Tom had always intended to release the second half of the album – a collection he named All The Rest, featuring ten songs from the Wildflowers recording sessions that were left off the original version and five unreleased tracks (different versions of four other songs would appear on the soundtrack to the 1996 film, She's The One). But I was at the top of my game during that record." Then again in 2016 on SiriusXM's Tom Petty Radio, he discussed his desire for a Wildflowers tour to coincide with a reissue. My personal life came crashing down, and it derailed me for a while. In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone Tom detailed his plans for the reissue, telling the magazine, "I broke through to something else. The resurrection of Wildflowers has been a long time coming. Released on November 1, 1994, Wildflowers – a single CD with 15 songs, still more than an hour in length – was Tom's most acutely confessional album to date. In fact, Tom, Rubin and Campbell completed the album as a double CD with 25 songs, nearly two hours of music, but his label advised restraint. Tom ultimately wrote more songs than he could release at the time. Wildflowers in many ways changed Tom's creative life – as a recording artist, collaborator and band leader – while a profound, personal crisis transformed the stories and emotional thrust in his songs. See below or for details.Deluxe Edition Vinyl 7LP Box Set of Tom Petty Wildflowers & All the Rest: Includes 2020 Remaster of Wildflowers, Previously Unreleased Songs and Live Material, and 60-Page Bookĭuring Tom Petty's final interview with the Los Angeles Times, as the triumphant 40th anniversary tour with The Heartbreakers was coming to an end, he announced that his next big focus would be to finally revisit his 1994 masterpiece, Wildflowers, co-produced with Rick Rubin and Mike Campbell. The band will also headline London’s Hyde Park as part of Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time with very special guests Stevie Nicks, The Lumineers, Ward Thomas, The Head and The Heart, Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown and The Shelters among others-this will be their only European performance of 2017. The tour features support from Joe Walsh as well as Chris Stapleton, Peter Wolf and The Lumineers on select dates this summer. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers are on tour now with shows sold out across North America-more to be added soon. UMe will also be releasing Pack Up The Plantation Live! The albums will be individually available on 180g black vinyl with the original LP artwork. Each album* has been remastered for this release and seven of the albums-Damn the Torpedoes, Full Moon Fever, Hard Promises, Into The Great Wide Open, Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough), Long After Dark and Southern Accents-are included in the The Complete Studio Albums Volume 1 box set, released last year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut. On June 2, UMe will release eight individual albums from their Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers catalog as stand-alone vinyl titles.
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