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Episode 300 - Deep Cut Draft (with John Paulsen)

September 9, 2026 · 1 h 1 min

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For Episode 300, I figured we should do something a little special. So I called up my pal John Paulsen to combine the two things he does best; fantasty drafts and playlists!


We each had fifteen picks from the Tom Petty deep cuts catalogue. It's a big volume of songs! How did we decide what a "deep cut" is? Well, first of all, the song couldn't have charted on the Billboard 200 chart. Then, we limited it to any song that has fewer than 7,000,000 streams on Spotify (at time of recording). That still left us with a bucketload of songs to choose from! We included Mudcrutch and the Traveling Wilburys as well as Tom's solo and Heartbreakers output.


At the end of the episode we each had a fifteen song playlist and a broader thirty songs that we could present to a casual fan to entice them into exploring Tom's work futher.


This was an incredibly difficult process of whitling and regret!


As the NFL season is upon us - all your fantasy draft folks should really be following John and taking advantage of all sorts of offers for subscriptions to 4for4.com.


You can find John online on:

Twitter: https://x.com/4for4_John and

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/4for4-john.bsky.social


Don't forget to follow me on social media, like, subscribe, and please, leave a rating if you like the show.


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Listen: https://pod.link/1580769475


All music, including the theme song, provided by my very best friend Randy Woods. Check him out at https://www.randywoodsband.com


A special thanks to Paul Zollo. Without his book, "Conversations with Tom Petty", this podcast wouldn't be nearly as much fun to research.


The Tom Petty Project is not affiliated with the Tom Petty estate in any way.


Producer: Kevin Brown

Executive Producers: Paul Roberts, Steve Ursell

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