After Miley performed the late Tom Petty‘s “Wildflowers” on Stern Show, the 24-year-old “Malibu” pop singer brought the cover to the stage of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon alongside her dad for a touching rendition of the song.
“To me, Tom Petty represented a kind of songwriting I idolized: complex simplicity,” she said.
“It said so much in the lyrics, the concepts, the stories, the message, the nuances…but always brought you back to a hook that got stuck in everyone’s head. He motivated thousands of guitarists to learn to play just because they wanted to be able to play ‘Free Fallin.” Count me as one of them.”
