Spoon has revealed two Tom Petty covers, recorded earlier this year at the Catacomb in Austin, Texas.
In the video above, Britt Daniel grooves through “Breakdown” from Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1976 debut album. They scale it back for Full Moon Fever‘s “A Face in the Crowd” (below), with Daniel shifting to acoustic guitar. Spoon performed “Breakdown” last fall for a virtual festival celebrating the late frontman’s birthday, while Daniel played both tracks in early March as a guest DJ on Sirius XM’s Tom Petty channel.
Last fall, they spoke with Rolling Stone‘s Simon Vozick-Levinson about their follow-up to 2017’s Hot Thoughts, which was halted by the pandemic. “This is definitely the longest we’ve ever spent on a record,” Daniel said. “It’s so far along, and yet so far away.”
From Rolling Stone US