I can’t believe I haven’t done this one yet! The indie and indie-minded love to cover some Petty. He may be terrible at taxes, but he’s great at writing songs.
The zip file does NOT have the direct-linked ez archive songs in it; just the savefile ones.
A is for Tom’s most famous song . . . American Girl-Melora Creager
B is for Backyard Tire Fire’s tribute to this great songwriter . . .Tom Petty-Backyard Tire Fire
C is for Change the Locks-Keller Williams. The only song on this list where I haven’t actually heard TP do it.
D is for Free Falling-Brian Dolzani. Lots of covers of this song. I like this one the best: Freefallin’-Death Cab For Cutie.
E is for Even The Losers (Petty cover)-Jason Isbell of The Drive-By Truckers. From June 9, 2005. Jason puts on a great live show.
F is for Running Down a Dream-Tony Furtado
G is for gag, which most Mayer songs make me do . . .Free Fallin-John Mayer
H is for hearts. You Got Lucky-Black Heart Procession
I is for I Need to Know-Local H. Local H’s whole Petty set can be found here. They did 6 Petty songs in total.
J is for Free Fallin’-Jarflys.
L is for Listen to Her Heart-Fastball
M is for American Girl-Pat McGee Band.
O is for One Song, Many Versions. Mary Jane’s Last Dance-Ari Hest. Probably my least favorite Tom Petty single, this version kicks ass over the original. It gives the song some much-needed balls. It’s kind of shocking to me, though, how many people have covered the tune.
P is for peace! American Girl-Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers
R is for Rebels-Drive-By Truckers.
S is for Time to Move On-Jon Shain.
T is for two-for-one. A cool mash up of two unlikely folks, one pure R&B pop, and the other Tom. If I Were a Free Fallin’ Boy (Beyonce “If I Were a Boy” vs. Tom Petty “Free Fallin’”)-DJ Earworm.
V is for You Got Lucky-Venice Is Sinking
W is for Listen To Her Heart-Wilco
X is for It’s Xmas All Over-Young Sinclairs.
Y is for You Wreck Me (Tom Petty)-Holler! A lesser known tune, not great, but solid. I was very surprised to find two covers of it . . . You Wreck Me-Revolutionary Side Effects
Z is for Zip File!
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Thanks for the post. I’m a big TP fan, but you are right about the Ari Hest of ‘Mary Jane’ – it’s much better than the original.
Regards, Dave.
Comment by Dave — January 5, 2009 @ 8:19 pm
Thanks for the thanks. I don’t get near enough of those.
Comment by ekko — January 6, 2009 @ 4:58 am
Great set as always – thanks. FYI, Change The Locks is actually a Petty cover (of which there are dozens) – the original, of course, was by Lucinda Williams in Car Wheels On A Gravel Road.
Comment by JoeG — January 6, 2009 @ 9:50 am
Nice work. Thanks for all these!
Actually, Changed The Locks is from Lucinda’s self-titled ‘98 album and was covered by Petty for the She’s The One SDTK. There is a acoustic version on the Deluxe version of Car Wheels.
Comment by Jordman — January 8, 2009 @ 10:56 am
My bad – of course, Jordman is exactly right. There’s a great cover of Change The Locks by Kasey Chambers, by the way, from a Soundstage with Lucinda & Kasey – very much worth tracking down.
Comment by JoeG — January 9, 2009 @ 4:07 pm
MOST EXCELLENT!
Comment by Hanan — January 9, 2009 @ 5:52 pm
G is for gag and O is for O-some. Check out Ari Hest’s latest interview at my blog. (http://blog.warpoldwine.com/ari-hest-interview-with-the-heartbreak-kid/)
Comment by Warpold — March 18, 2010 @ 4:45 pm