Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624987338
Label: Warner Brothers
Manufacturer: Warner Brothers
Number Of Discs: 1
Packaged Height: 40 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 560 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 15 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 490 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Warner Brothers
Release Date: 2008-04-29
Studio: Warner Brothers
Product Description:
"I just finished a record with Mudcrutch, my old band before the Heartbreakers. I am over the moon about it. I couldn't have hoped for it to be as good as it came out." In summer 2007, Tom Petty reunited Mudcrutch, consisting of himself, Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, original bandmember Tom Leadon, and Randall Marsh, who joined when Mudcrutch first went to Los Angeles in search of a record deal in the early 70s. Now, more than 30 years later, Mudcrutch finally has its debut album. With new Petty songs and a handful of covers, the self-titled disc is both classic rock and a rock classic.
Customer Reviews:
 Wilburys go country.. Do I need this?, 2008-07-02
I have loved Mr.Petty and his fine band since 1977. Just an amazing performer who has timeless songs. Not just the hits, the B sides are tremendous. Anything thats rock n roll, restless,spike, on and on and on, this band blows Springsteen and that overhyped Northern bunch away.
That said, for me the music stopped around 1994. Stan left because of the Ballads that were increasingly becoming the new music. Sure we would have an occasional hard rocking sound primarily driven by a wonderful riff by THE best lead guitar on the planet. Tom would have to write a lyrics to match. like Running down a dream. But they became far and between. Remember when you would buy Hard promises, your gonna get it, Torpedos, and EVERY single song was a sing along rocking masterpiece?
I think as Tom aged it became way too easy to write boring "room at the top" crap, that even he has admitted is much easier to produce than a guitar driven rocking song.
He got good reviews for Wildflowers, and it's been downhill ever since. More palply draggy songs with an occasional gem or two thrown in.
Oh well, the stones have done that for years too.
I was spoiled with TP for so long, I expected at least 7 great songs per album. That is long gone.
Either he cannot do it anymore, or doesn't want to. It always amazes me that a band will hit a formula fans love, then decide to "do something different" or as Tom puts it "we were treading water"
Note to TOM: We want you to tread water. If we wanted different we could listen to a million other bands. Your hard driven, sneering, fast talking, working man blues rockers were what made millions of fans.
So Tom keeps doing the special projects, and the DJ political statements, and the feel good self absorbed Mudcrutch stuff. It's not making me happy.
I want the Tom Petty and the heartbreakers of the 70's and 80s' back. But I think they are long gone. It was a great run.
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