"Listen to Her Heart" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

In 1975, after the Gainesville Florida band Mudcrutch toiled in obscurity and dissolved, lead vocalist Thomas Earl Petty reluctantly decided to strike out on his own. Eventually, he would find his way back to his Mudcrutch bandmates and form Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

“Listen to Her Heart” is the second single from their second album You're Gonna Get It!.  It’s a garage-rock-esque number that Petty wrote after Ike Turner made sexual advances towards his wife. I love the straight ahead simplicity of this track- its Link Wray like growling guitars juxtaposed against the shimmery solos.
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Two years ago this month, we lost Petty and much has been said about his music, music that at the time, we often took for granted. Let’s face it, he never was that pretty of a front man, and like his friend Bob Dylan, didn’t have that velvet voice, but man he wrote some fantastic songs and sold millions of albums, confirming that “even the ‘losers’ get lucky sometime.”