Tom Petty’s Long-Awaited ‘Wildflowers’ Box Set Detailed

[Sharp Dressed Man]

This one's been talked about for this and we finally have a release date:

After teases, unearthed songs and demo recordings, Tom Petty’s estate has finally announced its long-awaited reissue for Petty’s beloved 1994 solo album Wildflowers.

Wildflowers and All the Rest, a “comprehensive” five-CD or nine-LP box set due out October 16th, features the 1994 LP alongside dozens of unreleased tracks, home recordings (like “There Goes Angela (Dream Away)” and the demo of “You Don’t Know How It Feels“), alternate versions and live renditions of Wildflowers tracks.

In addition to the announcement of Wildflowers and All the Rest, Warner Records also shared Petty’s “home recording” version of the album’s title track “Wildflowers.”

The Petty, Rick Rubin and Mike Campbell-produced sessions for Wildflowers yielded enough material for a double-album filled with 25 songs. However, the label advised that Petty pare it down as a single disc, with unused tracks either winding up on Petty’s She’s the One soundtrack or in the archives, like “Somewhere Under Heaven,” which appears in the box set. “I did not remember writing it, recording it, anything,” Petty told Rolling Stone in 2014. “And it was really good — uptempo but very unusual, in some strange time signature.”

In the years prior to his October 2017 death, Petty admitted that restoring Wildflowers to its full glory was a top priority. “I broke through to something else. My personal life came crashing down, and it derailed me for a while. But I was at the top of my game during that record,” Petty said.

The planned 25-song LP is realized on the first two discs of Wildflowers and All the Rest, which adjoins the original 15-song album with the 10-song “All the Rest” containing five previously unreleased tracks. The “Home Recordings” disc finds Petty’s solo workshopping of 15 Wildflowers songs in his home studio, while the “Alternate Versions (Finding Wildflowers)” disc sees Petty and his studio band working toward the final LP. The box set — curated by Tom’s daughters, Adria and Annakim Petty, his wife Dana Petty and Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench — is rounded out by a collection of 14 live recordings of Wildflowers songs spanning 1995 to 2017.

Wildflowers and All the Rest, up for preorder now ahead of its October 16th release, is available in a variety of editions, ranging from a stripped-down two-CD/three-LP with the complete album of 25 songs to a massive Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition that contains a lyric book, custom-made necklace, an exclusive 7-inch of “You Don’t Know How It Feels” and more.” Each version also comes with a booklet that includes an introduction by Rick Rubin and an essay by Rolling Stone contributor David Fricke.

Wildflowers and All the Rest Tracklist

Wildflowers
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

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

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

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

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
15. Wake Up Time
16. You Saw Me Comin’

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Damn, I'm so excited to finally have a release date. I just checked my local dealer and the deluxe LP set is pricey, but that's not gonna stop me. I need this set and I can't freaking wait!

 

[Sharp Dressed Man]

 

[That 70s Guy]

Tom Petty's version of "Leave Virginia Alone" has finally been released.

More than a quarter century after he left the track off his 1994 album Wildflowers, Petty's version of the song, which instead became a hit single for Rod Stewart, has been released as the fourth track from the upcoming Wildflowers & All the Rest box set.

Petty thought the song sounded too similar to another cut, so he left "Leave Virginia Alone" off his 1994 album. "Sometimes I feel it's just not that great," he told Paul Zollo in the 2005 book Conversations With Tom Petty. "I do it all the time. I'll be here in the studio, and I'll have an idea, and I might spend the whole day doing the track. And then I'll feel it's not really that good. So it just goes in the outtake file. But sometimes you'll do that, and maybe it wasn't that good, but one little bit of it was, and so you go, 'Okay, let's keep that one little bit.' Maybe those two lines, or that one bit of melody was really good, and that can start you on another journey to where maybe something really good is going to appear."

The song was then given to Stewart, whose version reached No. 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1995.

"It was for Tom Petty's album, but he took it off because it was too close lyrically to something that was a hit beforehand, and his managers couldn't persuade him to put it on the album," Stewart told Billboard. "So his manager, who's a friend of my manager, said 'Would Rod listen to the song?'"

You can watch the new video for Petty's original version of the song below. It was directed by Petty's daughter, Adria, and photographer, Mark Seliger. “The one idea that kept coming back to both of us is that we really want Tom to be narrating the story," Seliger explained. "We really want to hear his voice as he runs you through this journey that this woman is having.”

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[Nai Noswad]

Looks and sounds awesome!!!