Tom Petty

The week of November 22nd Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and Reprise Records will release The Live Anthology, a multiple-disc set of recordings drawn from thirty years of live performances. The collection brings together material from 1978-2007 culled from hundreds of hours of live c...

 Canada Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers “Runnin' Down a Dream” (1989) The perfect tune when you are whistling across the top of Pennask Summit on the Okanagan Connector, the car in cruise control set at five klicks above the speed limit. What a rebel. ...

 NY younger Harrison, now making music with his band theNewNo2, has gotten to learn from some of the true greats, including when the elder Harrison played was alongside Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty as part of the Traveling Wilburys. ...

 Canada Elsewhere, the 68-year-old icon nails the smoky vibe of "Forgetful Heart" with guitarist Mike Campbell (Tom Petty) sitting in and then rocks the lusty swagger of "Jolene" (not the Dolly Parton song). Without a doubt, the best number is the last one on ...

“Jolene” has some great guitar playing from both Dylan and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. “This Dream of You” shows a softer edge of Dylan's ravaged wizened voice. The combination of guitar, accordion, banjo and mandolin also add to ...

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 AZ I just watched the Traveling Wilburys Movie short on Sundance! Only George could have accidentally created a Rock Group that included: Bob Dylan,Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Jim Keltner and of course the Best songwriter of the Beatles! ...

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY joined GEORGE HARRISON's widow OLIVIA and the late star's son DHANI to unveil his former BEATLES bandmate's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday (14Apr09). Harrison's star - the city's 2,382nd sidewalk plaque - was revealed in front of the Capitol Records buil...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hundreds of George Harrison's biggest fans and best friends, including Paul McCartney and Tom Petty, turned out Tuesday to see a posthumous star for the quiet Beatle unveiled during a raucous celebration on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Fellow former Beatle McCartney st...

JamBase As luck would have it, Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell were both in the area and stopped by to sit in with Cale the second night of his McCabe’s run. The Heartbreakers joined Cale for the second half of his set, including “Crazy ... JJ Cale Welcomes Petty JamBase

 NY Add another to that list as 150 lucky fans on Saturday night got, what the evening's performer JJ Cale called, "a real big treat" in the form of Tom Petty and Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers. Cale, the veteran Oklahoma singer/songwriter, ...

The next song was a hot track during the band's tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who at the time were superstar rockers while the Replacements were the little underground engine that could, then didn't. Petty famously plagiarized the line ...

PR-inside.com) ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA and TRAVELING WILBURYS star JEFF LYNNE is to be awarded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' (ASCAP) 2009 Golden Note honour. The revered Brit, who has also produced the Beatles, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, among others, wil...

 UK Oh gosh, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Id say The Beach Boys, but they’re not really knocking around much these days… oh and the Chilli Peppers or something along those lines. If you could only listen to one CD for the rest of your life, ...

By By JON PARELES BOB DYLAN and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers gave an oddly paced, willful concert Tuesday at Madison Square Garden. The joint tour, in which Mr. Petty and his band accompany Mr. Dylan and play two 20-minute segments on their own, opened its three-night stand in New York with a set that ran nea...

Yeah, Borat 2 subscription), IN Read this column next week for a review of “Running Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,” the 238-minute documentary on Petty. Times-Mail Assistant Managing Editor Mike Ricketts welcomes comments at 277-7255 or by e-mail at miker@tmnews.com.

 OK ◊“Runnin’ Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” (6:45 am on Sundance): Peter Bogdanovich directed this film, which recently won the Grammy Award for best long form music video. It focuses on 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Tom Petty ...

 United States Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers). The end solo on "American Girl" is as fast it gets for Campbell, who writes the music behind Petty's hits. His sleepy riffs on songs such as "Breakdown" and "I Won't Back Down" hang in the air like drunk ...

Pop rock but it's like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers meets The Replacements. We keep it dirty with a little throwback. It's kinda retro. Who are some of your musical influences? Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Nirvana, Iggy Pop and the Stooges and ...

 UK I must admit though, I do find myself loving the cover of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Runnin’ Down A Dream. I’ma fan of the original and although covers can either be hit or miss with most music fans, I think this one is pretty swish, ...

By fatboymuscleman I said in an earlier post that Joe Flanigan who plays John Sheppard on Stargate Atlantis, mentioned the song Solitary Man by Johnny Cash and Tom Petty in an interview. He actually mentioned an old duet with Bob Dillon and Johnny Cash called Girl from North Country.

By Cliff Tom Petty and his fellow Heartbreakers came up with this irritatingly ambiguous classic tune, which is both a heartbreaking goodbye to your one great love and a cleverly encrypted marijuana hymn. I wonder why no one calls their daughters Mary Jane anymore these days…

By joshlobley This may not be the best version of this song from the tour but I enjoyed Dylan raving on about the empty seats to his right. He said he wouldn’t sing until the people sat in the seats. Pretty funny. Being a huge Self Portrait fan I had to post this. I love the version of this song on that album.

By The New Rockstar Philosophy After watching the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers documentary/biography, Running Down a Dream, I found myself digging through a lot of his material…on YouTube. Subscribe to The New Rockstar Philosophy by Email After watching the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers documentary/bio...

By Chris Gray It may come as a great shock to regular readers that Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Damn the Torpedoes has been in Rocks Off's heavy rotation lately. Or maybe it won't. Either way, the entire alb... Continue reading "Can't Get It Out of My Head: "Shadow of a Doubt"" >

By twoleftfeet Additional performances by Simon & Garfunkel, John Denver & the Muppets, Elvis, Andy Williams, The White Stripes, Britney Spears, Frank Sinatra, The Three Tenors, Olivia Newton John, Bing Crosby, Tom Waits, Jewel, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty, Mariah Carey, Na...

 OH - Nov 26, 2008 His late 1980’s work as a member of The Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty, brought him a new generation of fans. ...

By Jack Kathleen Edwards is a Canadian singer-songwriter who claims her primary influences are Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty. She spent some of her youth in Korea and Switzerland and she studied classical violin for twelve years. Do you have a favorite song from the new album?

By Whitney Self As the story goes, back in 2002, Tim McGraw was looking for a song with a Tom Petty kind of feel. Hearing the news, well-known songwriters Tony Martin, Mark Nesler and Tom Shapiro went to work and created the song, “You Look Good in My Shirt.”  However, McGraw decided to pass on the song, and it w...

By SoulBoogieAlex(noreply@blogger.com) Jim McGuinn, better known as Roger was one of the big guest stars during this tour. But I'll wager that when he stepped on stage in Orlando more than a few eyebrows were raised. As Roger once confided to Tom Petty, when he was helping him produce one of his solo albums "Back from Rio," McGuinn reg...

By bandweblogs On October 13, 2008 (UK), Sony BMG & Orbison Records are proud to release The Soul Of Rock And Roll, the long-awaited definitive 4 CD box set of 107 seminal recordings including demos, live recordings and 12 previously unreleased cuts spanning the entire career of the profoundly inf...

By Gordon Winslow Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch Tom Petty reunites his original band with stellar results.  “Scare Easy” is the killer single that Tom manages to put on every album, but the whole thing is great. Paul Westerberg - 49:00 “Plan to Marry” by Lucinda Williams

By Chris Molanphy Over on the digital sales chart—where old tracks are allowed to appear alongside currents—the highest Petty charter is "Free Fallin'," which ends the week at No. 9. But if you combine its 63,000 downloads with the sales for "I Won't Back Down" (No. 34, 28,000), "American Girl" (No. 45, 25,000...

By lefty@dopefiend.co.uk Pat Traverse - Black Betty; Rush - Best that I can; Frank Caliendo - Superfriends; Steve Miller - The Joker; The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches; Tom Rhodes - The Lonliest Joint; El Pus - Monday Morning; Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song; Pepper - Your Face; Hen...

By Andy Greene “America Thanks” with Florida A&M University. IV V Florida A&M Band. VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXIX XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIV XXXV XXXVI U2 XXXVII XXXIX Paul McCartney XL XLI Prince XLII Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

By bh founding fathers of rock 'n' roll (Jerry Lee Lewis) and arguably the most get used to seeing such names as Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Phish, R.E.M., be remembered as fondly as, say, 1988 (Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia), 1998 (Phish, highlighted by a fine cover of Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'."

Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: I doubt director Peter Bogdanovich is going to make any converts with this four-hour-long documentary about Petty's three-decades-plus of rock 'n' roll. But if you're a Petty fan, it's a must, and if you've fallen away from Petty as I...

By Josh Hathaway The Traveling Wilburys is such a preposterously huge idea that it would have to be real because no one would ever really imagine it. Think about it just for a second: a Beatle, Dylan, Orbison, and Petty? That's four guys in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for work they did on their own, and I've no...

By El Bicho In October 1990, the band returned as a quartet with Vol. 3. Vol 2 is considered to be Tom Petty’s solo album, Full Moon Fever, which featured everyone in the band except for Dylan. Possibly in acknowledgment of the new dynamic they would have, new Wilbury names were chosen to signify they were...

By Glen Boyd When The Traveling Wilburys' debut album came around the first time in the eighties, I all but ignored it. Not that the idea of people like George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty getting together for an all-star dream jam wasn't one to salivate over, but for me, the spoiler fa...

By Chris Beaumont For those of you who may not be familiar with them, the band is comprised of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. A formidable line-up by any measure, even if they all weren't on their A games during the period twenty years ago that gave rise to the Wilburys.

By Nik Dirga The combination of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne made for one of the finest "supergroups" of all time. Their first album, The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, and to a lesser extent, their second, teasingly labeled Vol. 3, represent a shining high point in each o...

By Tom Johnson Tom Petty - Highway Companion Deluxe Edition: Speaking of "deluxe editions" ... Oh, Tom, there was a time when you threw a fit at the record label wanting to make 1981's Hard Promises the first record to be priced at a new, higher price point (of $9.98 - can you imagine?) and so you threatened to re...

By Kim Priestap Over late-night beers and joints, they dubbed themselves the Traveling Wilburys and released the fruits of their labors on a 1988 album titled "Traveling Wilburys Volume 1." Over late-night beers and joints, they dubbed themselves the Traveling Wilburys and released the fruits of the...

By Mark Saleski Another huge week. Springsteen. McCartney. Muddy Waters. Los Lobos. Tom Petty. A hip-top tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd. The concept is just so wrong that I just can't help myself. Highway Companion (Deluxe Edition) - Tom Petty - (Warner Bros.)/Rock

By Josh Hathaway With this week's surprise announcement that Bob Dylan will be a guest judge on next week's "all-folk music edition" of American Idol, I thought it might be a good time to bone up on my Dylan in preparation for that certain to be fun episode. Patti Smith does a really good cover of this song on he...

By Josh Hathaway The big news for this week? That idiot DJRadiohead has stopped running this feature and has turned it over to me. There are a few of you who will get that joke. The rest of you would do best to keep reading forward, as there are some great entries in this week's Listening Room.Speaking of great ent...

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By Josh Hathaway Ken Edwards (Gaming Editor): "The Golden Rose" from Highway Companion by Tom Petty Highway Companion as a whole reminds me of older Petty, and that is just fine with me. The instrumentation is so warm and rich, a stark contrast to his last record with The Hearbreakers - which makes this albu...