If you\u2019re still looking for something to fill that Tom Petty-sized hole in your heart, may I suggest Langhorne Slim?<\/p>\n
Langhorne \u2014 who was born Sean Scolnick and plays the High Noon Saloon<\/a> on Saturday night with The Lost at Last Band\u00a0\u2014 has spent much of his multi-decade career creating music with a kind of timeless, cross-generational appeal that approximately 40,000 stomp-and-clap folk outfits have tried for in recent years. Many of his songs sound like they could have been written by anyone from Bob Dylan to Petty to Jason Isbell, which is a testament to Scolnick\u2019s talent.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s the Petty comparison that\u2019s most apt for Scolnick, who recently participated in this year\u2019s Bonnaroo SuperJam<\/a>, a tribute to Petty called \u201cInto the Great Wide Open.\u201d<\/p>\n Put together by by My Morning Jacket\u2019s Patrick Hallahan, the SuperJam featured a host of artists paying their respects to the late rocker. Some seemed like a given, like Scolnick or Sheryl Crow or Rayland Baxter. But some felt kind of out-there, like dream-pop upstarts Japanese Breakfast or Sameer Gadhia, who fronts the shimmering alt-pop act Young the Giant.<\/p>\n