Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch (Deluxe) '2008

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Shady Grove
02. Scare Easy
03. Orphan of the Storm
04. Six Days on the Road
05. Crystal River
06. Oh Maria
07. This Is a Good Street
08. The Wrong Thing to Do
09. Queen of the Go-Go Girls
10. June Apple
11. Lover of the Bayou
12. Topanga Cowgirl
13. Bootleg Flyer
14. House of Stone
15. Special Place

Formed in Gainesville, FL, in 1970, Mudcrutch were essentially a precursor to
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, with a then 17-year-old Tom Petty on bass, Mike
Campbell and Tom Leadon (the brother of ex-Eagle Bernie Leadon) on guitars,
Benmont Tench on keyboards, and Randall Marsh on drums. Popular on the Florida
bar circuit, Mudcrutch relocated to L.A. in 1974 and was offered a recording
contract from Leon Russell and Denny Cordells Shelter Records, but the band
splintered before any significant recording was completed, although Petty
remained under contract to Shelter as a solo artist. In time, the band drifted
back together, this time with Petty and Campbell on guitars, Tench on keyboards,
and a rhythm section of Ron Blair on bass and Stan Lynch on drums. Calling
themselves Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, they assumed Pettys solo contract with
Shelter Records and released the self-titled Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers LP on
the label in 1976. The rest, as they say, is history. In the summer of 2007,
Petty, Campbell, Tench, Leadon, and Marsh reunited as Mudcrutch and recorded an
album, the self-titled Mudcrutch, which was released a year later in 2008 on
Reprise Records. The band followed the album with a limited tour. The EP
Mudcrutch Extended Play Live was also released in 2008, featuring four songs
done in concert performance. Mudcrutch reconvened in 2015 to begin work on a
second album. The resulting 2 appeared in May of 2016.

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