Stevie Simkin wrote:
> well bloody hell, here I am, one of the biggest TP fans on the planet (I flew
> from Scotland to California to see him in 1991, convinced he was never going to
> play Europe again), and the new album has been released everywhere in the world
> except the UK. Here they've delayed it until next Monday so it gets released to
> coincide with two dates he is playing in a little theatre usually frequented by
> the likes of Wilco, the Shepherd's Bush Empire.
>
> Can't wait for the gig, but it would be nice to be able to chime in on this
> debate. At least I will catch him on Letterman tonight (we're a day behind over
> here...)
>
> Petty doesn't come up much on the lists. Maybe things would be different if he
> had ever completed Southern Accents properly, and made it the rock artist's
> version of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" that he intended it to be.
>
> incidentally, this is cross-posted, since, oddly enough, there are TP threads
> running on both P and P2 right now...
>
> Stevie
>
> np - Tom Petty, "Trailer". One of the greatest country songs by a rock'n'roller
> ever...
