RIP Tom Petty

this was my birthday gift, thank you so much <3

Watch "Nightbird"!

Yeah, holy shit what a performance that is.

seriously, thank you for posting that performance -- (A) what a bunch of weirdos (B) that guy who shows up to dance aggressively with Stevie, what is that?!

i guess he is there to demonstrate what it means to "stand back!"

damn waddy catching strays! leave waddy alone!!!!

Did Flip Wilson host SNL?!?!

Yes, in 1983: https://www.onesnladay.com/2019/02/09/december-10-1983-flip-wilson-stevie-nicks-s9-e8/

Huh, I think I put it at 1981, probably because that's when the video puts it, but yeah, 1983!

it really was fortuitous that Petty stumbled across both Campbell and Tench so early on — he lucked out!

― tylerw, Thursday, September 28, 2023

"he got lucky" was RIGHT THERE

was it Tench who said Tom Petty's greatest strength as a musician was talking people out of going to college? (Campbell wasn't headed that way; Tench very much was and his family was not thrilled at the time)

lmao that is kinda true

Headed back down south
Gonna see my daddy's mistress
Gonna buy back her forgiveness
Pay off every witness

One more time down south
Sell the family headstones
Drag a bag of dry bones
Make good on my back loans

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Sleep late down south
Look up my former mentors
Live off Yankee winters
Be a landlord and a renter

Create myself down south
Impress all the women
Pretend I'm Samuel Clemens
Wear seersucker and white linens

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Spanish moss down south
Find the heroes of my childhood
Who now can do me no good
Carve their names in dogwood

Chase a ghost down south
Spirits cross the dead fields
Mosquitoes hit the windshield
All documents remain sealed

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

I'll give you all I have
And a little more

i love petty. highway companion is so good.

did you guys do a petty listening thread? alfred? VegGrrl? i would totally participate in that. group + solo.

i don’t think we ever did a listening thread that I know of (unless i missed it)

group + solo + mudcrutch

petty listening thread

yes please!

I'm not a fully paid-up member of the church of Dolly Parton, but this (from a Petty tribute album) is really fucking good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2qvHyFVm20

beautiful

looking forward to this album, lotta good ppl!!

“Petty Country” Track List:

“I Should Have Known It” by Chris Stapleton
“Wildflowers” by Thomas Rhett
“Runnin’ Down A Dream” by Luke Combs
“Southern Accents” by Dolly Parton
“Here Comes My Girl” by Justin Moore
“American Girl” by Dierks Bentley
“Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” by Lady A
“I Forgive It All” by Jamey Johnson
“I Won’t Back Down” by Brothers Osborne
“Refugee” by Wynonna Judd & Lainey Wilson
“Angel Dream No. 2” by Willie Nelson & Lukas Nelson
“Learning To Fly” by Eli Young Band
“Breakdown” by Ryan Hurd feat. Carly Pearce
“Yer So Bad” by Steve Earle
“Ways To Be Wicked” by Margo Price feat. Mike Campbell
“Mary Jane’s Last Dance” by Midland
“Free Fallin’” by The Cadillac Three feat. Breland
“I Need To Know” by Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives
“Don’t Come Around Here No More” by Rhiannon Giddens feat. Silkroad Ensemble and Benmont Tench
“You Wreck Me (Live)” by George Strait

Honestly, the only other things I want to hear from that list are Jamey Johnson and George Strait. It's a real tragedy what happened to Jamey Johnson (short version: he fell, hit his head, and can't write songs anymore). I kinda like Midland but I don't like "Mary Jane's Last Dance."

fuck i didn’t know that about Jamey Johnson, such a great songwriter. i love his albums!

Seeing that Steve Earle is doing’ Yer So Bad’, I have to wonder if is in a bluegrass style?

Not enough women tbh

margo price & mike campell have played together quite a bit, looking forward to hearing their cover

Is there a tribute album Margo *isn't* on? Petty, Sleater-Kinney, Roky...

I mean, she's cool and all, but it's just funny that she's on so many of these.

Good manager?

...and good taste. She's also on the Billy Joe Shaver and Bobbie Gentry/Delta Sweete tributes.

Wow didn’t know petty wrote “ways to be wicked”. Did he put it out before the lone justice version?

At least Phoebe Bridgers is not on this. Surprised Isbell isn't.

There's some Luke Combs song my daughter plays that is just the dumbest, stupidest song ever, like he didn't have the courage of his convictions to go full "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk."

Johnny Cash did a great "Southern Accents," and of course Petty and crew are all over those albums.

Lou Barlow covered Hope You Never on his podcast last week, it sounds exactly like one of his own songs from around 20 years ago

Silkworm did a cool version of “Insider” on a 90s Petty tribute 90s. It’s worth checking out.

Johnny Cash did a great "Southern Accents," and of course Petty and crew are all over those albums.

Cash told Petty that he felt that "Southern Accents" was a better anthem than "Dixie," and Petty replied that he couldn't really believe that, but then Cash told him that it was true because "Dixie" was a terrible song.

lol

Damn never knew that about Jamey Johnson

Wow didn’t know petty wrote “ways to be wicked”. Did he put it out before the lone justice version?

The Petty version didn't come out until his box set in the mid-'90s.

adding my name to the list of those who didn't know that about jamey johnson. damn damn damn.

I assume Jimmy Iovine was the connection with Lone Justice. Campbell actually plays on the Lone Justice track, and Benmont Tench is on two other songs on the album.

Tench and Maria McKee dated for a spell too.

Silkworm did a cool version of “Insider” on a 90s Petty tribute 90s. It’s worth checking out.

Dolly is so great on this.

It's a really good version, much better than what I've heard from her "rock" album. As a resident of the South, albeit one without a Southern accent, I have mixed feelings about the "I'm not ashamed" coda. I know how Dolly means it, or how I think she means, as an anti-elitist statement. I'm just not sure that "Southern pride" more broadly is what the world needs now.