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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers extend road trip into July
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have turned what was originally planned as a brief spring outing into a full-scale U.S. tour with the addition of a second leg of dates that extends into late July. The jaunt kicks off on Wednesday night (5/9) in Oregon.
The tour was initially plotted as a 15-date run of the western U.S. to help the group warm up for subsequent studio sessions. The newly added second leg, which gets underway in late June, focuses on the eastern U.S.
The Wallflowers are slated to open the first eight dates of Petty’s tour, and Steve Earle and the Dukes are set to open the subsequent seven dates. No information on support act(s) for the new dates was available at press time.
Online pre-sales for several of the new dates are set to begin on Wednesday (5/9), Thursday (5/10) and Friday (5/11), according to ArtistDirect's Tom Petty pre-sale web page.
The Heartbreakers' touring lineup will include Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont Tench (keys), Howie Epstein (bass), Steve Ferrone (drums) and Scott Thurston (guitar, keys).
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' most recent studio album is the April 1999 release "Echo" (Warner Bros.), which debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
