music.wikisort.org - CompositionWildflowers is the second solo studio album by American musician Tom Petty, released on November 1, 1994. The album was the first released by Petty after signing a contract with Warner Bros. Records (where he had recorded as part of the Traveling Wilburys) and the first of three albums produced by Rick Rubin. The album was certified 3× platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America.
1994 studio album by Tom Petty
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Released | November 1, 1994 (1994-11-01) |
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Recorded | July 20, 1992 – April 29, 1994 |
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- Sound City, Van Nuys
- Ocean Way, Hollywood
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Genre |
- Heartland rock
- rock and roll
- folk rock[1]
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Length | 62:48 |
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Label | Warner Bros. |
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Greatest Hits (1993) |
Wildflowers (1994) |
Songs and Music from "She's the One" (1996) |
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Professional ratingsReview scores |
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Source | Rating |
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AllMusic |     [2] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | B−[3] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music |     [4] |
Entertainment Weekly | B−[5] |
The Guardian |    [6] |
Los Angeles Times |    [7] |
NME | 8/10[8] |
Pitchfork | 8.8/10[9] |
Rolling Stone |     [10] |
Uncut | 8/10[11] |
In 2020, the album was ranked at number 214 on Rolling Stone's Greatest Albums of All Time list.[12]
Production
Wildflowers was credited only to Petty and not to his usual band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers because, in Petty's words, "Rick [Rubin] and I both wanted more freedom than to be strapped into five guys."[13] Nonetheless, the Heartbreakers predominantly served as the musicians on the album. The album features all the band's members with the exception of drummer Stan Lynch. Petty auditioned numerous drummers for the album, and eventually chose Steve Ferrone. Petty fired Lynch from the Heartbreakers soon before the album's release, and Ferrone officially joined the touring band the following year, and later became a full band member. (Lynch did play on one outtake from Wildflowers, "Something Could Happen").
Petty wrote and recorded numerous songs for the album, and the original plan was to have Wildflowers be a double album, with 25 songs in total. However, Lenny Waronker of Warner Bros. Records felt that the album was too long, and it was decided to reduce the album to 15 tracks.[14] Of the 10 tracks left out, one, "Leave Virginia Alone", notably became a hit single the following year when it was recorded by Rod Stewart, while another four were included, in modified form, in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' next album, the soundtrack album to the 1996 film She's the One. All ten songs, in their original form, were finally released in the 2020 re-released edition of Wildflowers, Wildflowers & All the Rest.
Release
Four singles were released from the album between 1994 and 1995, the most successful of which, "You Don't Know How It Feels", reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Album Rock Tracks chart for one week. It was followed by "You Wreck Me", "It's Good to Be King" and "A Higher Place" which reached Nos. 2, 6, and 12 respectively on the Mainstream Rock chart.[15] The title track, while not released as a single, charted at #16 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart[16] and at #3 on the Billboard Lyric Find.[17] and became one of Petty's most streamed and popular songs.[18][19]
Rolling Stone placed Wildflowers at number 12 on their list of the best albums of the 1990s.[20] Guitar World placed the album at number 49 in their "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list.[21]
In April 2015, when Petty's back catalog was released in high-resolution audio, this was one of only two albums not included in the series (Songs and Music from "She's the One" was the other one), but a hi-res version was available on Pono Music.
The title of the 2020 book Somewhere You Feel Free: Tom Petty and Los Angeles comes from a lyric in the album's title song "Wildflowers".[22]
2020 re-release
Petty's family and bandmates arranged a 2020 re-release of the album that includes deleted songs, demos, and live tracks, entitled Wildflowers & All the Rest.[23] The super deluxe edition of the box set included a fifth disc of alternate versions of the Wildflowers tracks, called Finding Wildflowers. In April 2021, Finding Wildflowers was released individually.[24]
Documentary
The making of Wildflowers is the subject of the 2021 documentary film Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free - The Making of Wildflowers, directed by Mary Wharton. The documentary includes a significant amount of archival footage from the recording sessions, recorded by Martyn Atkins, which had only recently been unearthed following Petty's death; as well as new interviews with many of the producers and musicians who had been involved with the album. The film was released in November 2021 on YouTube.[25][26]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Tom Petty, except where noted.
All the Rest
Title | Writer(s) |
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1. | "Something Could Happen" | | 4:35 |
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2. | "Leave Virginia Alone" | | 4:16 |
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3. | "Climb That Hill Blues" | | 2:33 |
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4. | "Confusion Wheel" | | 4:20 |
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5. | "California" | | 2:38 |
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6. | "Harry Green" | | 3:54 |
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7. | "Hope You Never" | | 3:03 |
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8. | "Somewhere Under Heaven" | | 4:37 |
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9. | "Climb That Hill" | | 3:34 |
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10. | "Hung Up and Overdue" | | 6:03 |
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Outtakes
- "Girl on LSD" was released as the B-side of the "You Don't Know How It Feels" single (1994).
- "Leave Virginia Alone" was another song written and recorded during the sessions and left off the finished album. It was given to Rod Stewart for his album A Spanner in the Works (1995).
- The songs "California", "Hope You Never", "Hung Up and Overdue", and "Climb That Hill" were all included on the She's the One soundtrack album (1996), with various edits across the first three tracks, while "Climb That Hill" was a complete remake.[27]
- In 2018, outtake "Lonesome Dave," recorded July 23, 1993, was released on Petty's posthumous box set An American Treasure.
- In 2021, a cover of J.J. Cale's "Thirteen Days," recorded July 22, 1993, was released on the reimagined version of She's the One soundtrack album, Angel Dream.
Personnel
- Tom Petty – vocals (all tracks), acoustic guitar (1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16-19, 20, 21, 23, 25), electric guitar (2-5, 7, 10, 13, 14, 20, 22, 24), harmonica (2, 12, 20, 21), bass guitar (2, 12, 20), harmony vocals (2, 5, 14, 20-22, 24), Hammond organ (14), piano (15), percussion (16), harpsichord (22)
- Mike Campbell – electric guitar (tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 9–14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22-25), bass guitar (1, 3, 5, 6, 12, 13–15, 20, 23, 24), slide guitar (3, 25), acoustic guitar (8), coral sitar (11), harpsichord (1), piano (20), Hammond organ (23), drums (23)
- Benmont Tench – piano (tracks 1, 3–7, 9, 10, 12–14, 16, 17, 25), grand piano (2), electric piano (2, 24), Hammond organ (4, 6, 9, 12, 14, 22), Mellotron (6, 14, 25), tack piano (11), harmonium (1, 6, 12, 16, 17, 19), zenon (11), orchestron (12)
- Howie Epstein – harmony vocals (tracks 2, 4, 5, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 24), bass guitar (4, 7, 10, 16, 19, 22, 25), backing vocals (7)
- Steve Ferrone – drums (tracks 1-7, 9, 10, 12–15, 17, 19, 20, 22, 24)
Additional musicians
- Lenny Castro – percussion (tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 25)
- Brandon Fields – saxophone (track 13)
- Greg Herbig – saxophone (track 13)
- Jim Horn – saxophone (track 13)
- Kim Hutchcroft – saxophone (track 13)
- Phil Jones – percussion (tracks 4, 10, 20, 22)
- Michael Kamen – orchestration, conductor (tracks 1, 3, 5, 12, 15)
- Stan Lynch – drums (track 16)
- John Pierce – bass guitar (track 9)
- Marty Rifkin – pedal steel guitar (track 13)
- Ringo Starr – drums (tracks 11, 25)
- Carl Wilson – backing vocals (tracks 7, 25)
Production
- Joe Barresi – assistant engineer
- David Bianco – engineer
- Mike Campbell – producer
- Richard Dodd – engineer, mixer
- Steve Holyrod – assistant engineer
- Kenji Nasai – assistant mixer
- Tom Petty – producer
- Rick Rubin – producer
- Jim Scott – engineer
- Jeff Sheehan – assistant engineer
Charts
Certifications
References
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- Christgau, Robert (2000). "Tom Petty: Wildflowers". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
- Larkin, Colin (2011). "Petty, Tom, and the Heartbreakers". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). London: Omnibus Press. p. 2005. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
- Browne, David (November 4, 1994). "Music Reviews: 'Wildflowers' and 'You Got Lucky'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
- Sullivan, Caroline (November 4, 1994). "Tom Petty: Wildflowers (Warner)". The Guardian.
- Willman, Chris (October 30, 1994). "Tom Petty 'Wildflowers' Warner Bros". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
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Wildflowers è un album rock di Tom Petty, pubblicato nel novembre del 1994. È il primo album pubblicato con la casa discografica Warner Music Group.
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Wildflowers — второй сольный альбом лидера американской рок-группы The Heartbreakers Тома Петти. Занял 8 место в чарте Billboard 200[1] и стал 3×мульти-платиновым в США[2] и 2×платиновым в Канаде[3]. В списке 100 лучших альбомов 90-х по версии Rolling Stone занял 12 место[4].
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