Has anyone read Petty (by Warren Zanes)? Good info, but hard to read (I didn't like the style of writing by Zanes, took me a while to get through the book).
Interesting from the book, Mike Campbell (one of the Heartbreakers) wrote a lot of songs, made his own album once, and wrote the song "Boys of Summer". Petty didn't like the song and took a pass....Don Henley liked it and recorded it on a solo album. That song was (and still is) a huge hit. That could have been a Petty song.
And yes, it seems like Petty did his best to hide that he was a southerner. Rarely writing songs about anything to do w/ his childhood/growing up in North Central Florida.