![]() Now I smuggled some smokes and folks from Mexicoīaked by the sun, every time I go to Mexico, and I’m stillĭylan has performed this song 9 times in concert: 1990 (6), 1991 (1), 1992 (2) & 1995 (1). Had my head stoved in, but I’m still on my feet and I’m still… Willin’ I’ve been kicked by the wind, robbed by the sleet ![]() – The Byrds (LP: Outtake from the Untitled Sessions)ĭriven every kind of rig that’s ever been madeĭriven the back roads so I wouldn’t get weighedĪnd if you give me: weed, whites, and wine ![]() – Tom Petty – LIVE HD (2013) Hollywood Fonda Theatre – Steve Earle (from the album “Sidetracks”): The song is about a truck driver in the American southwest who makes some extra cash smuggling cigarettes and transporting illegals across the border from Mexico.Īlthough the band never had a charting single, this is arguably their best known song. Guitarist/singer Lowell George wrote this before the group was even formed. This originally appeared on Little Feat’s debut album, but the version that has become famous was recorded for the follow-up, Sailin’ Shoes, in 1972. Lowell Thomas George ( Ap– June 29, 1979) was an American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, who was the primary guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the rock band Little Feat. Out on the road late at night, Seen my pretty Alice in every head light I’m drunk and dirty don’t ya know, and I’m still, willin’ Rather, his calm, clear-eyed delivery suggests a series of ellipses an artist perfectly at ease with his pacing however it wends and winds over a few hours of playing.I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow On the latter, Tench’s keyboard fills were both percussive and melodic, adding necessary texture and offering an extended solo as an exclamation point.īut Petty’s not much on exclamation points. Drummer Steve Ferrone understands how to propel movement, as proved through his steady work on upbeat songs such as “You Wreck Me,” “Runnin’ Down a Dream” and the little-known gem “Melinda,” but too often was relegated to unnecessarily simplistic beats. Though Petty’s crawling voice and easy pacing is part of his allure, the Heartbreakers were at their best when Petty asked more of his rhythm section. Like any seasoned selector, Petty and band on Monday cooked through enough singalong gems to feed the eager crowd - “I Won’t Back Down,” “Refugee,” “Runnin’ Down a Dream” and, in Petty’s words, “the one that started it all,” “American Girl.”īut the meat of the show featured them dusting off tracks including the early “Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It),” from the band’s 1976 self-titled debut, “A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me)” from “Hard Promises” and the sexy blues romp “Cabin Down Below” from Petty’s solo album “Wildflowers.” His weekly radio show on SiriusXM is an inspired romp through the rock, country, folk and blues music that informs his art, and he presents these DJ sets with wit, knowledge and the passion of a music obsessive, all delivered in his lazy, North Florida drawl. Petty’s been doing a lot of digging lately. On a night devoted to lesser-known work from Petty and the band’s consistently engaging discography, the longtime Angeleno presented a hidden narrative. PHOTOS: Iconic rock guitars and their owners The West Coast ran through each Rickenbacker guitar riff like a breeze through his blond hair, whether the tripped-out, Grateful Dead-suggestive excursion at the end of the Traveling Wilburys’ “Tweeter and the Monkey Man” or the jangled joy of “Rebels” from “Southern Accents.” The sound of California permeated the band’s 20-song set, which delivered deep cuts from throughout Petty’s career, peppered with enough hits to underscore the songwriter’s universal appeal. He needn’t have verbalized this debt, or those spirits, on Monday. He then dedicated a cover of Little Feat’s “Willin’ ” to “the ghost of Lowell George,” the band’s late lead singer. in the mid-1970s at the end of the golden age of the city’s folk rock movement, and told the crowd that it was the music that attracted him, citing the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield in particular. ![]() Petty, 62, journeyed through the past on Night 1 of a stint that will stretch through June 11. They introduced themselves through the Byrds’ 1967 classic “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” and paid homage to that song’s inspiration, the Monkees, with a rebuttal via “(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone.” On Monday night in Hollywood, Tom Petty had Los Angeles ghosts on his mind as he and his longtime band the Heartbreakers opened the first of six shows at the Fonda.
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