Venerated drummer Steve Ferrone assumes the role of founding Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch, providing the elemental boom-crack of “You Don’t Know How it Feels” and setting its deceptively relaxed vibe. Tench’s understated piano on “Crawling Back to You” attains elegant and soulful perfection, while bassist Howie Epstein provides warm harmony vocals. The songs are the star attraction of Wildflowers, but Petty’s bandmates and collaborators shine. “ Most things that I worry about never happen anyway,” sings Petty during “Crawling Back to You.” Even Petty’s downbeat songs offer comfort and perspective to himself and his listeners. The song’s melancholy frame of mind is offset by Mike Campbell’s jangling guitars and Benmont Tench’s twinkling saloon piano. Songs like “To Find a Friend” exercise a gift for songs wherein people recognize their own experience, even while Petty was working through his own mid-life crises. While writing, the singer was recovering his footing amid personal landmines and navigating the waning days of his first marriage. Wildflowersfinds Petty weathered, weary, and occasionally anxious, but the album retains hope for better days, affection for loved ones, and revels in its chances to cut loose. These songs joined the canon alongside smashes like “American Girl” and “Refugee.” Set lists had included the chugging and confessional “You Don’t Know How it Feels,” feral rocker “You Wreck Me,” wistful “It’s Good to Be King,” the broken but hopeful “Crawling Back to You,” and the doting and fatherly “Wildflowers.” “You belong somewhere you feel free,” sings Petty on the latter. Wildflowers’ 15 tracks introduced songs that remained Heartbreakers concert staples until Petty’s untimely passing in 2017, a week following the conclusion of the band’s 40 thanniversary tour. In a catalog crowded with classic rock staples, many point to 1994’s Wildflowers as the brightest jewel in Petty’s crown.
Petty took the opportunity to shake up his workflow, his lineup, and craft the most intimate and personal record of his career. When Into the Great Wide Openwith Lynne and the Heartbreakers achieved respectable but lesser results, there was natural interest in another release under Petty’s name alone.
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Wildflowers & All the Rest Deluxe EditionĪfter seven gold and platinum-selling albums with the Heartbreakers, Tom Petty released his first solo album in 1989.Chart favorites including “Free Falling” and “I Won’t Back Down” helped the Jeff Lynne-produced Full Moon Fevereclipse even the success of 1979’s Damn the Torpedoes.
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