Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty

ReleasedJune 21, 2024

StudioVarious artists' studios

Length76:40

Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty

Compilation album by various artists
Released	June 21, 2024
Studio	Various artists' studios
Genre	Country
Length	76:40
Label	Big Machine
Producer	Scott Borchetta George Drakoulias Randall Poster

Singles from Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty
"American Girl" Released: February 23, 2024 "Breakdown" Released: April 11, 2024

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Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty is a 2024 tribute album celebrating the life of Tom Petty. It features 20 covers of Petty songs that feature a variety of country artists. The Tom Petty estate put the album together.^[2]

Many of the 20 featured artists released their songs ahead of time as singles, with the first being Dierks Bentley, who released his rendition of "American Girl" on February 23, 2024. Bentley gave high praise of the song, saying that, while it wasn't a country song, it was one of Tom Petty's "greatest songs in a life’s work of great American songs."^[3]

On April 6, 2024, Dolly Parton released a cover of "Southern Accents", accompanied by a music video. The video showcased "home videos and professional footage of Petty throughout his life."^[4]

Other artists to release songs ahead of time include Steve Earle on May 10 with "Yer So Bad",^[5] Wynonna Judd on May 17 with "Refugee",^[6] Eli Young Band on June 3 with "Learning to Fly"^[7] and Margo Price on June 7 with "Ways to Be Wicked".^[8]

Track listing

*Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty* track listing
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"I Should Have Known It"	Chris Stapleton	3:56
2.	"Wildflowers"	Thomas Rhett	3:15
3.	"Runnin' Down a Dream"	Luke Combs	4:07
4.	"Southern Accents"	Dolly Parton	4:27
5.	"Here Comes My Girl"	Justin Moore	4:43
6.	"American Girl"	Dierks Bentley	3:03
7.	"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"	Lady A	4:18
8.	"I Forgive It All"	Jamey Johnson	4:26
9.	"I Won't Back Down"	Brothers Osborne	2:58
10.	"Refugee"	Wynonna Judd feat. Lainey Wilson	3:50
11.	"Angel Dream (No. 2)"	Willie Nelson and Lukas Nelson	2:29
12.	"Learning to Fly"	Eli Young Band	3:25
13.	"Breakdown"	Ryan Hurd feat. Carly Pearce	3:09
14.	"Yer So Bad"	Steve Earle	2:58
15.	"Ways to Be Wicked"	Margo Price feat. Mike Campbell	3:27
16.	"Mary Jane's Last Dance"	Midland	5:04
17.	"Free Fallin'"	The Cadillac Three feat. Breland	4:35
18.	"I Need to Know"	Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives	2:38
19.	"Don't Come Around Here No More"	Rhiannon Giddens feat. Silkroad Ensemble and Benmont Tench	4:36
20.	"You Wreck Me (Live)"	George Strait	5:16

Chart (2024)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[9]	84
US Top Compilation Albums (Billboard)^[9]	1

v t e Tom Petty
Discography Awards and nominations Songs
Studio albums	Full Moon Fever (1989) Wildflowers (1994) Highway Companion (2006)
Singles	"I Won't Back Down" "Runnin' Down a Dream" "Free Fallin'" "A Face in the Crowd" "Yer So Bad" "You Don't Know How It Feels" "You Wreck Me" "It's Good to Be King" "Saving Grace" "Somewhere Under Heaven"
Other songs	"Love Is a Long Road" "Wildflowers" "Time to Move On" "Square One" "Last Dance with Mary Jane"
Posthumous releases	An American Treasure (2018) The Best of Everything (2019) "Leave Virginia Alone" (2020) Wildflowers & All The Rest (2020)
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v t e Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty Mike Campbell Benmont Tench Ron Blair Stan Lynch Howie Epstein Scott Thurston Steve Ferrone
Studio albums	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers You're Gonna Get It! Damn the Torpedoes Hard Promises Long After Dark Southern Accents Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Into the Great Wide Open Songs and Music from "She's the One" Echo The Last DJ Mojo Hypnotic Eye
Live albums	Official Live 'Leg Pack Up the Plantation: Live! The Live Anthology Mojo Tour 2010 Kiss My Amps Kiss My Amps, Vol. 2 Live at the Fillmore 1997
Compilations	Greatest Hits Playback Anthology: Through the Years An American Treasure The Best of Everything
Videography	Pack Up the Plantation: Live! Hard to Handle w/ Bob Dylan Playback Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ Runnin' Down a Dream
Songs	"Breakdown" "American Girl" "Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll" "I Need to Know" "Listen to Her Heart" "Don't Do Me Like That" "Refugee" "Here Comes My Girl" "Even the Losers" "The Waiting" "A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)" "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" "You Got Lucky" "Change of Heart" "Don't Come Around Here No More" "Rebels" "Southern Accents" "Make It Better (Forget About Me)" "Needles and Pins "Jammin' Me" "Learning to Fly" "Into the Great Wide Open" "Something in the Air" "Mary Jane's Last Dance" "Walls (Circus)" "Change the Locks" "Free Girl Now" "Room at the Top" "Surrender" "The Last DJ" "I Should Have Known It"
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