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| Artist: Mudcrutch
Label: Warner Bros.
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 146
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
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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 A classic country rock record May 9, 2008
3 out of 7 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.
Mudcrutch is just great!! May 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tom Petty has struck again by getting back to his true roots as he brings back his Mudcrutch line up to make the Country flavoured album I think that Tom Petty has always wanted to make. Classic status has to go to songs like "Orphan in the Storm", "I Know It's Wrong" and This is a Good Street, Queen of the Go-Go Dancers.
How cool is it when someone after 30 years of success and brings back guys he played with in the beginnings of his career so those guys can perform and make a little bank.
The best part of this Albun is that it's NOT a Heartbreakes album or a Tom Petty solo project. It has a sound all it's own that is right on.
Petty fans will love it, and I think Country music fans will like it too!! Add it to your collection you won't be dissapointed.
 This is what we loved about the 70s May 6, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
When it comes to rock and roll, Tom Petty just knows what works. 'Nuff said.
His best in a long time May 5, 2008
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!
Classic Country Rock, and the Bass Player Looks Familiar May 5, 2008
30 out of 32 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
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