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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-29
• Number of discs: 1

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.

Customer Reviews

Worth The Wait
Any true Tom Petty fan will absolutely love what they hear on this recording. Everything I could ask and more. Tom and his buddies of Mudcrutch prove that the "Powers That Be" did'nt know any more back then, about what a great album should sound like than they do now.

Man! This is a good album!
I'm a fan of Tom Petty ( though NOT Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- go figure!). I've listened to both albums one after another numerous times & the Heatbreakers always leave me cold, but Tom Petty's work is terrific (except for "Highway Companion" which I thought was a bunch of tunes that didn't make it onto other TP albums- for good reason!).
I love Tom Petty's work in the Traveling Wilburys, too...
I didn't know anything about Mudcrutch; didn't know I was "waiting " for it!
This sounds to me very much like a lot of the music that came out of San Francisco in the late 60's & early 70's. That musical era/ musical explosion of ideas ushered in what was probably the most creative & & far reaching period in American music!
That's a pretty serious legacy to call upon & these guys deliver! I loved the choices they made too! The songs are, of course mainly written by Tom Petty, but they fit in so well with the ones that were written by someone else (Including a Roger Mcguinn tune!).
The playing sounds like an album that was recorded in 1970 & inexplicably forgotten, then remastered "last week" & released. It's clean & well thought out- Nothing there that doesn't need to be there; everything there that does! Perhaps that's "maturity" in evidence. I don't know.
The vocals, again are mostly Tom Petty, but other voices come to the fore to add a vocal richness that is not evident on Heartbreaker albums.
There are a couple of "Heartbreakers" with Petty on this album, but it's the "new" people that flesh out the sound so effectively & so satisfyingly. This is a "must" for any sort of Tom Petty fan.

They Get That Grateful Dead Vibe Going...On Some of the Record

I've always liked Tom Petty, although at times, he tends to be content to flow in the mainstream. Looking at a recent setlist from his current tour, it consists mostly of his big hits. Nothing wrong with big hits, but for me, Petty shines best when he veers off the beaten path a little and does things like The Traveling Wilburys, or jams with Dylan, etc.

I'll confess right now that I haven't purchased every single Tom Petty record because several are kind of mainstream and at times, less than consistent. That said, I do own a handful of his albums that have held up nicely over time.

When this "side project" (it really isn't, in that the lineup is 90% Heartbreakers, but I digress) record came out, some reviewers commented that it evokes an early Grateful Dead vibe, and I read several comparisons to "American Beauty". That being an all time classic record, I decided to buy Mudcrutch.

Jerry Garcia always enjoyed playing the old bluegrass standard "Shady Grove", and recorded it on several albums with his bluegrass buddy David "Dawg" Grisman.

Mudcrutch begins, appropriately, with a good interpretation of "Shady Grove". Then, there's a couple of so-so songs, but the Grateful Dead vibe really kicks in full throttle with "Crystal House". That song, along with at least 3 or 4 more, retains the Grateful Dead spirit, even extending the jams to nearly 10 minutes.

Out of 14 songs on the record, there are 2 or 3 throwaways, but overall, Mudcrutch is Petty and his buddies at their best.