Demo Version of Tom Petty’s ‘You Don’t Know How It Feels’ Surfaces

Author Erica Banas // Rock Music Reporter

June 26th, 2020 10:05 AM

The Tom Petty YouTube Channel released a demo version of his hit “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” and it could be a sign that the next release from his catalog is on the way. The animated lyric video featuress new artwork of a wolf, which is also present on Petty’s social media channels and on his official website.

“You Don’t Know How It Feels” first appeared Petty’s Wildflowers album, which was released in 1994. A reissue has been in the works for a while, though don’t have an arrival date for that yet.

Petty’s daughter Adria Petty says about the demo: “The family and the band are in a joyful process of discovering the Wildflowers sessions and demos and wanted to share a tiny bit of that with the fans today.”

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