I never had much time for Stevie Nicks. But, ‘Stop Dragging My Heart Around’ was one of the best three things she ever did. Tom popped off songs that popped off other people very easily. Like shoe leather off a cow. It was all in the smoothness of the delivery. Taking the time. She continues… See the full article here
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When 15 years later Nicks asked Petty to write her another song, the circumstances were much different. Nicks told me: “I had been in and out of rehab and I was really down. Tom was playing in town, and we went to dinner the night before. I asked if he would help me write a song.
“And he just flat out, in the Tom Petty swamp dog way, said: ‘I’m not going to help you write a song, because you are, in my opinion, Stevie, one of the premiere songwriters of our time. You just need to go back to your house and sit in front of your piano and start writing.’ Something about the conversation really hit me. It gave me a new lease on life – if Tom Petty thinks I can do it, then I guess I can.”
“Several years before Tom passed away, Stevie came on a tour with us and played tambourine and sang back-up,” says Tench (who is currently working on his second solo album and is always in touch with his old bandmates).
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