Two of country music's brightest new stars combined forces to annihilate the Tom Petty classic, "Free Fallin'."
In February, at the Ryman Auditorium, GRAMMY winner, Chris Stapleton, and Maren Morris performed the classic rock song to a crowd that was more than happy to join in and turn the powerful ballad into a sing-along...
And we all thought Tom Petty did an amazing job with the original. Kris Kristofferson not only covered one of the Heart Breaker's most famous songs, he did the song justice; and made it, the proverbial, his own.
Country singer Jake Owen is a fan of Tom Petty. Just like Petty, Owen grew up in Florida, and he was greatly influenced by the rock legend's music. But after hearing his comments about the state of modern country music, Owen had to make his hurt feelings known.
Back in May, Tom Petty used the stage of the Beacon Theater in New York City to voice his displeasure of what country music has evolved into when he called the country music of today "bad rock with a fiddle". Rather than backing down from those comments in a recent interview, Petty took the opportunity to elaborate his point.