Kurt Vile | photo by Jo McCaughey | courtesy of the artist
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Watch Kurt Vile cover Tom Petty’s “Learning To Fly” in a Sirius XMU session
Kurt Vile | photo by Jo McCaughey | courtesy of the artist
Whether you can hear it or not (and it definitely took me a minute), Kurt Vile has always been a huge Tom Petty fan, and takes any opportunity he gets to sing his praises. And sometimes, actually sing his songs. In a new acoustic session recorded for SiriusXMU, Vile puts his spacey drum machine stamp on “Learning to Fly” from Petty’s 1991 album Into the Great Wide Open. Give it a watch below, and catch Kurt Vile at The Met Philly on December 29th; tickets and more information on the show can be found here.