Skip to content

Ankle Deep

June 3, 2026 · 23 min

Show notes

Let’s talk about the lyrics to this one first. Tom goes on to say “You don’t have a lot of room to write a story in a song. So you have to be economical with your lines.” and we’ve remarked on that on so many occasions with Tom’s story songs - he usually gives us brief flashes of narrative before either zooming out, changing the POV or switching to a characters thoughts rather than their actions. This one is a pretty tight, compact three act play though and Tom’s economy works really well.


Song : https://youtu.be/OGWiNlHXiYQ


ADDITIONAL LINKS

Judge Timbers' tutorial: https://youtu.be/PwACALHy878


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


Follow: https://linktr.ee/tompettyproject

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

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-tom-petty-project.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All episodes of The Tom Petty Project

Settings

Display

Language

Decides which stations you see first on the home page.

History

Recently played stations and episodes and your latest searches are only stored in this browser.

Notifications

A short notice when a podcast you follow has a new episode. Turn off single podcasts with the bell on their page.

Account

Save favorites – in the app and on the website.

Keyboard shortcuts

/
Open search
Space
Play or pause
← →
In the player: back 15 s, forward 30 s (episodes) · in a row: next tile
↑ ↓
In a row: target within the tile
Home / End
In a row: first or last tile
Esc
Close window or menu
?
This overview
Now playing

Go to station page

Play next

    Add episodes with “Play next” – they play after the current episode.