| Product Summary | | Label: Topics Entertainment | | UPC: 00093624987338 | | Release Date: 4/29/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 207596541 | | Item#: M43L6F | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 9 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Shady Grove ~ Mudcrutch |  | | 2. Scare Easy ~ Mudcrutch | | | 3. Orphan Of The Storm ~ Mudcrutch | | | 4. Six Days On The Road ~ Mudcrutch | | | 5. Crystal River ~ Mudcrutch | | | 6. Oh Maria ~ Mudcrutch | | | 7. This Is A Good Street ~ Mudcrutch | | | 8. Wrong Thing To Do, The ~ Mudcrutch | | | 9. Queen Of The Go-Go Girls ~ Mudcrutch | | | 10. June Apple ~ Mudcrutch | | | 11. Lover Of The Bayou ~ Mudcrutch | | | 12. Topanga Cowgirl ~ Mudcrutch | | | 13. Bootleg Flyer ~ Mudcrutch | | | 14. House Of Stone ~ Mudcrutch | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Mudcrutch: Tom Leadon (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar); Benmont Tench (vocals, piano, keyboards); Tom Petty (vocals, bass guitar, background vocals); Mike Campbell (guitar, mandolin); Randall Marsh (drums). | | Recording information: The Clubhouse, Los Angeles, CA. | | In the early-to-mid 1970s, Tom Petty's band Mudcrutch was one of the biggest things in Gainesville, Florida, but when they went to L.A. to make it big, only about half the group survived the transformation to Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Three decades later, Petty decided to go back to his roots by re-forming Mudcrutch for a long-overdue debut album, along with Heartbreakers/former Mudcrutchers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell and long-lost cohorts Tom Leadon (brother of former Eagle Bernie) and Randall Marsh. | | Petty spontaneously banged out a batch of new tunes for the album, but the band stays true to the original Mudcrutch template of country-tinged roots rock, even attacking a couple of old cover tunes from the Mudcrutch setlist ("Six Days on the Road," "Shady Grove"). Whether it's the reconnection with his youth, the off-the-cuff working methods, or just a change of pace, Petty wound up turning out his most consistently rewarding album since the '80s. |
Producer: Mike Campbell; Ryan Ulyate; Tom Petty |
Engineer: Ryan Ulyate |
| | Artist Overview | | Before Tom Petty moved to L.A. in the mid-1970s and found fame with the Heartbreakers, he was the singer/bassist for country-rockers Mudcrutch in his hometown of Gainesville, Florida. Three decades later, Petty and Heartbreakers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell (also original Mudcrutchers) got back together with Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh for a Mudcrutch reunion that resulted in an excellent 2008 album (the band's first!) and a short tour. |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/29/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2008 | | Catalog ID : 2-455868 | | Label : Reprise | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624987338 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.80)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "MUDCRUTCH has more jammy, expansive guitar work than any Petty record ever....The songs are mythic Americana: With help from his bandmates, Petty creates a vivid cast of road dogs, strippers and junkies that conjures Gram Parsons' Bible-haunted Southerners..."Entertainment Weekly (p.64)
- "[H]is vocals have rarely sounded more quaveringly beautiful than they do on honky-tonk lament 'Orphan of the Storm.'" -- Grade: B Q (Magazine)
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- 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Scare Easy,' the single, and 'Bootleg Flyer,' reminiscent of Petty's classic 'American Girl,' are the standouts on this collection of rough and ragged, feel-good country-rock." |
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