Vince Vaughn‘s AppleTV+ series “Bad Monkey” has almost wrapped up its first season, and the soundtrack, with an impressive list of artists covering Tom Petty‘s music, is officially out today.
Vince Vaughn stars as a former detective in black comedy series “Bad Monkey”. Based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen, the series follows former police detective turned restaurant inspector Andrew Yancy (Vaughn) who is pulled into a world of greed and corruption after a tourist finds a severed arm while fishing.
We’d already heard renditions of Petty’s songs from Eddie Vedder, Larkin Poe, Fitz & The Tantrums, flipturn, The War on Drugs, Jason Isbell, and Kurt Vile from it, and now you can hear the rest, including Sharon Van Etten‘s take on “I Won’t Back Down,” Weezer‘s version of “Here Comes My Girl,” also Nathaniel Rateliff‘s rendition of “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” Stephen Marley‘s cover of “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” and more.
Vedder also did a solo take on Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” playing a guitar Petty had given him, at Pearl Jam’s Philadelphia show last month,
Jason Isbell included a rendition of Petty’s “Room at the Top” on his new live album, “Live From The Ryman Vol. 2”, which is also out today. Isbell’s contribution is “You’re Gonna Get It,” which, accordingly is not one of the eleven Petty covers that Isbell has performed live over the years. As you might expect, Jason nails a perfect balance between staying faithful to the original and making it his own.
Sharon Van Etten, meanwhile, did a fantastic cover of “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” with Shearwater for the AV Club in 2012.
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