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Dolly Parton honored Tom Petty with a gorgeous cover of his 1985 song, “Southern Accents,” which will appear on the upcoming tribute compilation Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty ...

None of us are immune to the rule of Murphy’s Law, which is something Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers learned the hard way when making their 1985 record, Southern Accents. A string of misfortunes ...

Tom Petty intended Southern Accents, released in 1985, to be a concept album about coming to terms with his American South heritage. It never quite reached that point, as commercial concerns muscled ...