My #8 album of 1991 belongs to the late, great Tom Petty, recording as he so often did, with The Heartbreakers.
Into the Great Wide Open was the follow-up to 1989’s Full Moon Fever, and can’t help but pale in comparison to that all-time classic. But this is still a very good collection in the same smart Byrds-ian pop-rock vein as its predecessor.
Singles ‘Learning to Fly’ and the title track both reached the top ten, but the record’s best songs are the deeper cuts. Today’s SOTD is a nice one that takes on a whole new poignancy in light of Petty’s untimely death.
When we’re least expecting it
One day in some far off place
I will recognize your face
I won’t say goodbye my friend
For you and I will meet again
I heard you singing to no one
I saw you dancing all alone
One day you belonged to me
Next day I just wouldn’t know
One day all the rules will bend
And you and I will meet again
I’ve got a feeling
I’ve got a feeling so strong
Maybe someday our paths will cross
A red-winged hawk is circling
The blacktop stretches out for days
How could I get so close to you
And still feel so far away?
I hear a voice come on the wind
Saying you and I will meet again
I don’t know how, I don’t know when
But you and I will meet again
Meet Me In Montauk 
Still hard to believe Petty is gone. So sad!