Tom Petty album and tour news!!!

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Originally Posted by Livia

TOM'S HEADLINING THE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL!

Pearl Jam, Trey Anastasia, The Allman Brothers Band and Others
Will Appear
on Selected Dates

Los Angeles, CA - Thursday, April 20, 2006 -- Tom Petty & the
Heartbreakers
will embark on their 2006 North American "Highway Companions
Tour" on June 9
in Charlotte, N.C. The band will be joined along the way by an
exciting
list of friends and guests that will include a series of very
special shows
with Pearl Jam, some shows with special guest Trey Anastasio,
and others
with the Allman Brothers Band. Expect further announcements
soon of
additional special guests and opening acts who will be on
selected dates.

As part of their summer tour, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers -
Petty/vocals,
guitars, Mike Campbell/guitars, Benmont Tench/keyboards, Ron
Blair/bass,
Scott Thurston/guitars, harmonica, backing vocals, and Steve
Ferrone/drums -
will headline the Bonnaroo Festival on Friday, June 16, and the
Austin City
Limits Festival on Sunday, September 17.

Petty is putting the finishing touches on his third solo album,
"Highway
Companion," which is produced by Jeff Lynne with Tom Petty and
Mike
Campbell, and will be released this summer.

Academy Award-winning director/screenwriter Peter Bogdanovich
("The Last
Picture Show," "Paper Moon," "Mask") has started working on a
comprehensive
feature film/documentary about the band's three-decades-long
history. Given
unparalleled access to the band, Bogdanovich will intertwine
vintage
interviews, videos and live performances with special footage
that he began
shooting late last year. "We shot New Year's Eve at Mike
Campbell's house,"
said Bogdanovich. "We've gone into the studio with Tom while he
did
voice-overs for his 'King of The Hill' role, recorded his XM
Satellite radio
show, we'll be there when he headlines Bonnaroo, and we've
already started
to conduct new interviews with Tom, the band, with long-time
associates,
journalists, and other people who have played a role during the
past thirty
years.

"I want to tell this very American story about a small family of
musicians
who jumped in a car, left Gainesville and drove cross-country to
get into
the record business," explained Bogdanovich. "How they did it,
what
happened to them as a result, how this affected their families
and friends,
and the impact their music has had on the music industry and on
millions of
people's lives. We'll take you through it all, the early
Shelter Records
days, touring with Bob Dylan, the Grammys and other awards, the
Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame induction, working with Johnny Cash in the
recording
studio, and the Traveling Wilburys." No title or release
information has
been set.

Last summer's Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' tour proved to be
one of the
band's most successful in their long career. Without a new CD
to promote,
they played to sell-out crowds totaling more than 750,000 fans;
Rolling
Stone's glowing article on the success of the tour prompted the
headline
"Tom Petty Rules the Road," and Joel Selvin of the San Francisco
Chronicle
declared, "Tom Petty is rock aristocracy."

Over the past thirty years, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers have
sold more
than 50-million records and been nominated for 16 Grammy Awards.
The band
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, the
first year
they were eligible, and this past December, Green Day's Billy
Joe Armstrong
presented Petty with the Billboard Century Award at the
Billboard Music
Awards saying, "If you're going to come up and thank god, thank
god for Tom
Petty." In this 2006 season, Petty reprises his ongoing role as
"Lucky" on
the long-running Fox animated TV series "King of the Hill," and
he is in the
middle of the second season of his critically acclaimed XM
Satellite Radio
Show, "Tom Petty's Buried Treasure."

The confirmed first leg is below; dates for leg two (July/August
with the
Allman Brothers Band) and leg three (September/October) will be
announced
shortly.

JUNE
9 Verizon Amphitheatre, Charlotte, N.C. (w/ Trey
Anastasio)
10 Nissan Pavilion, Bristow, VA (w/ Trey Anastasio)
12 Harbor Center, Portsmouth, VA (w/ Trey Anastasio)
14 Polaris Amphitheatre, Columbus, OH (w/ Trey
Anastasio)
16 Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester, TN
17 UMB Bank Pavilion, Louis, MO (w/ Trey Anastasio)
20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (w/ Trey
Anastasio)
21 Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA (w/ Trey Anastasio)
23 Verizon Amphitheatre, Indianapolis, IN (w/ Trey
Anastasio)
26-27 Xcel Center, St. Paul, MN (w/ Pearl Jam)
29-30 Marcus Amphitheatre, Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI (w/
Pearl Jam)

JULY
2-3 Pepsi Center, Denver, CO (with Pearl Jam)
BREAK

Great, so I have to sit out in the 110 degree heat with 80% humidity and no shade to see him? They need to move ACL to late Fall or early Spring, and I don't care if SXSW is in March! I say two spring festivals would be great!