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Wildflowers by Tom Petty
Wildflowers is not Tom Petty’s tightest album, nor his easiest to listen to. There’s hopelessness and anger; disappointment and regret. Its disparate modes — blues, country, folk, power-pop, torch songs — are connected by the roads, both literal and figurative, that led him to where he found himself: lonely, middle-aged, digging through his consciousness as one would ransack a room to find a small, lost object.
Featured songs:
Wildflowers
Time to Move On
You Wreck Me
It’s Good to Be King
To Find a Friend
Wake Up Time
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