When Tom died a week later, it was just such a shocker." With "Crawling Back To You" embedded in Malin’s spirit, it resurfaced when he played it at Petty Fest-an annual tribute concert to Tom Petty whose proceeds go to charity. "Ironically, it turned out horribly that, sadly, that was his last gig ever.
"They’d always been an insanely great band, but there was some kind of magic there," he says. It was the best Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performance Malin had ever seen. Sometimes, with music, when people sing or say something that connects, it really lets you know you’re not alone and that you’re going to be all right." "When he sang that line in the beautiful California night with all the stars out, I don’t know why but it just hit me and I got a little chill. "I loved Wildflowers but I’d never focused on the words and the sentiment and the whole spirit of that song until I was at the Hollywood Bowl seeing them play," says Malin over the phone from his New York apartment where he’s been self-isolating for the last two months. While watching Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Hollywood Bowl in the fall of 2017-which tragically turned out to be their final concert due to Petty's untimely death a week later-New York singer/songwriter Jesse Malin was struck by the lyrics "most things I worry about never happen anyway" as Petty sang "Crawling Back To You" (from his '94 classic Wildflowers).
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