![]() ![]() Petty didn’t quite know what to do with the Wildflowers outtakes when the record was trimmed down to a single disc. Several of the outtakes were included on the soundtrack to the 1996 film She’s the One. But I’m guessing they just weren’t as good.”Ģ. I can’t remember what Paul Simon record or what Paul McCartney record came out around that time. “When you think of the great songwriters, they weren’t making great albums at that point. “I think the reason I was surprised has to do with the idea of a grown-up making a good record,” he told Petty biographer Warren Zanes. To producer Rick Rubin, the album’s sturdiness was a shock. and peaking at Number Eight on the Top 200. ![]() Wildflowers was enormously successful, selling 3 million copies in the U.S. The songs range from reflective ballads - like the title track and “Time to Move On” - to fiery rockers like “You Wreck Me” and “Honey Bee.” But all of them are the work of a mature artist who was deep into a career resurgence that began five years earlier with his first solo record, Full Moon Fever. “And that one I think I’m most happy with. “That was where I was really at the top of my game as far as craft and inspiration colliding at the same moment,” he told Paul Zollo in 2005. “I probably haven’t even told the band about this yet,” Petty said in 2016, “but they can read about it in Rolling Stone.” His focus on the LP is easy to understand song-for-song, it is perhaps Petty’s single greatest achievement. In the final years of his life, Tom Petty spoke often about his plan to re-release his 1994 masterpiece Wildflowers as a double album and then play it straight through on a special tour.
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