Tom Petty's Wildflowers will finally get the double-disc treatment 3 years after his death
Late rocker Tom Petty had very different intentions for the Rick Rubin co-produced Wildflowers, his second solo album. The 1994 15-track LP, which peaked on the Billboard 200 at No. 8, was originally submitted to Warner Bros. as a double album with 25 songs. It was a collection of beloved tracked that would ultimately be truncated (with two songs—“California”and “Hung Up and Overdue”—finding a new home on the She’s The One soundtrack two years later) at the suggestion of the label. Regarded by those close to him as his most beloved project, Petty died before he ever got the chance to witness Wildflowers in its intended form. But three years after his death, his dream work is getting a reissue called Wildflowers & All the Rest, which will present his vision in full via a box set.
