Tom Petty – Wildflowers (3LP Vinyl)
Warner Records (1994 / This Pressing 2020)
$120.00
Brand New ~ Sealed! At Last, Tom Petty’s Mesmerising ‘Wildflowers’ On Three 180 Gram Vinyl LPs ~ Featuring Previously Unreleased Songs! Packaged In Deluxe Trifold Cover.
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Brand New ~ Sealed! At Last, Tom Petty’s Mesmerising ‘Wildflowers’ On Three 180 Gram Vinyl LPs ~ Featuring Previously Unreleased Songs! Packaged In Deluxe Trifold Cover.
During Tom Petty’s final interview with the Los Angeles Times, as the triumphant 40th anniversary tour with The Heartbreakers was coming to an end, he announced that his next big focus would be to finally revisit his 1994 masterpiece, ‘Wildflowers’, co-produced with Rick Rubin and Mike Campbell. ‘Wildflowers’ in many ways changed Tom’s creative life – as a recording artist, collaborator and band leader – while a profound, personal crisis transformed the stories and emotional thrust in his songs. Tom ultimately wrote more songs than he could release at the time. In fact, Tom, Rubin and Campbell completed the album as a double CD with 25 songs, nearly two hours of music, but his label advised restraint. Released on November 1, 1994, ‘Wildflowers’ – a single CD with 15 songs, still more than an hour in length – was Tom’s most acutely confessional album to date. The resurrection of ‘Wildflowers’ has been a long time coming. In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone Tom detailed his plans for the reissue, telling the magazine, “I broke through to something else. My personal life came crashing down, and it derailed me for a while. But I was at the top of my game during that record.” Then again in 2016 on SiriusXM’s Tom Petty Radio, he discussed his desire for a ‘Wildflowers’ tour to coincide with a reissue. Tom had always intended to release the second half of the album, a collection he named ‘All The Rest’, featuring ten songs from the ‘Wildflowers’ recording sessions that were left off the original version and five unreleased tracks (different versions of four other songs would appear on the soundtrack to the 1996 film, ‘She’s The One’). Tom’s vision of the project is becoming a reality due to the commitment of his loving family, bandmates and collaborators who helped unearth many previously unheard gems. The compilation was curated by Tom’s daughters, Adria and Annakim Petty, and was produced by Tom’s long-time engineer and co-producer Ryan Ulyate.
Side 1:
Wildflowers
You Don’t Know How It Feels
Time To Move On
You Wreck Me
Side 2:
It’s Good To Be King
Only A Broken Heart
Honey Bee
Don’t Fade On Me
Side 3:
Hard On Me
Cabin Down Below
To Find A Friend
A Higher Place
Side 4:
House In The Woods
Crawling Back To You
Wake Up Time
ALL THE REST:
Side 5:
Something Could Happen
Leave Virginia Alone
Climb That Hill Blues
Confusion Wheel
California
Side 6:
Harry Green
Hope You Never
Somewhere Under Heaven
Climb That Hill
Hung Up And Overdue
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Wildflowers captures the full range of Tom Petty as a singer, songwriter, and rocker. Following a half-decade of collaborations with the ornate Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty decided it was time to strip things back for 1994's Wildflowers. He swapped Lynne for Rick Rubin, the Def Jam founder who started cultivating a production career outside of hip-hop and metal in the early 1990s, then hunkered down with a team of musicians anchored by his longtime lieutenants Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench. Together, they achieved a sound that was lean and sinewy, fulfilling the goal of getting Petty back to the basics, but the singer/songwriter wrote too much material for a single album. After toying with the idea of releasing a double CD, Petty whittled Wildflowers down to a single disc that ran the length of a double album, a considerable indulgence for a rocker who usually restrained himself to a tight 40 minutes (or, on the case of the first two Heartbreakers albums, a quick half hour). The extra space allows Petty to stretch out and breathe, to spend as much time strumming sun-kissed folk tunes as he does rambling through ramshackle rockers and heavy-footed blues. The Heartbreakers specialized in clean, efficient rock & roll, and while this solo project echoes their sound -- how could it not with Campbell and Tench aboard -- Wildflowers is distinguished by its casual gait. Whether it's the highway anthem "You Wreck Me" or the stoner shrug of "You Don't Know How It Feels," the performances benefit from this space to breathe, while the larger canvas helps steer attention to the character sketch of "To Find a Friend," the sardonic wit of "It's Good to Be King," and the bittersweet undercurrent of "Crawling Back to You." Other, earlier albums provide a greater rock & roll wallop, but thanks to its extra space, Wildflowers captures the full range of Tom Petty as a singer, songwriter, and rocker.