Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: September 19, 2018

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Rick Rubin Mike W. Campbell Tom Petty

Homegrown in the headphone
Sandy loading up the van

Singing through the speaker
You're all right, anywhere you land

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Gainesville was a big town
Gainesville was a big town

Bird dog in the high grass
Dancers all along the wall

We got down to Clearwater*
You're ok anywhere you fall

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On and on and on we go
Good times roll and then move on
Long ago and far away, another time, another day

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – an L.A.-based gang of sharp-dressed garage-rock refugees from Gainsville, Florida – released their debut LP in November 1976, featuring two tracks which are now part of their long list of hits, “Breakdown” and “American Girl.”

Since that first LP in ‘76, the band’s style has epitomized and largely defined the American “heartland rock” movement – a vintage-guitar twang, hard lyric truth, and searing vocal attitude.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been nominated for 17 Grammy awards and sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling bands of all-time.

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