Benmont Tench

映画「ソング・サング・ブルー」の題材としても話題が再燃しているアメリカの国民的シンガー・ソングライターが、3枚目となるリック・ルービン制作のアルバムを発表。とはいえ録音は全米1位に輝いた『Home Be...

Benmont Tench doesn’t name his pianos as such, but he lovingly distinguishes each of the keyboards he plays on his latest album. “Mr Tench’s piano” is a Steinway B. So is “the Village Recorder’s piano” used in the eponymous studio. “Mr Wilson’s piano”, belonging to producer Jonathan Wilson, is a 1913 Steinway A3.

Through four decades of success, entertained audiences around the world. and now pay tribute to a man who defined . Petty died at age 66 after suffering cardiac arrest in his Malibu home. Throughout the show, Jim and Greg play excerpts from an exclusive Sound Opinions interview with Tom Petty from 2003. In the interview, Tom Petty discusses meeting as a child in and falling in love with . He also reminisces about hanging out with and , his idols and future bandmates in .