Notes
Introduction
1 George Brown Tindall, The Ethnic Southerners (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1976), 21.
Down South
1 Tom Petty Interview with Terry Gross. “Tom Petty: The Fresh Air Interview: NPR.” Fresh Air from WHYY. National Public Radio, October 3, 2017. https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=555302003
2 Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 33.
3 Paul Zollo, Conversations with Tom Petty (New York: Omnibus Press, 2005), 34.
4 Gary Graff, “Tom Petty’s New Tales of the Old South.” Creem, October 1985.
5 David Hinckley, “Tom Petty Doesn’t Forget Southern Roots.” Ocala Star-Banner, July 19, 1987. Accessed via The Petty Archives, March 15, 2018. https://www.thepettyarchives.com/archives/newspapers/1980s/1987-07-19-ocalastarbanner
6 6 Graff, “Tom Petty’s New Tales.”
7 7 Robert Hilburn, “Tom Petty Breaks Down 10 of His Songs, Including Big Hits and Obsure Gems.” Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2002. Accessed September 1, 2018. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-tom-petty-songs-archive-20020315-story.html
8 8 Zanes, Petty, 181.
9 9 Jonathan Taylor, “Tom Petty: Good Ol’ Boy Making Music.” Chicago Tribune, June 22, 1985. Accessed via the Petty Archives, March 15, 2018. https://www.thepettyarchives.com/archives/newspapers/1980s/1985-06-22-chicagotribune
10 Graff, “Tom Petty’s New Tales.”
11 Howard Zinn, The Southern Mystique (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967).
12 Zollo, Conversations, 87.
13 Zanes, Petty, 188.
14 Graff, “Tom Petty’s New Tales.”
Who Did You Expect to Meet?
1 1 Zanes, Petty, 181.
2 2 Robert Hilburn, “Tom Petty Shakes Doldrums, Rocks On.” Pittsburgh Press, June 20, 1987, F1.
3 3 American Treasure prerelease liner notes provided to the author by Larry Jenkins.
4 4 Ibid.
5 5 Ibid.
6 6 Zanes, Petty, 185.
7 Hilburn, “Tom Petty Shakes Doldrums.”
8 Zollo, Conversations, 226.
9 Hilburn, “Tom Petty Shakes Doldrums.”
Southern Accents
1 Bud Scoppa, “Tom Petty: The Agony and the Ecstasy of an Obsessive Rock Artist.” Red Bank Daily Register (NJ), August 18, 1985, 5.
2 Nick Thomas, Tom Petty: An American Rock and Roll Story (Green, OH: Guardian Express Media, 2014), 123.
3 Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture (New York: Vintage, 1991), 618.
4 W. Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2005), 2.
5 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Southern Accents, directed by Richard Shenkman (1985; MTV Networks, Inc). Retrieved from YouTube, November 20, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y23quIelnzw
Rebels
1 Christopher R. Weingartetn et al., “Tom Petty’s 50 Greatest Songs.” Rolling Stone, October 2, 2017. Accessed April 5, 2018. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/tom-pettys-50-greatest-songs-197807/free-fallin-197915/
2 Graff, “Tom Petty’s New Tales.”
3 Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (New York: Dell, 1961), v.
4 Greil Marcus, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music (New York: Plume, 2015), 98.
5 Marty Racine, “Petty, Cool Cus...