Wildflowers (Tom Petty song)
| "Wildflowers" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Tom Petty | ||||
| from the album Wildflowers | ||||
| Released | 1994 August 2020 (home recording) | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock[1] | |||
| Length | 3:10 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tom Petty | |||
| Producer(s) | Rick Rubin | |||
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"Wildflowers" is a song by Tom Petty and the opening track from the album of the same name. The song became very popular in concerts. Even though it was not released as a single, it charted at #16 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart,[2] at #11 on the Billboard Rock Digital Song Sales[3] and at #3 on the Billboard Lyric Find.[4] AllMusic said that the song was "simple" and sounded like folk-country music.[5][6]
It has become a very popular song of Petty's. He also stated "Wildflowers" was easy to write and compose.[7] He said that it took three and a half minutes to write the song, without any revisions needed.[8] He said he took "a deep breath and it came out. The whole song. Stream of consciousness: words, music, chords. Finished it. I mean, I just played it into a tape recorder and I played the whole song and I never played it again."[8]
The title of the November 2020 book Somewhere You Feel Free: Tom Petty and Los Angeles comes from a lyric in the song.[9]
"Wildflowers" is also Tom Petty's fourth most streamed solo song (and seventh overall) on Spotify, even passing the same album's big hit "You Don't Know How It Feels".[10]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "You Wreck Me - Tom Petty, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Song Info | AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ↑ "Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Chart History". Billboard.
- ↑ "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers". Billboard.
- ↑ "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers". Billboard.
- ↑ "Wildflowers - Tom Petty | Song Info". AllMusic.
- ↑ "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tour Statistics | setlist.fm". setlist.fm.
- ↑ Kelly, Sean. "Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers' Turns 25: The Stories Behind the Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Tom Petty Tells The Stories Behind His Songs". Performing Songwriter Ent., LLC. October 20, 2014.
- ↑ "Exclusive: Interview With Author of New Tom Petty Book". Best Classic Bands. 17 November 2020.
- ↑ "Tom Petty". Spotify.
