Listening: Wildflowers and All the Rest and more

There was a time when it looked like the vinyl long-playing record was dead and gone. And then one spring day in 1994, I found a store that was still selling LPs. New LPs! I don’t think I realized until that day that some vinyl was still being issued, albeit in limited editions because sales were way past their prime in those days when CDs and cassettes ruled.

I think I spent more than a hundred bucks that first time, and came back for more. And Tom Petty was in the middle of it all. Wild...