“And it felt good to do what he wanted and to follow through on his original idea.”ĭeluxe configurations go even further: Separate discs are devoted to Petty’s homemade demos, live recordings of the Wildflowers songs, and alternate takes from the studio sessions. “I know he really wanted it to be finished,” says Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell. As he had planned, it augments the original album with the excised songs, some in alternate versions from the ones heard on She’s the One. But on October 16th, three years after his passing, Petty’s wish will be fulfilled with a multidisc set, Wildflowers & All the Rest. In October 2017, he died from an accidental overdose of prescribed medications, including fentanyl. Petty would never live to see his dream project through. “We recorded quite a lot of songs and dug them out, and the songs are just so cool.” “We’re going to put out the songs from the other record as well,” he told RS excitedly. As Petty told Rolling Stone in an unpublished interview from 2013, “Lenny listened to it and said, ‘It’s great, but it’s too long - you need to cut it down.’ We were like, ‘Oh, man, we wanted a double album.’ ” Petty acquiesced, relegating roughly half the album to his archives, although a few of the outtakes (“California,” “Hung Up and Overdue”) would end up on the soundtrack of the 1996 Edward Burns rom-com She’s the One.Īround 2012, in the midst of working on a new Heartbreakers album ( Hypnotic Eye), Petty decided the time had come to finally release Wildflowers in its complete two-disc form. When Petty first submitted the 25-track Wildflowers to Warner Bros., the label, including then-President Lenny Waronker, suggested he trim it back to one disc. “It was a period when song after song was coming, which doesn’t always happen 20 years after your first release.”Įvery Super Bowl Halftime Show, Ranked From Worst to Best “He would always say, ‘That’s the best record we ever made,’” says Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench. With the help of producer Rick Rubin, the album became one of Petty’s most beloved albums, selling more than 3 million copies at the time, as well as one of his most sonically expansive works. Little from his musical past tugged at him more than Wildflowers, the 1994 solo album that contained some of his most intimate, relaxed, and revealing songs, from “You Don’t Know How It Feels” to the wispy title folk song. Home after a tour with the Heartbreakers, he had his wife, Dana, call up his rarely seen 2002 “Fun in the Desert” video, in which he tooled around a barren landscape on a mini-motorcycle, then asked her to track down a high school girlfriend on social media. During the last week of his life, Tom Petty grew unusually wistful.
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