For all the great heartland rock songs in history, Tom Petty was able to pump them out faster than his record company could ...

Tom Petty’s 1993 Greatest Hits compilation may have been a fan-pleasing collection of prime cuts, but as far as Petty was concerned it was a contract breaker and nothing more. Eager to leave MCA ...

Image by Takahiro Kyono from Tokyo, Japan - Tom Petty & Steve Ferrone, CC BY 2.0 As we prepare for The Tom Petty 6th annual tribute show at Skipper’s Smokehouse on October 4th, let’s dive into the ...

Cultivating just the right environment for the studio is not always an easy task, considering all the external distractions, sicknesses, and general mindlessness that can cause a recording session to ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Two new versions of Tom Petty classics—Eddie Vedder’s “Room at the Top” and Larkin ...

There is and will always be something so quintessentially American about Tom Petty. His voice just sounds like amber waves of grain. For the Gainesville, Florida-born rocker, music was in his DNA. He ...

Tom Petty was a seasoned veteran of songwriting, but this classic tune almost had a completely different chorus if not for ...

11 Years Ago, Tom Petty Hit a Milestone No One Saw Coming originally appeared on Parade. It’s tough to wrap your head around the fact that Tom Petty died nearly eight years ago. His songs bridged ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. If you've been watching the Apple TV+ series "Bad Monkey," you've heard some great covers of Tom Petty songs, like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WON'T BACK DOWN ...

Had he not died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017, Tom Petty, the prolific guitar rocker whose radio hits include “Refugee,” “American Girl,” and “You Got Lucky,” would be celebrating his 74th ...