TOM PETTY COVERS A to Z!

Posted on January 5th, 2009 by ekko

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.

MJLD-Curtis Peoples

MJLD-Justin Trawick

MJLD-Rusty Starz

MJ’s Last Dance-Flatlander

Strangefolk’s version

Greenstreet

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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11 Responses to "TOM PETTY COVERS A to Z!"

  1. 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.

  2. Thanks for the thanks. I don’t get near enough of those.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. MOST EXCELLENT!

  7. 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/)

  8. Oh wow man, I HAVE GOT TO have these! I’m all about Petty and love hearing covers of his songs!

    Unfortunately the original zipfile is no longer valid.

    Could someone reupload the zip file? PLEEEAZZE??

    Thanks.

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