Podcast: The Tom Petty Project

oin Kev Brown as he digs into Tom Petty’s catalogue, starting with the first track from the debut Heartbreakers album, all the way through to the final song from Mudcrutch 2. Along the way, there will be special episodes dedicated to outtakes, b-sides, and other Tom Petty related material. This podcast is in no way affiliated with the Tom Petty estate and all rights to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch, Stevie Nicks, and the Travelling Wilbury’s are the property of their respective rights holders.

Bad Monkey + Petty Country

John and I got together to discuss the Petty Country and Bad Monkey Soundtrack releases and built a 16 track playlist that gives you a good idea of what to expect from each disc. We discussed what makes a good cover version, which contemporay artists are doing the best job of interpereting Tom’s work and…

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California

There’s a quality to this song that I’ve only really experienced once before. It makes me homesick for a place I’ve never lived in. The other time this has happened to me was, coincidentally, also California. If any of you are Van Halen fans or even just rock n roll fans with an interest in…

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Supernatural Radio

This one begins with piano as the main melodic focus, with Benmont Tench playing a lounge player style lick over top of a sumptuously dark and foreboding rhythm section. The drums are dry and present and Howie Epstein’s bass guitar adds the bottom end colour to a scene that feels like a dimly lit hotel…

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Asshole

Beck’s Asshole is quite tender in places with a certain rustic charm and it’s not something you’d expect a middle aged rocker to want to explore. But when you really delve into it and rummage around in there, you discover its hidden depths and while at first it can come across as unappealing, a close…

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Hope You Never

Hope You Never is a fairly dark, bleak cut from a difficult album for Tom. It fits the timbre of the movie in places and you can see why it was chosen as one of the songs to transfer over to this release. The production is, as always, absolutely superb. The parts are all expertly…

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Angel Dream

“I dreamed you, I saw your face. Caught my lifeline, went drifting through space”. What an incredible way to say “I fell in love with you the moment I saw you and my life would never be the same again”. I was talking with my pal Corey on our show The Ultimate Catalogue Clash about…

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2024 In Review + Favourite Albums

I wanted to say a quick (well, not that quick!) goodbye to 2024 before kicking off the new year and figured I’d follow the lead of a great many music podcasters by telling you about some of the albums that I discovered this year that I’ve been enjoying a lot! I own 7 of the…

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Christmas All Over Again

It’s a wonderful little piece of fluffy Christmas fare. There’s no big message here, it’s just a nostalgic, whimsical throwback type song and I’m almost surprised that it wasn’t a co-write with Jeff Lynne because it has a bigger ELO feel to it than it does a Heartbreakers feel! And with the addition of all…

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Matt Jaffe (Gone Enough To Miss)

Change the Locks

First of all, Changed The Locks by Lucinda Williams is a fantastic song and her delivery of it is sublime and very intimate – a tone that is enhanced by the arrangement that is used on that recording. The Heartbreakers amp up the anger by speeding the track up slightly, making the guitar tones heavier,…

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