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- “It’ll All Work Out” Inspired by Petty’s brief separation from his wife, Jane, during the making of Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough), “It’ll All Work Out” is a sweetly effectual breakup song.
- “I Should Have Known It” “We’d record in one or two takes,” Petty said of 2010’s Mojo. “We couldn’t have made this album in the Eighties.” Mojo, which was recorded at the band’s Los Angeles rehearsal space, saw the Heartbreakers get back to the raw, impassioned vigor of their early work, minus any extraneous studio sweetening; “I Should Have Known It” has the garage-blues drive of classic Yardbirds or Led Zeppelin, with a grinding riff and a wailing vocal from Petty.
- “The Best of Everything” Southern Accents closes with a powerful ballad that Petty calls “one of the best songs I ever wrote.” He’d intended “The Best of Everything” for 1981’s Hard Promises, but held it and eventually gave it to Robbie Robertson, who added horns and enlisted his fellow Band alums Garth Hudson on keyboard and Richard Manuel on backing vocals.
- “A Higher Place” “It’s a nice hopeful lyric,” says Mike Campbell of the brightest-sounding song on Wildflowers. Petty sang all the harmonies, and Campbell garlanded the melody with swirling psychedelic guitar that recalls the Byrds and the Beatles.
- “American Girl” (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 1976) It didn’t even hit the Hot 100. “American Girl” was a flop when it was originally released, coming closest to scraping the U.S. charts in 1994 when a re-released peaked at No. 9 on Billboard‘s Bubbling Under chart.
- “Don’t Do Me Like That” (Damn the Torpedoes, 1979) Try to find a flaw in this song if you want, the investigation might take you long enough for Netflix to make a docuseries about it.
- “Learning to Fly” (Into the Great Wide Open, 1991) Petty’s own “Solsbury Hill,” with a knockout combination of dreamy-but-determined acoustics, soaring production and enigmatic lyrics that just give it that sense of it being about something more.
- “Free Fallin'” (Full Moon Fever, 1989) Say what you will about “Free Fallin’,” but Tom Petty’s song catalog simply had to have a cut like it: one that ensures that his music will be kept alive by the John Mayers of the world for as long as there are acoustic guitars (and open-hearted teenagers who only know how to play three chords on ’em).
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Oct 20, 2023 · A tribute to the late rock legend with his finest moments, from "American Girl" to "Wildflowers", both as a band and a solo artist. Explore his influences, collaborations, and legacy in this playlist of 20 songs.
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