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Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Ron Blair and Stan Lynch shared a stage at the 25th Americana Honors & Awards, with Chris Stapleton singing “American Girl.” Campbell says nobody will be filling Tom Petty’s shoes.

Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Stan Lynch and Ron Blair open the 25th Americana Honors & Awards together, with Chris Stapleton standing where Tom Petty once did. It is the band’s first full performance under the Heartbreakers name since Petty’s death in 2017.

Seventeen shows are gone, starting with Friday night in Davenport and ending with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco. Here is what the band actually said, what it did not say, and where the reporting disagrees.