TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – SOUTHERN ACCENTS LP – Nr MINT/EXC+ A2/B2 UK 1985 ORIG

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Southern Accents
(MCA Records  1985  MCF3260)
Matrix No’s: A2/B2 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– crease in one corner

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from a few light crackles at the very start of each side)

Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer. He was best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but was also a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, and his early band Mudcrutch.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were an American rock band formed in Gainesville, Florida, in 1976. The band originally comprised lead singer and rhythm guitarist Tom Petty, lead guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench, drummer Stan Lynchand bassist Ron Blair. In 1982, Blair, weary of the touring lifestyle, departed the band. His replacement, Howie Epstein, remained with the band for the next two decades. In 1991, Scott Thurston joined the band as a multi-instrumentalist, primarily on rhythm guitar and secondary keyboard. In 1994, Steve Ferrone replaced Lynch on drums. Blair returned to the Heartbreakers in 2002, the year before Epstein’s death. The band had a long string of hit singles, including “Breakdown”, “American Girl” (both 1976), “Refugee” (1979), “The Waiting” (1981), “Learning to Fly” (1991), and “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” (1993), among many others, that stretched over several decades of work.

Southern Accents is the sixth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on March 26, 1985, through MCA Records. 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. The song “Southern Accents” was later covered by Johnny Cash for his Unchained album in 1996.

Track listing

All songs were written by Tom Petty, except where noted.

1. “Rebels” – 5:21
2. “It Ain’t Nothin’ to Me” (Petty, Dave Stewart) – 5:12
3. “Don’t Come Around Here No More” (Petty, Stewart) – 5:07
4. “Southern Accents” – 4:44
5. “Make It Better (Forget About Me)” (Petty, Stewart) – 4:23
6. “Spike” – 3:32
7. “Dogs on the Run” (Petty, Mike Campbell) – 3:40
8. “Mary’s New Car” – 3:47
9. “The Best of Everything” – 4:03

Personnel

• Tom Petty – vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards, percussion, producer, bass guitar
• Mike Campbell – guitar, bass guitar, Dobro, keyboards, vocals, producer, slide guitar
• Benmont Tench – piano, keyboards, piano (electric), vocals, vibraphone
• Stan Lynch – drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals
• Howie Epstein – bass guitar, vocals, harmony vocals

with:

• William Bergman – horn, sax (tenor), sound effects, vocals (bckgr)
• John Berry, Jr. – trumpet, horn, sound effects
• David Bianco – engineer
• Ron Blair – bass
• Dick Braun – trumpet, horn, sound effects, vocals (bckgr)
• Steve Breitborde – photography
• Sharon Celani – vocals
• Jim Coile – horn, sax (tenor), sound effects, vocals
• Malcolm Duncan – saxophone
• Molly Duncan – saxophone
• Joel Fein – engineer
• Dean Garcia – bass
• Bobbye Hall – percussion
• Jerry Hey – horn, horn conductor
• Winslow Homer – artwork, cover painting
• Garth Hudson – keyboards
• Jimmy Iovine – producer
• Clydene Jackson – vocals
• Phil Jones – percussion
• Martin Jourard – saxophone
• Dennis Keeley – photography
• Jim Keltner – percussion
• Richard Manuel – vocals, harmony vocals
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering
• Marilyn Martin – vocals
• Kurt McGettrick – horn, sound effects, vocals
• Jack Nitzsche – strings, string arrangements
• Dave Plews – trumpet
• Robbie Robertson – producer
• Daniel Rothmuller – clarinet, cello
• Don Smith – engineer, remixing
• Greg Smith – horn, saxophone, sax (baritone), vocals
• Stephanie Spruill – vocals
• Steele Works – design, cover design
• Tommy Steele – art direction, design, cover design
• David A. Stewart – bass, guitar, keyboards, sitar, vocals, producer
• Julia Tillman Waters – vocals
• Maxine Waters – vocals
• Alan “Bugs” Weidel – engineer
• Maxine Willard Waters – vocals
• Shelly Yakus – engineer, remixing