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I was thinking about songs mentioning the month of March.  I decided, however, to go a different way.  I suppose it’s along the same lines, though.  As the month of March rolls around, you think of March flowers.  The first song about flowers that I thought of was the title track to Tom Petty’s 1994 solo album released in November of that year, Wildflowers. 
I read somewhere that he wrote this song about his divorce.  While I can’t confirm or deny this, it is a nice song.  Here’s Tom on how the song came to be:
“I just took a deep breath and it came out.  The whole song.  Stream of consciousness: words, music, chords.  Finished it.  I mean, I played it into a tape recorder. I played the whole song and I never played it again.  I actually spent three and a half minutes on the whole song.  So, I’d come back for days playing that tape, thinking there must be something wrong here because this just came too easy.  And then I realized there’s probably nothing wrong at all”. 
I just automatically thought of this song as soon as I decided I’d write this column.  I love the song and I love the album.  Wildflowers won the Best Rock Album Grammy in 1996.  “You Don’t Know How It Feels”, from that album, won Best Male Video.  It was a great video. 
Country act the JaneDear Girls had a song called “Wildflower” in 2010.  In 2005, Martina McBride covered the Lynn Anderson classic “Rose Garden”.  Bon Jovi had “Bed of Roses” in 1993.  Shenandoah had “Two Dozen Roses” in ’89.  Poison had a hit in the late ‘80’s with “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”.  Going all the way back to 1966, the Statler Brothers had a hit with “Flowers on the Wall”.  Thirty-four years later, Eric Heatherly covered the track.  That’s just a sampling of the history of songs mentioning flowers.  ‘That was an easier task than songs mentioning March.  Seeing that March and April are synonymous with flowers, this seemed to fit.