With his long blond hair and high cheekbones, Tom Petty looked like a central-casting rock star. The nasal whine of his voice, propensity to pick fights with the music industry, and loyalty to the ...

Tom Petty is one of the greatest American songwriters. With a seemingly effortless ability, Petty wrote songs that felt like you knew from birth, yet they were songs you wanted to sing over and over ...

And up for auction is a wall of vinyl records, which seems like they were tucked away in a meeting room somewhere — 24 of what the auction site dubbed as “Twitter Essentials,” which evidently includes ...

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

Mike Campbell was the glue of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, meaning the song he was proudest of held some major gravitas ...

Dierks Bentley has released a refreshing rendition of Tom Petty‘s 1976 hit “American Girl.” Bentley’s bluegrass version will appear on the forthcoming tribute album Petty Country: A Country Music ...

Some final albums carry the vague air of an impending departure, the sense that an artist is coming to terms with mortality. Not Hypnotic Eye, the last record Tom Petty released with his longtime band ...

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 ...

A Tom Petty tribute album, Petty Country, is set to arrive later this year. Among the contributors are Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Chris Stapleton, Marty Stuart, Margo Price and many more. Two former ...