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. All ten songs, in their original form, were finally released in the 2020 re-released edition of Wildflowers, Wildflowers & All the Rest.įour singles were released from the album between 19, the most successful of which, " You Don't Know How It Feels", reached No. 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. Records felt that the album was too long, and it was decided to reduce the album to 15 tracks. 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. (Lynch did play on one outtake from Wildflowers, "Something Could Happen"). 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. Petty auditioned numerous drummers for the album, and eventually chose Steve Ferrone. The album features all the band's members with the exception of drummer Stan Lynch. Wildflowers was credited only to Petty and not to his usual band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers because, in Petty's words, "Rick and I both wanted more freedom than to be strapped into five guys." Nonetheless, the Heartbreakers predominantly served as the musicians on the album.
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