Tom Petty wrote “American Girl” during the mid-1970s, while living in a rented apartment in Encino, California. He was a newcomer to the West Coast, having left his hometown of Gainesville, Florida, one year earlier to chase down a record deal in Los Angeles. It was the American highway system that brought him all the way […]
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