July 24, 2006

Highway Companion

Tom Petty has a new album coming out. If you'd like to listen to samples of it, you can click here.
The ad to your right will take you to his MySpace page where you can listen to full copies of some of his older material and check his touring schedule. The Allman Brothers Band will be playing some of the dates with him.

When I moved to Gainesville back in 1985, the Welcome Wagon lady was his mother-in-law Jane. She was good friends with my next-door neighbor and we all watched the MTV awards together when "Don't Come Around Here No More" was up for an award. It won for best special effects.
She'd meet a lot of characters on her trips out to visit her daughter and grandchildren, and Mr. Cracker got a chuckle of this nice conservative Southern lady's description of Eurythmics' Dave Stewart as "that odd little man."

Anyway, it's always good to have a Florida boy still around making music.

Posted by floridacracker at July 24, 2006 10:53 PM

   



Comments

wow Donnah, I remember those awards...AND that TP and the HB's won in that catagory. I thought it was earlier than 85 tho'...that was the one where he was the Mad Hatter..I will check the vid It was a popular song for sure.

I went to the big hangout in Tallahasee (don't ask me the name, but maybe Big Daddy's ??) and TP was the front for the band... but it wasn't the Heartbreakers-or at least that wasn't their name then.

Besides...I was there just to watch the Gators
eat the Seminoles anyway.

Posted by: csason at July 25, 2006 06:28 AM

Reading his Wikipedia entry, he sure has been successful. 16 Grammy nominations, among a whole slew of other things. I think he might be the most successful act to come out of Florida. And he can't even sing.

Posted by: Donnah at July 25, 2006 07:02 AM

Hey, what's with the spaceman holding hands with that chimp? After reading Before the Dawn, I'm a little nervous about war-mongering chimps hanging out with humans. Maybe it's just a peaceful bonobo....

Posted by: carl in atlanta at July 25, 2006 07:06 AM

"And he can't even sing."

guess he took lessons from the only blue-eyed Zimmerman to leave Hibbing in a hurry.

my brothers used to make fun of me doing Dylan covers at the pizza parlors...I should have ignored them.

Posted by: csason at July 25, 2006 09:24 AM

Bob Dylan can't sing either. Or should I say,"Bah-DYyeh-cah-si-EIya."

Posted by: Donnah at July 25, 2006 09:34 AM