New Orleans JazzFest Photos & Recap

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    New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

    New Orleans, LA

    April 30, 2017

     

    Torrential rains, high winds, tornadoes and flooding couldn’t stop Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers from their triumphant return to the 2017 edition of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, their second appearance at JazzFest in the band’s storied 40-year career.

    “Swingin’,” off 1999’s Echo, made its tour debut in New Orleans, sandwiched in between killer takes on “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” and “You Don’t Know How It Feels.”

    “Well, we’re in New Orleans at the JazzFest,” Tom said after the band wound down “Free Fallin’,” “and we thought we ought to play a slow blues for y’all.”

    And with that, Tom and the guys launched into a scorching “Good Enough,” the second tour debut of the show. This version of the monster track off 2010’s Mojo was huge, with Mike Campbell’s song-closing epic guitar solo riding over the top of Scott Thurston and Tom’s intertwining guitar riffs.

     

    Rockin’ Around With You

    Mary Jane’s Last Dance

    Swingin’

    You Don’t Know How It Feels

    Forgotten Man

    You Got Lucky

    I Won’t Back Down

    Free Fallin’

    Good Enough

    Don’t Come Around Here No More

    It’s Good To Be King

    Crawling Back to You

    Wildflowers

    Learning to Fly

    Yer So Bad

    I Should Have Known It

    Refugee

    Runnin’ Down A Dream

    American Girl

     

     

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