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Louisiana Rain
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Date Performance 1975-00-00
Running Time 4:23
Performers Tom Petty (Vocal), Tom Petty (Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lead Guitar), Al Kooper (Organ), Al Kooper (Piano), Jim Gordon (Drums), Emory Gordy(, Jr.) (Bass Guitar), Denny Cordell (Produced By)
CommentsRecorded at: Warner Brothers Recording Studio, Burbank, CA Recorded with the studio pros in the days between the end of Mudcrutch and the start of the Heartbreakers, this early version has slightly rawer words than what ended up on Damn the Torpedoes three years later, including the line, "It was just some mean old poison that I took up my nose." "The old version is a little tougher as a lyric," Petty says. "I think Jimmy Iovine really wanted me to tone that down a little bit, he was a little concerned about that verse. The funny thing is, when I go to play it I tend to remember the old verses, I don't remember what I changed it to, really." Iovine also disliked the reference to being taken in by "an aging boardwalk queen" and Petty changed it to "and it left it's mark on me."
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Playback (1995)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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2008-08-18