Benmont Tench on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: ‘We Never Walked Through a Damn Thing in Our Lives’
Chris Willman Music WriterNo rock critic could ever deign to critique the significance of Tom Petty any better than Benmont Tench, whose objectivity about the late superstar’s creative prowess and personal appeal is not much besmirched by the fact that he put in more than four decades of service in Petty’s bands, the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch.