It would be three more years before Tom Petty released a follow-up to the She’s the One soundtrack. 1999’s Echo was inspired by Petty’s divorce from his wife of more than two decades.

I bought this album at the time and gave it only a listen or two before dismissing it as a lesser effort. I eventually sold it back in one of those CD purges I do from time to time and sometimes later regret. At least these days I burn the music to my computer before getting rid of a physical CD, but in the “old days” it just disappeared.

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