Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Into The Great Wide Open (1991)

Tom Petty is one of those guys I always took for granted until it was too late. His music was just always there, wherever you went, so the thought of actually pulling out a Tom Petty album and playing it through never really occurred to me. Pretty much since I started my pre-teen indoctrination into rock & roll, Petty's music was always being played on the radio, or in the restaurant, or at camp, or wherever I happened to be at any given moment. 1979's Damn The Torpedoes, which arrived when I wa...