This tune should have been included in my last Best of What’s New installment from Friday, but I missed it. Confusion Wheel is a previously unreleased song by Tom Petty, which be on the forthcoming box-set Wildflowers and All the Rest slated for October 16.
According to a short announcement on Petty’s website on September 8, “Confusion Wheel,” written in 1994, eerily captures the uncertainty of 2020 as if it were written yesterday and somehow twists it with infinite hope. Yesterday, Heartbreaker Benmont Tench and Tom’s longtime engineer and co-producer Ryan Ulyate spoke to David Fricke and premiered the previously unreleased song on SiriusXM’s Tom Petty Radio. Listen/share “Confusion Wheel,” alongside a visualizer featuring artwork by Blaze Ben Brooks.
As previously reported by Variety and other media outlets, Wildflowers and All the Rest was jointly curated by Tom’s wife and daughters Dana, Adria and Annakim Petty, respectively, along with former Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Tench. The collection was produced by Ulyate. In addition to remastered versions of the original Wildflowers tracks, the box set features home recordings/demos, live tracks and various previously unreleased songs.
I really miss Tom Petty, so looking forward to this release!
Sources: Tom Petty website; Variety; YouTube
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This sounds really good. It is pure Tom…Yea Christian I miss him also.
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I just dig Tom Petty. I also like the home recording/demo of Wildflowers that’s already out.
I also watched the Classic Albums episode for Damn the Torpedoes the other night. I could listen to that kind of stuff for hours. It’s fascinating to me.
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I love the Wildflowers video that is out now…and that version is so clean.
Yea I’ve seen that episode it’s really good.
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Good tune.
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