
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.It was given to Rod Stewart for his album A Spanner in the Works (1995). " Leave Virginia Alone" was another song written and recorded during the sessions and left off the finished album."Girl on LSD" was released as the B-side of the "You Don't Know How It Feels" single (1994).In April 2021, "Finding Wildflowers" was released individually. The super deluxe edition of the box set called "Finding Wildflowers" included a fifth disc of alternate versions of the Wildflowers tracks. Petty's family and bandmates arranged a 2020 re-release of the album that includes these deleted songs, demos, and live tracks entitled Wildflowers & All the Rest. Petty's original track listing for Wildflowers was a double album with 25 songs and Lenny Waronker of Warner Bros. 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".
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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. and became one of Petty's most streamed and popular songs. The title track, while not released as a single, charted at #16 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart and at #3 on the Billboard Lyric Find. 2, 6, and 12 respectively on the Mainstream Rock chart. It was followed by " You Wreck Me", "It's Good to Be King" and "A Higher Place" which reached Nos. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Album Rock Tracks chart for one week.

įour singles were released from the album between 19, the most successful of which, " You Don't Know How It Feels", reached No. Guitar World placed the album at number 49 in their "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list. Rolling Stone placed Wildflowers at number 12 on their list of the best albums of the 1990s. The album, however, was not credited to the Heartbreakers because, in Petty's words, "Rick (Rubin) and I both wanted more freedom than to be strapped into five guys." Freedom notwithstanding, Petty chose to use most of his regular band as session players, demonstrating his comfort with that format. Steve Ferrone plays drums on Wildflowers and would join the band officially the following year.

The album features all members of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, with the exception of drummer Stan Lynch and Scott Thurston, though Lynch would be featured on the All The Rest song "Something Could Happen".
