Wild Seed – Wild Flower

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/wild-seed-wild-flower-mw0000626643|title=Wild Seed – Wild Flower – Dionne Farris|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=June 27, 2014|last=Demalon|first=Tom}}

| rev2 = Chicago Tribune

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/12/22/dionne-farriswild-seed-wild-flower-columbia-starstarstaras-part/|title=Dionne Farris: Wild Seed–Wild Flower (Columbia)|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=December 22, 1994|access-date=May 11, 2017|last=May|first=Mitchell}}

|rev3 = Robert Christgau

|rev3score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2860&name=Dionne+Farris|title=Dionne Farris|website=Robert Christgau}}

| rev4 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|chapter-url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195313734.001.0001/acref-9780195313734-e-62129|chapter=Farris, Dionne|accessdate=May 11, 2017|chapter-url-access=subscription|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|year=2009|isbn=978-0-199-72636-3}}

| rev5 = The Guardian

| rev5score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite news|title=Dionne Farris: Wild Seed – Wild Flower (Columbia)|newspaper=The Guardian|date=March 10, 1995|last=Sullivan|first=Caroline}}

| rev6 = Los Angeles Times

| rev6score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-27-ca-1940-story.html|title=Do You Hear What We Hear?|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=November 27, 1994|access-date=May 11, 2017|last=Hunt|first=Dennis}}

| rev7 = Rolling Stone

| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com:80/reviews/album/287545/review/5943207/wildseedwildflower|title=Dionne Farris: Wild Seed – Wild Flower|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=January 26, 1995|accessdate=May 11, 2017|last=Coker|first=Cheo H.|author-link=Cheo Hodari Coker|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714195642/http://www.rollingstone.com:80/reviews/album/287545/review/5943207/wildseedwildflower|archive-date=July 14, 2009|url-status=dead}}

}}

"I Know" was the only hit from the album, but Tom Demalon of AllMusic wrote that the album's "charms run much deeper" than the "percolating and infectious" hit single. However, critic Brent Mann expressed the opposite view, stating that the other songs "lacked energy and direction" and in one case turned "plodding and ponderous."{{cite book|last1=Mann|first1=Brent|title=99 Red Balloons: And 100 All-time One-Hit Wonders|date=2003|publisher=Citadel Press|isbn=9780806525167|page=80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2WgP8q0KNIC&dq=%22Dionne+Farris%22&pg=PA80|accessdate=June 27, 2014}}

{{Tracklist

|headline=Wild Seed – Wild Flower track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = I Know

| writer1 = {{hlist|Milton Davis|William DuVall}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|Davis|Dionne Farris|David Harris|Randy Jackson}}

| length1 = 3:49

| title2 = Reality

| writer2 = {{hlist|Farris|Billy Fields|Skitch Lovett}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|Davis|Farris|Harris|Jackson}}

| length2 = 4:42

| title3 = Stop to Think

| writer3 = {{hlist|Farris|Lenny Kravitz}}

| extra3 = Jackson

| length3 = 5:29

| title4 = Passion

| writer4 = {{hlist|Farris|Fields|Lovett}}

| extra4 = Jackson

| length4 = 5:44

| title5 = Food for Thought

| writer5 = {{hlist|Farris|Harris}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Davis|Farris|Harris|Jackson}}

| length5 = 6:35

| title6 = Now or Later

| writer6 = {{hlist|Farris|Fields|Lovett}}

| extra6 = Jackson

| length6 = 5:19

| title7 = Don't Ever Touch Me (Again)

| writer7 = {{hlist|Farris|Harris}}

| extra7 = {{hlist|Davis|Farris|Harris|Jackson}}

| length7 = 4:27

| title8 = 11th Hour

| writer8 = {{hlist|Farris|David Frank}}

| extra8 = Frank

| length8 = 4:46

| title9 = Water

| writer9 = {{hlist|Farris|Fields}}

| extra9 = {{hlist|Farris|Jackson}}

| length9 = 4:06

| title10 = Blackbird

| writer10 = {{hlist|John Lennon|Paul McCartney}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|Davis|Farris|Harris}}

| length10 = 3:08

| title11 = Old Ladies

| note11 = discussion of "Blackbird"

| extra11 = Farris

| length11 = 0:27

| title12 = Human

| writer12 = Farris

| extra12 = Farris

| length12 = 3:04

| title13 = Find Your Way

| writer13 = {{hlist|Farris|Tim Heintz|Jackson}}

| extra13 = {{hlist|Farris|Jackson}}

| length13 = 5:44

| title14 = The Audition

| note14 = skit

| extra14 = Farris

| length14 = 1:38

| title15 = I Know

| note15 = NY Reprise Mix

| writer15 = {{hlist|Davis|DuVall}}

| extra15 = {{hlist|Davis|Farris|Harris|Jackson}}

| length15 = 3:49

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Adapted from the liner notes of Wild Seed – Wild Flower.{{cite AV media notes|title=Wild Seed – Wild Flower|others=Dionne Farris|year=1994|publisher=Columbia|type=liner notes|id=CK 57359}}

• Dionne Farris – vocals, vocal and string arrangements
• Paul Barrere (slide), Bruce Gaitsch, Skitch Lovett, Tony Ruffin – guitars
• David Ryan Harris – guitars, keyboards, drums, percussion, drum programming, backing vocals
• Billy Fields, David Frank, Tim Heintz, David Kahne, Carl Young – keyboards
• Steve Twyman – organ
• Milton Davis, Randy Jackson, Lonnie Marshall – bass
• Anthony Johnson, Ju Ju House – drums
• John Mitchell – drums, percussion, drum programming
• Pete Escovedo, Jeff Haynes – percussion
• Joel Derouin – violin
• Suzie Katayama – cello
• Russell Mullen – trumpet
• Leesa Richards, Terry Shelton – backing vocals

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