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| Artist: Mudcrutch
Label: Warner Bros.
Category: Music
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Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 104
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 455868
UPC: 093624987338
EAN: 0093624987338
ASIN: B0015FHDS6
Release Date: April 29, 2008
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Condition: Brand New - Factory Sealed - Shipped from Florida via USPS First class mail. We ONLY sell what we have in stock. NO back orders here.Import Edition
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| Tracks:
| • | Shady Grove | | • | Scare Easy | | • | Orphan Of The Storm | | • | Six Days On The Road | | • | Crystal River | | • | Oh Maria | | • | This Is A Good Street | | • | The Wrong Thing To Do | | • | Queen Of The Go-Go Girls | | • | June Apple | | • | Lover Of The Bayou | | • | Topanga Cowgirl | | • | Bootleg Flyer | | • | House Of Stone |
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"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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 Classic Country Rock, and the Bass Player Looks Familiar May 5, 2008
J. Chasin (NYC, NY)
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
In the early `70s a young band from Gainesville loaded up the van, drove to southern California, got signed, and cut a single that went nowhere. The record company liked the singer though, a skinny bass player, so the band reformulated around him and was rechristened Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The rest, as they say...
Recently Petty got the old band together--- moving back to bass, bringing along Heartbreakers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell, and enlisting original drummer Randall Marsh and singer-guitarist Tom Leadon, and the result is this record. It is a joy, the best one Petty has made in years. Mudcrutch is almost a time capsule, harkening back to that place and time when the Gram Parsons Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, and Eagles were inventing Country Rock in the late `60s and early `70s (they cover both the Byrds and the Burritos, and Leadon's brother was an Eagle.)
When the first Petty record came out in '76, the jangle of "American Girl" did indeed have critics making Byrds comparisons (and McGuinn covering the song soon after didn't hurt.) Mudcrutch is far more solidly encamped in country rock than the Heartbreakers were, kind of like an alternate universe without the New Wave flavor. In concert at the Fillmore they were loose and easy, the whole band clearly having a blast, playing the whole record plus 2 Dylan covers and encoring with three classic 50s rockers. And Tom Leadon was the happiest guy west of the Mississippi.
Petty does most, but not all of the singing; Campbell is his usual spot-on perfect self, and he and Leadon manage to rekindle the twin-guitar sound that they surely honed playing dives and topless bars in the early `70s (hence "Queen of the Go-Go Girls.) Tench lays down his honky tonk boogie woogie throughout the record.
There is precedent for this sound in the Heartbreakers early work; songs like "Magnolia" or "What Are You Doing in My Life" could fit easily into the Mudcrutch oeuvre and both point toward this alternate universe, and the Heartbreakers have covered "The Image of Me," also covered by the Burritos, on the Playback box.
In concert, Mudcrutch played "Crystal River" as the second-to-last song of the set. ("This is a song about a river that runs through Florida," said Petty, "and occasionally my mind.") It is a long simmering percolation, a sort of power ballad that feels like it is about to turn into "White Bird" at almost every turn. Petty's bass anchors the groove, while Campbell embarks on some divine exploratory guitar work with Leadon. I've seen others compare this song to the Allman Brothers, but to me the touchstone is Neil Young's "Down by the River." At nine minutes it is the set piece of the record.
The triumph here is simple--- a record that sounds like fun, that you want to put on at your next summer barbeque, that manages to sound straight out of 1974 without sounding retro. It is one of the best records of the year, and I wouldn't object too strenuously at all to Mudcrutch II.
Put in the CD Changer on shuffle with: Desparado, Sweethearts of the Rodeo, The Gilded Palace of Sin, You're Gonna Get It
This may well be the best CD of the year May 16, 2008
R. Kyle (USA)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Last year, for me, it was Alison Krauss and Robert Plant's collaboration. This year, it might just be "Mudcrutch." Someone will have to work hard to come up with something better.
Rock and roll isn't dead as long as Tom Petty's around. He's back on the bass and it's like he's come home. Hard to believe this group hasn't played together for many years--it's like they just came home. To me, it also sounds like they're having fun playing.
Best of the CD: "Shady Grove", "Scare Easy," and "Topanga Cowgirl." I also like "Orphan of the Storm" their tribute to Katrina. That's after my first couple of passes. I suspect this CD isn't going to leave my changer anytime soon. I'd put "Mudcrutch" up with the Traveling Wilburys collections anytime.
One final plus: Mudcrutch has given us 14 songs with a running time of 56.7 minutes. I'm happy to see that since a couple of the CDs I've bought recently have been only 10 songs, which seems rather brief to me.
Rebecca Kyle, May 2008
His best in a long time May 5, 2008
Louis J. Perillo (Pensacola, Fl, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the best music Tom Petty has put out in 20 years, and some of the best Country-Rock I've heard in that same period. It must come from reuniting with his roots. It has great melodies, hooks, and rythyms. I'm buying it even though I have unlimited access to the CD via Rhapsody To Go. Highly recommended!
A classic country rock record May 9, 2008
DanD
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
When I heard that MUDCRUTCH was an instant classic, I had my doubts. I shouldn't have--Tom Petty has done it before, has he not?--but I did. Petty, Benmont Tench, and Mike Campbell reuniting with their pre-Heartbreakers band? Exciting and interesting, yes...but perhaps a bit too much of a geezerfest?
Well, I'm an idiot for having any doubts. Mudcrutch--band and album--is great. This is a country rock record like we haven't heard since the Eagls' heyday. The album kicks off with the traditional "Shady Grove," then slides through 13 other numbers, mostly written by Petty (with one apiece from Tench and guitarist/vocalist Tom Leadon, as well as a cover of Roger McGuinn's "Lover of the Bayou" and the country classic "Six Days On the Road," plus another traditional). I won't bother going song-by-song: think of the Eagles, or the Byrds, or the Flying Burrito Brothers, or any other seventies country rock act. Then add in Tom Petty. I can definitely understand this album being called an "instant classic;" no doubt the years will prove that term correct. Whether these guys make another record or not--and I truly hope they will--this self-titled debut will serve as a reminder that great musicians come from great places. Tom Petty and company have proven once again that rock 'n roll still thrives...even if it's with a country shuffle.
Agree with other reviews April 29, 2008
Mark A. Cartier (Portland, Or. USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Excellent CD. This is an excellent CD from start to finish. I didn't think Lover of the Bayou could ever be done better but this cover does for this song what Hendrix did for All Along The Watchtower. Both the originals and the covers are sustained excellence. Short and long songs. Different genres. It sure sounds like they are relaxed and having fun. A relaxed, yet tight record like the first Heartbreaker offering back in 76-77. Tasty stuff.
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