Button Sunday

Here’s one of my Tom Petty buttons. I literally think of Tom every day, as I do Eddie Van Halen, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jon Bon Jovi, and the Beach Boys and Beatles (individually and collectively) because of various accounts I follow on Instagram.

I saw the movie She’s The One (1996) and bought the soundtrack. The music was by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Related: The album Angel Dream (I’ll include the Record Store Day website information at the end of this post), which I got recently, included five postcards. I wanted to keep the postcards, but I also thought it would be fun to receive them. Since Marika is my go-to postcard person, I sent them to her, and she’ll be writing something on each of them and sending them back to me sporadically. Thanks for having some Tom Petty fun with me, Marika!

The first one arrived Friday, and though I won’t share the message, it made me laugh.

Enjoy “Walls.” I hadn’t seen this video in so long!

From the Record Store Day website: Angel Dream is a special reimagining of the album She’s The One to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its original release. This also brings to a close the celebration of Tom Petty’s masterpiece Wildflowers, as most of the songs on this album were recorded during the same time period. She’s The One included some songs that were left off the original Wildflowers album, recently included in the Wildflowers All The Rest re-issue. To take the place of those songs, four previously unreleased songs have been added here – two Petty originals (“105 Degrees” and “One of Life’s Little Mysteries”), a cover of JJ Cale’s “Thirteen Days”, and the instrumental “French Disconnection”. An extended version of “Supernatural Radio” is also included. The album has been remixed and remastered and brand new cover art commissioned – emphasizing that this is a Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers album, rather than a soundtrack album. This very special version for RSD Drops is pressed on cobalt blue vinyl.