Tom Petty

 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 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'."

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 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 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...

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...