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