent interview Tom Petty bashed one of my favorite of his albums http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006610200386 as reported in the following way… He’s less enamored with 1999′s “Echo,” which opens with the grim “Room at the Top,” “one of the most depressing songs in rock history,” Petty says, grinning. “If anything will make you want to […]

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Happy 56th Birthday Tom Petty

Your music is THE music.

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If THIS Is What It Takes To Get You To Sample Some Tom Petty, Thensobeit….

Mary Jane’s Last Dance played with feet only! Even if this is a fake, it shows more coordination in this guy’s feet than I can imagine having in mine to fake it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIOYLMnTt0s

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Down South Played Live!

On Tom’s current tour he has been reluctant to play many songs from his wonderful new album, “Highway Companion,” as he is sensitive to avoid alienating audiences with unfamiliar, new material to the point of underestimating his new songs’ ability to immediately grab audiences and their popularity on the sales charts already. People know the […]

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Happy Birthday To Benmont Tench—-

the amazingly talented piano/keyboard/organ player and back up singer of the Heartbreakers turns older today. Besides being an awesome influence on the band who flavors every song perfectly with the piano/keyboard/organ and who helped prevent the Heartbreakers in the 80s from turning to the disastrous synthetic means of music production by insisting on “real instruments” […]

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So you don’t get the Tom Petty fixation?

I recommend a few days with gonegator radio online at http://www.gonegator.com. This radio station plays Tom Petty’s music most of the time and intersperses them with songs from friends (including fellow Traveling Wilbury alumns like Bob Dylan and George Harrison and many more) and his idols and influences. The thing that people who only know […]

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Pickin’ on Petty

Heartbreaker: Pickin’ on Tom Petty, the bluegrass tribute to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is really an exceptional tribute that every TPATH fan should own. These recordings of classic TPATH songs do not simply reproduce them with a more countrified blue grass vocalist and a little countrified performance of the songs. Instead there is no […]

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“Indiana Town Story”

This is a story that three of us on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ official website have contributed to so far. The idea is that each contributor to the story compose their episode using lyrics to Tom Petty songs as much as possible. To the totally uninitiated, I imagine this might be esoteric and worth […]

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Runnin’ Down A Dream

one of my oldest favorite songs from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (TPATH) that unfortunately has become numb to me where I can’t really hear it lately anymore but rather find my mind drifting off by the end. Yet, I still cannot hear the opening riff and not have to slam my air drum stick […]

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