Tom Petty

Wildflowers Tom Petty One-Step Audiophile edition

In a career full of great albums, most Tom Petty fans call ‘Wildflowers’ a masterpiece, likely his most acclaimed album. Produced by Rick Rubin with Tom Petty & Mike Campbell it was released in November of 1994 featuring 15 songs. ‘Wildflowers’ is considered a creative high point in Tom’s career. Originally conceived as a double album as Tom had written and recorded 25 songs ‘Wildflowers’ was eventually cut down to 15 songs. “You Don’t Know How It Feels”, “You Wreck Me”, “It’s Good To Be King”, and “A Highe

‘Wildflowers’ was originally recorded, mixed and mastered on analog tape, so this One-Step version is a true All Analog presentation as Chris Bellman carefully cut 7 lacquers from the original master tapes as the source for this incredible sounding release!

Tom’s audio archivist Ryan Ulyate was involved at every step and provided invaluable information and research along the way – including keeping a close eye on the master tapes as lacquer after lacquer was cut. ‘Wildflowers’ original album package designer, Jeri Heiden was brought in to create the beautiful double gatefold jacket. We listened to and analyzed many different vinyl pressings, CDs and Hi Rez audio to be certain the magic coming off the tapes would transcend every other pressing – all of which s