Country singer and The Voice judge Blake Shelton has collaborated with Eagles’ Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, alongside former Guns N’ Roses member Matt Sorum, for a cover of Tom Petty’s defiant 1989 song I Won’t Back Down.

While Shelton takes charge of vocals, Walsh and Shmit cover guitar and bass duties with Sorum on the drums. For the cover, the vocalist deals up a wholesome serving of Southern country twang supported by light and airy guitar tones from Walsh.

The star-studded collaboration was orchestrated in aid of Miraculous Love Kids, a non-profit charity whose focus is “to teach the guitar to war-torn, poverty-stricken children, in particular young girls who have little to no rights and are often forced into marriage and face the most extreme forms of violence.”

The new cover of I Won’t Back Down is available to hear at goodnoise.io, a music and arts platform/label founded by Matt Sorum, that works on connecting artists with “impact-related causes that are relevant to the world today”. Music is not only medicine for the mind, but I believe it can truly help heal the world, one great song at a time! Find out how you can support the cause here: Blake Shelton Teams With Rock Veterans to Cover Tom Petty’s ‘I Won’t Back Down’ (yahoo.com)