In the weeds

The album that TOM PETTY considered to be his career peak arrived during the most traumatic period of his life – as self-doubt, a broken marriage and record company wrangles threatened to engulf him. As a sumptuous new book illuminates Petty’s creative processes, former bandmates and collaborators hail his creative rebirth with Wildflowers. “It’s such a personal record,” one eyewitness tells Rob Hughes. “Brutal at times, but kind, deliberate and honest.”

Tom Petty Somewhere You Feel Free: The ...

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Wilco dynamo’s fifth solo LP is a wildly eclectic triple that celebrates collective creativity and freedom.