![]() It’s the one he painted both photo-real and abstract. Tom Petty’s California is my favorite California. A place we can continue to visit, even if after its creator is gone. Musicians leave behind much more than records. He made me believe in two things: that songwriting was everything, and that California must have felt like his music sounded. Growing up a kid in suburban Connecticut in the late ‘80s, Tom Petty’s music was the only thing like it, both on the radio and on MTV. Petty was a major architect of the spirit that makes musicians want to flock to California and write their songs and live the life that both authors them and is authored by them. The songs spark these visions, some of them memories, and some of them just seen for the first time in the music and revisited throughout the years. Every great song and artist associated with it adds a patch to that sun-faded tapestry. Musically speaking, California is a repository for dreams. He wasn’t born there, but he planted so many songs there, it’s where his music takes place in my mind. ![]() One of the high priests of the Sonic Church of California. ![]()
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