The Tom Petty Project
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This is the weekly podcast that digs into the entire Tom Petty catalog song by song, album by album and includes conversations with musicians, fans, and people connected with Tom along the way.
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- The Trip to Pirate's Cove (with Dallas Heliker) · 1 sa 6 dk · Sezon 15 Bölüm 10For today's episode, I ended up doing somethign different. My pal - and very long time listener - Dallas Heliker and I were chatting offline and I asked him if he wanted to jump…
- Running Man's Bible · 21 dk · Sezon 15 Bölüm 9Drew Olson writing for OnMilwaukee.com, in a very brief tribute to Howie, quotes Tom as saying "I'd always wanted to deal with Howie's death, and there's some of that in there…
- Robin Vincent Returns · 1 sa 43 dk · Sezon 15 Bölüm 8Today’s episode is being released on what would have been Tom’s 76th birthday. It was the date very specifically chosen by my guest, Robin Vincent for the release of her latest…
- The Petty 8ight with Paul Bradbury · 1 sa 9 dk · Sezon 15 Bölüm 7This week's episode is the fifth installment The Petty 8ight! I love talking to Pettyheads, musicians, and other people who have been influenced by Tom or his music in myriad…
- First Flash of Freedom · 22 dk · Sezon 15 Bölüm 6The track comes out firing on all cylinders with those aggressively swept ascending notes. Yet again, we’re being treated to something that’s a million miles from anything we’ve…
- Jake Thistle - A Stranger by Design (Track by Track) · 1 sa 12 dk · Sezon 15 Bölüm 5Here's the second of this special two parter episode. As a reminder, on the day this episode drops, Jake Thistle’s full length label debut album, A Stranger by Design, is now…
- Jake Thistle · 42 dk · Sezon 15 Bölüm 4As this episode drops, our pal Jake Thistle has released his full length label debut album, A Stranger by Design. As always, Jake very graciously gave me an overgenerous amount…
- Jefferson Jericho Blues · 23 dk · Sezon 15 Bölüm 3When the album finally dropped, people who hadn’t heard this song must have been slightly surprised to be assaulted with a howling harmonica part straight out of the traps…
- Episode 300 - Deep Cut Draft (with John Paulsen) · 1 sa 0 dk · Sezon 15 Bölüm 2For Episode 300, I figured we should do something a little special. So I called up my pal John Paulsen to combine the two things he does best; fantasty drafts and playlists! We…
- Get Yer Mojo On · 14 dk · Sezon 15 Bölüm 1Season Fifteen begins. The first song I remember hearing from this album was I Should Have Known It. But I didn’t hear it on the radio. A good friend of mine, Kris Klyne, who is…
- Dolly Parton · 37 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 23We were due to start Season Fifteen today and start thinking about Mojo, but the day of recording, well the legend that was Dolly Parton passed away and I decided to write an…
- The Other Guys! · 57 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 22Obviously, Tom is the primary focus of most of this project, but as I said last week, one of the joys of the last five years has been discovering how astonishingly good a band…
- Five Years (and counting) · 19 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 21Something I’ve been thinking about a fair bit this week is how my relationship with Tom’s music has changed over the years that I’ve been doing the show now. The very short…
- Live from Gatorville · 22 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 20Included on one of the discs in the Running Down a Dream documentary by Peter Bogdanovic, the release has been widely circulated in many bootleg forms and I think we’re long…
- Remembering Robert Deyber · 19 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 19“I was doing fine on my own, selling from my own website privately, and right at the same time Tom Petty contacted me and told me he’d been secretly collecting my work, and…
- Phoebe Bridgers - It'll All Work Out · 18 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 18Leading into the last verse, there’s some back masked, slightly distorted guitar, again over that suspended fourth chord before the arrangement drops back to let Bridgers’ voice…
- Guitars & Mike Campbell with Josh Caldwell · 1 sa 49 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 17Today's episode is a wide ranging conversation that I had with my friend Josh Caldwell. Josh and I met through a mutual love of Van Halen and the superb And the Podcast Will…
- Highway Companion (with John Paulsen) · 1 sa 14 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 16My pal John Paulsen is back to run through Highway Companion with me. We get into the weeds about whether I'm overscoring the catalogue and as always, we take a shot a…
- The Golden Rose · 18 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 15We often talk about album openers and closers and I’m sure my pal John Paulsen and I will get into that next week, but of all the songs that were included on this record, the…
- Freddie Mercury · 31 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 14I’m thinking of this as part of a new occasional series that I can return to called “Origins” and will be about the songwriters and/or musicians that have shaped my musical…
- Ankle Deep · 23 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 13Let’s talk about the lyrics to this one first. Tom goes on to say “You don’t have a lot of room to write a story in a song. So you have to be economical with your lines.” and…
- This Old Town · 24 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 12We’ve talked a few times this season about the fact that the album wasn’t finished when Tom played the songs for Paul Zollo. In the book, he tells Paul, “I still haven’t figured…
- Specifics Create Dynamics · 21 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 11Specifics create dynamics. I love this idea.I watched Ethan Hawke talking about this in regards to acting and pretty much immediately thought, “The same applies to lyrics!” and…
- Damaged by Love · 21 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 10“There's rain on the road And the faithful have gone. In a crowd all alone, Walking 'round in a song”. It’s a great little snapshot or vignette, as Tom so often gives us, of…
- Night Driver · 24 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 9Night Driver is one of those perfect album tracks that you always want to hear on great records. There’s something to be said for albums where any song could basically be a…
- Big Weekend · 26 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 8The first verse contains one of my all time favourite lyrics. Not just one of my very favourite Tom Petty lyrics, just one of my favourite lyrics full stop. And it’s not a superb…
- Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll (Revisited) · 26 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 7“Some friends of mine and me stayed up all through the night, Rockin' pretty steady 'til the sky went light And didn't go to bed, Didn't go to work. I picked up the telephone…
- Turn This Car Around · 26 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 6In my mind’s eye, I see a younger couple, maybe mid to late twenties, driving an old cadillac along a dark desert highway... A kid, about 7 or 8 years is in the back seat having…
- Jack · 28 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 5Jack is a peculiar song. It doesn’t have a typical structure and it’s much more a mood piece. As I said, I sort of consider this one to be a chance encounter on the Highway Tom…
- Down South · 27 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 4Every now and then I try to think about my top ten Tom Petty deep cuts. There are so many that I love and that I’ve discovered, rediscovered, or come to appreciate so much more…
- Flirting with Time · 26 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 3“You’re flirting with time”, Tom sings. And I like that idea of not fully committing to time, just flirting with it. That’s definitely how life feels when you’re in your twenties…
- Square One · 22 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 2Saving Grace is the work of a middle-aged man who fully knows himself and knows how to articulate the past and the present in three very vivid dimensions. Critical to retaining…
- Saving Grace · 26 dk · Sezon 14 Bölüm 1“You keep running for another place To find that saving grace” probably doesn’t hit in the same place for most Pettyheads as “Most things I worry about never happen anyway” but I…
- Hitting the Highway · 12 dk · Sezon 14There’s a languidity that floats through a lot of this record; Square One, Night Driver, Turn this Car Around, This Old Down, and The Golden Rose... These are songs to cruise to…
- The Last DJ (with John Paulsen) · 1 sa 7 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 33The wonderful John Paulsen is back to talk all things Last DJ! John actually saw one of the two dates at the Olympic, so I get to ask him about that, we dive into the potential…
- Can't Stop the Sun · 23 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 32Everything about this song appeals to me. The soft-loud dynamic of the verse and chorus, coupled with the 4/4 3/4 switch from verse to chorus, along with the minor to major…
- Vinyl Review 2025 · 39 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 31It’s that time of year for me to look back at what I was listening to in the past twelve months and give you some recommendations! I’ve listened to a ton of music in the past…
- 10 Questions with Steve Ursell · 41 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 30Steve Ursell is back to run through my ten questions and give me his thoughts on his favourite album, which version of Walls he prefers, and which song he'd want to cover with…
- Steve Ursell · 1 sa 4 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 29This week, before we wrap up the last song from The Last DJ, I’m sharing a conversation that I had with an English gent that I met through my Queen podcast and someone I’ve…
- 10 Questions with Robin Vincent · 32 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 28Robin Vincent is back to give me her answers to my ten questions. You wouldn't necessarily think that World of Warcraft would play a significant role in defining Robin's…
- Robin Vincent · 1 sa 22 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 27Today’s bonus episode is a fantastic chat with another artist I was very fortunate to see perform down at the Tom Petty Weekend in Gainesville. Robin Vincent, whose band, Robin…
- Have Love, Will Travel · 24 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 26The DJ comes back and the ditch he’s digging, to keep the flames from the temple, are the songs and the culture he’s trying to build around his freeform station to stop outside…
- 10 Questions with Matt Burke · 25 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 25Ten questions, ten answers. Matt Burke is back to let me know which artists he'd most like to see open for Tom and the Heartbreakers and he throws a little love Joe Walsh's way…
- Matt Burke (Have Gun, Will Travel) · 1 sa 22 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 24Today’s episode is a part of my artist conversation series and is a wonderful chat I had with songwriter for and lead singer of Have Gun, Will Travel. For those of you who were…
- The Man Who Loves Women · 22 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 23In last week’s outro I’d intimated that I hear a strong resemblance between this song and another favourite band of mine, The Kinks. So first of all, just sonically, if it walks…
- 10 Questions with Sam Krishnan · 32 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 22Sam Krishnan is back to answer my ten questions! He gives me his "boring answer" (his words!) to the question "Who is your favourite Heartbreaker other than Tom?" and then gives…
- Sam Krishnan (Bye Lily) · 1 sa 21 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 21Today’s episode is another bonus artist conversation that I had with a young French songwriter who’s currently based in England, performing under the name “Bye Lily”. Sam…
- You and Me · 25 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 20You and Me is another “Little song”, if we use Ivan Anderson’s brilliant concept of what that means. It doesn’t shoot for the moon, doesn’t explore nuanced or clever or grand…
- 10 Questions with Shine · 23 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 19Shine is back to answer my Ten Questions! She draws a brilliant parallel from Fault Lines to big band music, we ruminate on the brilliance of Mike Campbell and Shine shares her…
- Brian Ruskin aka Mental Health Consumer · 1 sa 47 dk · Sezon 13 Bölüm 18This special bonus episode of the podcast is a conversation I had with the wonderful Brian Ruskin of the Honest and Unmerciful Record Review Podcast. As well as co-hosting one of…
