Last Friday, a career-spanning box set called An American Treasure was released delving into the work of Tom Petty, in time for the one-year anniversary of the venerable rocker’s death on Oct. 2.

Unlike most retrospectives, An American Treasure largely eschews hits in order to illuminate some of the lesser known corners of Petty’s music. But does this approach serve the man who wrote some of the best rock singles ever?

I called up Steve Kandell, a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in Spin, Pitchfork and Buzzfeed, to talk about An American Treasure, and how our perceptions of Petty have changed (and in some cases improved) in the time since he passed.

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