Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:

Hard Promises:(1981)

Southern Accents:(1985)

I think I was thirteen when I got turned onto Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, actually it was a cut from Full Moon Fever, solo it was a solo Petty track (well, as solo as he gets). I was just at the age to start really getting into music. The closest place to buy music, cassettes were my choice medium at the time, was forty miles away, or there was a mall ninety miles away. So, I really had to work hard to remember what I wanted to buy when we went. My godfather had made me a mix tape with a bunch of things on it, and the Petty cut was one of them. Free Falling, I think was the track on there. So I first bought Full Moon Fever, I remember the case had a weird plastic smell when I unwrapped the shrink wrap. It smelled like a combo of plastic and tortillas. From there, I went on one of those fantastical journeys you have, mostly when you're young, exploring an artists back catalog. A particular favorite period of the Petty catalog for me, is the three albums that came out between '81 and '85; Hard Promises, Long After Dark, and Southern Accents. These are the two pieces of vinyl I currently hold.