Kip Moore Covers Tom Petty : See 'Learning to Fly'
Tom Petty
It's hard to hear Kip Moore's emotional songs telling tales from the American heartland and not immediately think of  Tom Petty . And indeed   Petty  is one of Moore's treasured influences  listed  himself  as up there with some of country's greatest icons. "I've never been driven by having number one songs " Moore told Rolling Stone Country this summer. "I look to  Petty   Merle Haggard."
Related  Tom Petty 's 50 Greatest Songs  His  hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies  and  he  never stopped writing great music. Here's the definitive guide to  his  best songs
 Petty  died Monday after suffering cardiac arrest age at 66  and Moore  abroad on tour in the UK  worked up a cover of Petty's "Learning to Fly" on stage at the Ritz Manchester on Tuesday. Stripped down and full of Moore's raspy belt  the parallels to his newest LP  Slowheart  are clear. Like  Petty    he 's a rocker at heart with a keen understanding of the small town  American soul.
Moore also took to his Instagram yesterday to further discuss Petty's legacy. " Tom Petty  influenced so many in music  and I was definitely one of those "  he  wrote. "My buddy Tom Pritchett turned me on to his music when I was about 15. He had a low riding Honda prelude that had a stereo system I've yet to see matched and he would crank this song as loud as it would go... we felt like kings riding those back roads and  Petty  was the reason for that feeling."
A dedicated fan  Moore's been covering  Petty  for years: he's also offered live versions of "Free Fallin'" and "I Won't Back Down."
It's hard to hear Kip Moore's emotional songs telling tales from the American heartland and not immediately think of  [TGT]  . And indeed    [TGT] is one of Moore's treasured influences  listed   [TGT]   as up there with some of country's greatest icons. "I've never been driven by having number one songs " Moore told Rolling Stone Country this summer. "I look to  Petty   Merle Haggard."
Related  Tom Petty 's 50 Greatest Songs  His  hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies  and  he  never stopped writing great music. Here's the definitive guide to  his  best songs
  [TGT] died Monday after suffering cardiac arrest age at 66  and Moore  abroad on tour in the UK  worked up a cover of Petty's "Learning to Fly" on stage at the Ritz Manchester on Tuesday. Stripped down and full of Moore's raspy belt  the parallels to his newest LP  Slowheart  are clear. Like  Petty    he 's a rocker at heart with a keen understanding of the small town  American soul.
Moore also took to his Instagram yesterday to further discuss Petty's legacy. "  [TGT] influenced so many in music  and I was definitely one of those "   [TGT]   wrote. "My buddy Tom Pritchett turned me on to his music when I was about 15. He had a low riding Honda prelude that had a stereo system I've yet to see matched and he would crank this song as loud as it would go... we felt like kings riding those back roads and   [TGT] was the reason for that feeling."
A dedicated fan  Moore's been covering   [TGT] for years: he's also offered live versions of "Free Fallin'" and "I Won't Back Down."