Petty was being honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year.

Not claiming a new theory of knowledge here. A promise is probably a poor substitute for a god, but it’s what we’ve got if we’re lucky and realistic — promises and hope. “Don’t  Come Around Here No More” is a slinky, seductive number.

It’s hard to fully believe the latter claim, but even taking at face value Petty’s claims of retreat from his conceptual ambition, failing to complete an idea isn’t the same as abandoning it. By the time Petty’s next major record, Full Moon Fever, was written and recorded, he had reimagined himself as a free fallin’ Southern Californian. The album's lead single, "Don't Come Around Here No More", co-written by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Since 1978 Klauzer has worked alongside Tony Dimitriades, Petty’s manager. At both shows — and throughout the tour — he closed with “American Girl,” variations of the same visuals flickering behind the band, though not as realized as at the LA show.

That’s not the problem. Southern Accents is the sixth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on March 26, 1985, through MCA Records. Things get dicey because the South of Petty’s imagination endorsed rather blindly some of the most corrosive myths of American culture and history. To put it bluntly, Petty’s South is the white South.

Given both who Petty was and the way he tried to execute the record, there was no way Southern Accents could satisfy his ambitions. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Produced by Dave Stewart, Southern Accents is an ambitious album, attempting to incorporate touches of psychedelia, soul, and country into a loose concept about the modern South. Excerpted from Southern Accents (33 1/3 Series), by Michael Washburn.

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Klauzer told me to reach out to her after the tour concluded, ideally in early October, to arrange what she expected would be a meeting at Petty’s place.

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Seven days later his life will be over.

I had cold called East End management, and as soon as she answered I thought I’d torpedoed my chances.

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Lyrics to 'Southern Accents' by Tom Petty: There's a southern accent, where I come from The young 'uns call it country, the yankees call it dumb I got my own way of talking, but everything gets done With a southern accent, where I come from The Tom Petty of Full Moon Fever was a conscious creation born from the failure of Southern Accents, at that time Petty’s last real attempt to make a bold artistic statement.

Kickstart your weekend reading by getting the week’s best Longreads delivered to your inbox every Friday afternoon. Listen to these, and you can Frankenstein into existence the milestone, barrier-breaking album that could’ve been. The failure of Southern Accents is more than a lack of coherence and a crippling reliance on 1980s’ production gimmicks. The album is deeply suffused with a long-standing, parochial, and miniaturized understanding of the American South. Originally conceived as a concept album, the theme of "Southern Accents" became somewhat murky with the inclusion of three songs co-written by Stewart, and several others originally planned for the album left off.

Besides, for an album that wasn’t a concept record about the South, Petty sure promoted it like one. Even people who get the theory don’t always see the application. It’s an ageless passion.

Main Menu. Petty realized that his adoption of these Southern symbols was being taken differently than he had intended. He wasn’t striving for a robustly detailed “novel.”. The Official Website of Tom Petty. With a southern accent, where I come from, For just a minute there I was dreaming As noted historian of the South George Brown Tindall once wrote, “To change is not necessarily to lose one’s identity; to change sometimes is to find it.”. Ultimately, the record’s problems were planted as deep as Petty’s North Florida roots. After the album’s release, Petty ensnared himself in a second thicket of issues. That’s a good thing. Now, we shouldn’t give Petty a round of applause for figuring out that not all women are white. Drugs, faddish 1980s’ production aesthetics, the mystifying inclusion of inferior songs, and a protracted recording process during which a frustrated Petty pulverized his hand melded together to create a record with a deep identity crisis. After the record was released, Petty by turns claimed conceptual success and that he had said to hell with the notion of a concept record toward the end of the recording process. In a misguided move, Petty doubled down on his appeal to these folks by wrapping himself (at times, quite literally) in Confederate iconography during the tour.

Not so on this final tour. The subcategory doesn’t matter as much as the likelihood that in most of your minds, your American girl is white. The songs comprising the thematic core of Southern Accents — “Rebels,” “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” “Southern Accents,” “Spike,” and “Dogs on the Run” — predominantly follows a single unnamed Southerner as he shambles through life embittered, drunk, antagonistic, but still hopeful and yearning for love and connection. All you need is a soundtrack to hold you to your pace.

Petty’s best music doesn’t age into dotage like so many of his contemporaries. Tommy Steele, the art director for the record, told me that neither he nor Petty knew that the painting featured a Union and not Confederate soldier, nor did they consider that the wheat the solider reaps symbolizes, in the critical vocabulary of Homer’s time and ours, the North. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The Official Website of Tom Petty. Add Photo; Home; Music; Videos; Photos; News; Store; Radio; tp nation; YDKHIF; You are here.

Over the previous nine years, Petty and the Heartbreakers had released a series of successful records. By the time Petty’s next major record, Full Moon Fever, was written and recorded, he had reimagined himself as a free fallin’ Southern Californian. With a southern accent, where I come from.

© 2019 by Southern Accents - A Tribute to Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Petty had all kinds of money and all kinds of fame, but he wanted to challenge himself artistically. Petty prowls the stage playing a white Fender Electric XII, and then he steps to the mic and belts out in his late-career, Dylan-esque sneer, “She was an American Girl / raised on promises.”.

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Southern Accents. Within a half an hour of my first email, news had broken of Petty’s cardiac arrest.

Tracks like “Refugee,” “The Waiting,” “Running Down a Dream” feel as vital today as when they were recorded. But Petty did also subtly engage in politics during his career, especially in the later years.

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After that, he would be on tour. The Southern Accents tour book features the Confederate Battle Flag, and the flag was a prominent stage prop — in background images and lining Petty’s clothing. The album's lead single, "Don't Come Around Here No More", co-written by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Many of these songs are better written, are produced with better quality, and, perhaps most importantly, are of a piece with the original thematic intent of the record. Southern Accents is an incoherent yet compelling mess. In 1985, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most beloved songwriters made a regrettable misstep with a narrow conception of Southern identity. And with all its historical burden, the South is nearly impossible to succinctly explore. Yes, it’s usually the white, middle-aged, or older, bulge of America, but you take the point. Petty adopted a staggeringly uncritical stance toward commonplace historical misunderstandings of the South, and his record manages to be both too much and too little about the South. But he did punctuate this tour and, however unexpectedly, his career, by playing one of his most durable creations against a backdrop that both asserts and celebrates America’s multiracial society.

His impending crisis was more than boredom, though.


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