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Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:

"I’ve never made any bones about it. I think Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were the greatest Rock & Roll Band the United States Of America has ever produced."

Wow. Better than The Hawks/The Band (though composed of only one American and four Canadians, I consider the U.S.A. responsible for their formation)? Better than NRBQ, and The Byrds? And Los Lobos? As I consider Marty and his band The Fabulous Superlatives the current best band in the world, his opinions carry a lot of weight with me.

Okay, maybe I’ve been wrong about TP & TH. ;-)
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orgillian197
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As much as I enjoy Petty’s music, in terms of quality, the 3 American Bands (sorry, as much as I admire The Band, they’re not American) I’d submit are, in no particular order, Los Lobos, Little Feat and, on the great nights, the Grateful Dead.

The reason I would put these ahead of Petty is that when I listen to his music I really like the best tunes but am really bored with the others. Don’t have that problem with Lobos or Feat and can get there without too much pruning with the Dead.
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