It hit Number One on the country charts and was nominated for two Grammys. Gold." To Earle, Van Zandt was "a really good teacher and really bad role model." His first album, 1986's Guitar Town, was a searing new take on rockabilly and country-rock. Van Zandt dropped in on one of his gigs at the Old Quarter and began heckling Earle, telling him to play the "The Wabash Cannonball." Instead, Earle played Van Zandt's "Mr. In Houston, Earle came face to face with Van Zandt. Earle moved to the city, where Townes Van Zandt was known to spend time, and began playing Sand Mountain Coffee House, which had a mural featuring Van Zandt, Guy Clark and Jerry Jeff Walker. He dropped out by 14, and often stayed with his uncle, Nick Fain, who was five years older and living in Houston. As a teen, he discovered Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Paul Simon and the Johnny Cash Show. He was barely a teenager, growing up in Schertz, Texas, looking over a copy of a Beatles Show More. They bring the timeless melodies, sweet rhythms, and wild rock music of Tom Petty to the stage for everyone to experience and fall in love with all over again.Įarle remembers exactly when he knew he wanted to be a songwriter. Playing the tunes 100% live with no backing-tracks of any kind, Southern Accents prides themselves on being the most accurate representation and faithful tribute to Tom Petty's music in the world today. From their uncanny resemblance to the original band and the way they move onstage, to the note-for-note, stunning recreations of Petty's music from throughout his entire catalog, each member of the band looks the part, plays the part, and LIVES the part the result is pure entertainment and songs so dedicated and true to the originals that you'd swear music-history was being made all over again right before your eyes and ears. of Tom Petty with immaculate precision and wildly contagious enthusiasm. Assembled from a team of talented ace-musicians from the Nashville studio and touring circuit, Southern Accents recreates the music, style, and sound Show More.
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