“I could see my dad out of the corner of my eye,” Adria says, “looking at that and going, ‘Well, that should be me, not Neil.’” She remembers Rubin sitting by the window, listening to one Neil Young CD after another, talking to nobody. Rick Rubin was on Tom and Adria’s flight back to Los Angeles. In 1992 Petty and the Heartbreakers played “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35” at a Bob Dylan tribute show at Madison Square Garden. “I think as the music got more gritty and rock-driven,” Adria says, “he was like, ‘Hey, that’s the space I dwell in, that’s my world. But hadn’t the Heartbreakers been called a punk band, back in the day? Hadn’t Petty been wearing flannel all along? Petty had been busy making exactingly built pop records with Jeff Lynne.
Bands that sounded like they played together in the same room and looked like they slept together on the same floor. It was the early ‘90s and the radio was playing rock music again. Petty wrote “Wildflowers” there, watched over by the King. A framed Elvis Presley poster on the wall. Two long wooden tables, some recording equipment, a few guitars. Later there was a house in Malibu, and a little room with a hidden door. Even if we lived in a one-room place - the kitchen would be blocked off, for writing songs.” Even when I was a little kid and we were really poor, he’d always have a room that he snuck into, to write songs. “He always had a home studio,” said Adria Petty, the eldest daughter of Tom and his first wife, Jane Benyo. The process started the way it always did - just Tom Petty in a room. I remember running into him on the beach several years ago and he said he was ‘afraid’ of ‘Wildflowers.’ He said it was his favorite of everything he’s done and couldn’t grasp why.” “Tom tapped into something in that moment we didn’t recognize at the time,” Rubin said in an email interview. A wealth of demos and alternate takes - the “Super Deluxe” version includes 70 songs - illuminate a period of creative surge even Petty could never fully explain. The new box set “Wildflowers & All the Rest ,” produced by Ulyate and curated by Petty’s bandmates and heirs, reimagines “Wildflowers” as the sprawling statement it almost was.
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“You Don’t Know How It Feels” became Petty’s highest-charting single since “ Free Fallin’.” But it also seems to stand outside the rest of Petty’s catalog. It sold 3 million copies on initial release. “Wildflowers” isn’t a lost album, or a compromised one, or a hidden gem. Petty died of an accidental overdose of painkillers one week later, on Oct. “He wanted to be there more than anywhere else in the world.” band longer than they’d been anything else. But that night at the Bowl he was loose and funny - the hippie Mad Hatter version of Tom, guiding everybody’s trip. Days before the first shows he’d been diagnosed with emphysema. He’d delayed hip-replacement surgery to do the tour. He’d been in pain for a while when they hit the road.
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