Mudcrutch

Mudcrutch

Track Listing

1. Shady Grove
2. Scare Easy
3. Orphan Of The Storm
4. Six Days On The Road
5. Crystal River
6. Oh Maria
7. This Is A Good Street
8. The Wrong Thing To Do
9. Queen Of The Go-Go Girls
10. June Apple
11. Lover Of The Bayou
12. Topanga Cowgirl
13. Bootleg Flyer
14. House Of Stone

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-29
• Number of discs: 1

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
"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

Worth a Listen
The obvious elephant in the room with this project is Tom Petty. But, this is far from just a Tom Petty project. This disc is lovingly put together by old friends simply for the joy of music, and the joy of being together.
Lead off track, Shady Grove..( vocals here by Tom Leadon ) sets the stage. It is a comfortable interpretation of a well known song, and Leadons voice fits right in with the bands chugging along style. The second track, Scare Easy sounds the most like it came from a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers disc. Pettys mournful drawl is well suited for this track, and his pursuit for music with values, and his well documented disdain for the music industry is well suited to the lyrics. As one who has never backed down, it is easy to believe Petty doesn't "Scare Easy".

Other stand out tracks are the Roger McGuinn/ Jacques Levy penned:Lover of the Bayou, and Pettys: Crystal River. Both have that loose, in studio feel so absent from todays music. They allow the songs to lead them to just the right point,and then they are done.


I would compare this album to Neil Young and Crazy Horse... Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Both these works have a " band feel ", despite a major solo artist being involved. No leaders here, just musicians.This CD is a delight you will return to for a long time to come.

Maybe these guys checked their egos at the door. Sure sounds like it.

petty
This is Tom Petty in his groove. It's very easy listening, very good road-trip music. I liked Highway Companion, this reminds me of it. I'm not sure where the name Mudcrutch came from, or why he didn't publish under his own name, but Tom's fingerprints are all over this CD. It's a great buy.

Wilburys go country.. Do I need this?
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.