Tom Petty / 'Reservation Dogs' Co-Creator Sterlin Harjo

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

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We're revisiting our interview with Tom Petty, whose hits include "American Girl," "Breakdown," and "I Won't Back Down." The soundtrack of the new Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey is all Tom Petty covers. He spoke with Terry Gross in 2006.

Sterlin Harjo, co-creator of the Peabody award-winning FX/Hulu TV series Reservation Dogs, is a 2024 recipient of the MacAathur "genius" award. Reservation Dogs is about a group of teenagers living on reservation in rural Oklahoma. Harjo is a member of the Muscogee and Seminole Nations and spoke with Terry in 2022.

Justin Chang reviews the new film Anora by Sean Baker, director of Tangerine and The Florida Project.

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0:24.0	This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.
0:26.0	If you've been watching the Apple TV Plus series Bad Monkey,
0:30.0	you've heard some great covers of Tom Petty songs like this one.
0:34.0	Well I won't back down.
0:37.0	No I won't back down.
0:41.0	He can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down. No, I'll stay in my ground won't be turned around.
0:59.0	And I'll keep this world from dragging me down gonna stand my ground and I won't back down.
1:10.0	Hey, baby. That's easy Van Etton.
1:25.0	Tom Petty led the band The Heartbreakers, whose other hits include American
1:31.2	girl, listen to her heart, running Down a Dream, and Break Down.
1:35.8	The band's Classic 1982 album, Long After Dark, was recently reissued.
1:41.3	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll issued. the band The Traveling Woolberries from 88 to 90, Petty performed with several artists he admired,
1:56.0	like Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and Roy Orbison.
2:00.0	Tom Petty died in 2017 at the age of 66.
2:04.0	Let's listen to a portion of the interview Terry recorded with him in 2006
2:09.0	when he had released a solo album of songs called Highway Companion. At the time he was hosting his own
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