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A Higher Place: Tom Petty’s ‘Wildflowers & All The Rest’ Arrives In Multiple Formats This Fall

August 20, 2020 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Wildflowers All The Rest

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Let’s get to the point, let’s roll another joint: the late, great Tom Petty’s solo masterpiece Wildflowers will be revisited in a series of reissues out October 16.

Wildflowers & All The Rest rounds up the original 1994 album alongside several bonus discs of outtakes and rarities. A standard 2CD/3LP edition adds 10 unheard tracks – intended for a much longer edition of the album at the time – while a 4CD/7LP deluxe box adds two volumes of solo home recordings and live cuts. A super deluxe edition adds an additional CD or 2 LPs of alternate recordings, labeled “Finding Wildflowers“; a limited “ultra deluxe” vinyl box includes all 9 LPs plus “an exclusive unique unisex necklace–hand-made by Maria Sarno in a faux suede pouch, an exclusive lyric book with the illustrations by Blaze Ben Brooks, an exclusive 7″ of ‘You Don’t Know How It Feels,’ packaged in a custom fabric bag with a metal Wildflowers logo as the closure—designed and made by Los Angeles-based Made Worn.” (It’s limited to 475 copies and available exclusively at Petty’s website. The super deluxe vinyl will also only be sold there as well.)

The sessions to Wildflowers found Petty collaborating for the first of three albums with producer Rick Rubin. Recorded with many of the members of The Heartbreakers (including drummer Steve Ferrone, who’d replace Stan Lynch the following year) as well as several big-name contributors (Ringo Starr sat behind the drum kit for “To Find a Friend,” while “Honey Bee” featured vocals by Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, the album was nonetheless credited to Petty alone. “Rick and I both wanted more freedom than to be strapped into five guys,” he later said.

Despite a barrage of personal trials at the time – including the collapse of his first marriage and a subsequent struggle with drug addiction – and a late decision to pare down the running time of the album into a still-respectable 62 minutes, fans and critics felt the material was some of his best. It became Petty’s seventh Top 10 album in the U.S., and lead single “You Don’t Know How It Feels” reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. (The track also took home a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.)

Most significantly, revisiting Wildflowers became one of Petty’s most personal, final projects. In 2014, three years before his passing and as he finalized his last album, Hypnotic Eye, Petty described some of the outtakes he found to Rolling Stone including “Somewhere Under Heaven,” released as a single in 2015. Gradually, additional songs were released from the vault, including “Lonesome Dave” off the An American Treasure box set – though plans were put on hold until a lawsuit between Petty’s daughters, Adria and Annakim, and his widow Dana, was settled in 2019. A demo of “You Don’t Know How It Feels” was issued in June.

Wildflowers & All The Rest was curated by Adria, Annakim and Dana Petty in collaboration with Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench of The Heartbreakers and longtime engineer Ryan Ulyate. The deluxe editions feature a new introduction by Rubin, liner notes by David Fricke and track-by-track notes by Jaan Uhelszki, featuring input from Rubin, Ulyate, Campbell, Tench, Ferrone, album engineer Jim Scott and live mixing engineer Robert Scovill. Each format will be available October 16, with pre-order links to both Amazon (and the Petty store-exclusive editions) live now.

Wildflowers & All The Rest (Warner Records, 2020)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4CD Deluxe Edition (above plus Home Recordings & Wildflowers Live): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
7LP Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
5CD Super Deluxe Edition (above plus Finding Wildflowers): TomPetty.com
9LP Super Deluxe Edition: TomPetty.com
9LP Ultra Deluxe Edition: TomPetty.com

CD 1/LP 1-2: Wildflowers – The Original Album (Warner Bros. Records 45759, 1994)

  1. Wildflowers
  2. You Don’t Know How It Feels
  3. Time to Move On
  4. You Wreck Me
  5. It’s Good to Be King
  6. Only a Broken Heart
  7. Honey Bee
  8. Don’t Fade on Me
  9. Hard on Me
  10. Cabin Down Below
  11. To Find a Friend
  12. A Higher Place
  13. House in the Woods
  14. Crawling Back to You
  15. Wake Up Time

CD 2/LP 3: All The Rest

  1. Something Could Happen
  2. Leaving Virginia Alone
  3. Climb That Hill Blues
  4. Confusion Wheel
  5. California
  6. Harry Green
  7. Hope You Never
  8. Somewhere Under Heaven
  9. Climb That Hill
  10. Hung Up and Overdue
Wildflowers All The Rest Deluxe

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CD 3/LP 4-5: Home Recordings

  1. There Goes Angela (Dream Away)
  2. You Don’t Know How It Feels
  3. California
  4. A Feeling of Peace
  5. Leave Virginia Alone
  6. Crawling Back to You
  7. Don’t Fade on Me
  8. Confusion Wheel
  9. A Higher Place
  10. There’s a Break in the Rain (Have Love Will Travel)
  11. To Find a Friend
  12. Only a Broken Heart
  13. Wake Up Time
  14. Hung Up and Overdue
  15. Wildflowers

CD 4/LP 6-7: Wildflowers Live

  1. You Don’t Know How It Feels
  2. Honey Bee
  3. To Find a Friend
  4. Walls
  5. Crawling Back to You
  6. Cabin Down Below
  7. Drivin’ Down to Georgia
  8. House in the Woods
  9. Girls on LSD
  10. Time to Move On
  11. Wake Up Time
  12. It’s Good to Be King
  13. You Wreck Me
  14. Wildflowers

CD 5/LP 8-9: Alternate Versions (Finding Wildflowers)

  1. A Higher Place
  2. Hard on Me
  3. Cabin Down Below
  4. Crawling Back to You
  5. Only a Broken Heart
  6. Drivin’ Down to Georgia
  7. You Wreck Me
  8. It’s Good to Be King
  9. House in the Woods
  10. Honey Bee
  11. Girl on LSD
  12. Cabin Down Below (Acoustic Version)
  13. Wildflowers
  14. Wake Up Time
  15. You Saw Me Comin’

Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Jim says

    August 20, 2020 at 2:09 pm

    Finally!

    Reply
  2. wardo says

    August 20, 2020 at 2:10 pm

    So basically, $100 for “Girl On LSD”. McCartney-level marketing.

    Reply
    • Reed says

      August 20, 2020 at 10:43 pm

      Yeah, exactly what I thought. I’m starting buy less and stream more because of this BS but Petty is a priority.

      Reply
  3. Earl Cambron says

    August 20, 2020 at 2:55 pm

    Great news! The 4-Disc Deluxe seems reasonably priced. At least you get “Girl On LSD” as a live track.

    Reply
  4. Bill says

    August 20, 2020 at 2:58 pm

    Maybe they can turn their attention to upgrading the earliest Tom Petty albums. They are due.

    Reply
    • John F says

      August 20, 2020 at 4:02 pm

      That’s what I’m waiting for.

      Reply
  5. Bruce Padgett says

    August 20, 2020 at 5:22 pm

    And will the CDs continue to be mastered loud (unlike their vinyl counterparts), per Tom’s instructions? If so I’ll only spring for the two disc version, just for some of the extra material. With respect to the artist, I find it frustrating when sound quality is intentionally dumbed down.

    Reply
  6. Justin says

    August 20, 2020 at 8:22 pm

    Wasn’t “Dreams of Flying” from Mudcrutch 2 supposedly a Wildflowers leftover?

    Reply
  7. Rob Maurer says

    August 20, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    I’ve been waiting for this forever…but that $149 price tag for the 5 CD edition is putting me way off. And Disc 5 (along with Disc 2) is really all I want.

    Grrrr…

    Reply
  8. Joseph Donato says

    August 21, 2020 at 12:57 pm

    Tom Petty’s best album and one of my favorites. At first I was thinking that I could be happy with the 2CD set, but since An American Treasure and Playback had such great outtakes, demos, etc., I will splurge on the 4CD set.

    Reply
  9. Robert says

    August 22, 2020 at 12:32 pm

    Ordered the four disc. $100 more for a fifth disc (production of which is like $1) seems like a ridiculous stretch. Now waiting for the announcement of the much-rumored Beach Boys set that starts diving into the 70’s vault material.

    Reply

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