He’ll release a new album, Lust for Love, sometime in 2021. Malin recorded his version of “Crawling Back to You” as a B side to his new single, “Backstabbers” (out via Little Steven’s Wicked Cool Records), and filmed himself in L.A. He didn’t dance, he didn’t have movie-star looks and, most importantly, he couldn’t stand music videos. So I started playing that song a whole bunch.” Tom Petty, who died October 2nd at the age of 66, was not your typical MTV figurehead. “That night under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl, he went into ‘Crawling Back to You,’ and the last verse - ‘Most things I worry about/Never happen anyway’ - he just leaves that line hanging in the air. “I’d seen him before, but this was like magic,” Malin told Rolling Stone during an interview for his latest album, Sunset Kids. Malin saw Petty perform the song at the Hollywood Bowl in 2017 - at what would be Petty’s final show. One of the highlights of Jesse Malin’s quarantined livestream series, The Fine Art of Self-Distancing, has been his cover of Tom Petty’s “Crawling Back to You,” a track off of Petty’s 1994 LP, Wildflowers.
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