This week marks the third and final installment of my intermittent Tom Petty series, taking us through his five most recent albums.

First up is his 1996 follow-up to Wildflowers, the soundtrack album for Ed Burns’ film She’s the One. This record was touted as not simply songs to accompany the film but a proper Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers album (sort of the way the soundtrack to Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever was an official Stevie Wonder album).

And yes, that is probably the first time Tom Petty has been compared to Stevie Wonder.

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