So, now we've seen a D.C. poster - seems plausible that there will be one of these for each show.
I've already acquired a Nashville version so that'll do it for me. Unfortunately, my pockets aren't deep enough to collect one from every venue.
Thanks for posting the photo, Todd N.!
I don't think they will be playing any Heartbreaker songs at a Mudcrutch show and I hope nobody will expect them to do so! It's a Mudcrutch show and that is really, really special! Man, if I were going to a show I would eat that up! You may not get another chance! There will be lots on TPATH shows in the future but Mudcrutch? Savor it! Just savor it! Mudcrutch all the way!
The week starts off with Part 1 of Rolling Stone Magazine Senior Editor and SiriusXM Host David Fricke's "One On One" interview with Tom Petty which took place while the Mudcrutch album was being finished. Some great stories from Petty that you won't want to miss!
Monday – May 30
8am ET / 5am PT – David Fricke “One On One” with Tom Petty Pt. 1 (debut airing)
12 noon ET / 9am PT – Buried Treasure Show #237
4pm ET / 1pm PT – David Fricke “One On One” with Tom Petty Pt. 1
9pm ET / 6pm PT - Buried Treasure Show #237
Tuesday – May 31
10am ET / 7am PT – David Fricke “One On One” with Tom Petty Pt. 1
3pm ET / Noon PT – Buried Treasure Show #237
8pm ET / 5pm PT – David Fricke “One On One” with Tom Petty Pt. 1
11pm ET / 8pm PT - Buried Treasure Show #237
Wednesday – June 1
8am ET / 5am PT - Buried Treasure Show #237
Noon ET / 9am PT – Bill Flanagan’s “Flanagan’s Wake” (debut of Show 5)
6pm ET / 3pm PT – Buried Treasure Show #237
9pm ET / 6pm PT – David Fricke “One On One” with Tom Petty Pt. 1
Thursday – June 2
11am ET / 8am PT – David Fricke “One On One” with Tom Petty Pt. 1
5pm ET / 2pm PT – Buried Treasure Show #161 (repeat due to Mudcrutch tour)
11pm ET / 8pm PT – Bill Flanagan’s “Flanagan’s Wake” (Show 5)
Friday – June 3
9am ET / 6am PT – Bill Flanagan’s “Flanagan’s Wake” (Show 5)
1pm ET / 10am PT – Buried Treasure Show #161 (repeat)
6pm ET / 3pm PT – David Fricke “One On One” with Tom Petty Pt. 1
10pm ET / 7pm PT - Buried Treasure Show #161 (repeat)
Saturday – June 4
11am ET / 8am PT – Buried Treasure Show #161 (repeat)
3pm ET / Noon PT – Bill Flanagan’s “Flanagan’s Wake” (Show 5)
6pm ET / 3pm PT – Buried Treasure Show #161 (repeat)
10pm ET / 7pm PT – Bill Flanagan’s “Flanagan’s Wake” (Show 5)
Sunday – June 5
7am ET / 4am PT – Buried Treasure Show #161 (repeat)
Noon ET / 9am PT – Bill Flanagan’s “Flanagan’s Wake” (Show 5)
6pm ET / 3pm PT – Bill Flanagan’s “Flanagan’s Wake” (Show 5)
10pm ET / 7pm PT - Buried Treasure Show #161 (repeat)
The show was great! It was hotter than hell in the Riviera though! Hard for me to tolerate. Someone said it was 103 degrees in there. Sweat was streaming down my face and it affected my enjoyment of the show. Sorry to focus on that. Otherwise everyone was in fine form and enjoying himself. All the different vocal solos were excellent! I'll try to write more later. Leaving for Nashville in the morning.
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Well alright!
Just returned from the post office where my free "Mudcrutch 2" CDs were patiently waiting for me, as promised.
So, I'm listening very loudly to one copy while I address the second one to my brother's wife, Teri.
She's been a huge Petty fan from day one but doesn't follow music much these days.
That's about to change...
I don't think they will be playing any Heartbreaker songs at a Mudcrutch show and I hope nobody will expect them to do so! It's a Mudcrutch show and that is really, really special! Man, if I were going to a show I would eat that up! You may not get another chance! There will be lots on TPATH shows in the future but Mudcrutch? Savor it! Just savor it! Mudcrutch all the way!
Someone said "gimme Shelter"??
I suppose I already spilled my beans over at the album “premiere” thread. But perhaps it's nevertheless time to share an initial review of proper here as well, now when the album has been spinning more than a handful of times. As it turns out those first impressions of mine seem to last, more or less. Of course, hearing the album in its entirety, the right running order, no talking and so on, did make a difference. For the better, not surprisingly.
Most of my initial “concerns” seemingly becomes buried in the overall greatness of the album. To the extent that this is a far more elaborate and “post-produced” album than its raw and immediate forerunner, this is actually, as it turns out, mostly a theoretical problem. Both the unique qualities here (vs your average Heartbreakers stuff) and the intimate vibe and feel that is so intense on their first album, is very much retained, if achieved at by quite different means. If anything, this second thoughts, more worked, over dubs friendly approach allows still more layers of the music to be discerned. I love the sounds that this album wraps itself in. There’s a warmth to it that still very much translates to similar effects that did the first album, despite the different approach.
All players gets to shine. I love what TP adds as a bass player - always did, I think his groove is amazing, with a swagger a bit more "drawl:ed" (than say Ron - especially Ron w/ Steve on his back - with Howie then a bit back and forth between the two attitudes, perhaps). TP's and RM's rhytm section is tight and loose at the same time in a very interesting and cool sounding way, a nice feel to it, different, quite some distance from the usual Heartbreakers beat, must say. The TL guitar provides an interesting if careful variation to the normal TP guitar, even if the differences (as touched upon in that premiere interview) isn't totally breathtaking (one could imagine hearing more of a difference, perhaps, had TL made some guest appearance in the Heartbreakers context, who knows..) And finally, not surprisingly MC and BT gets a new set of slots, different both in texture, layers and location to let their ya-ya's out, so to speak. Some incredible work by both of them, as usual. Like someone mentioned, this album really is a "revenge" of sorts for BT, being so downplayed on HE in 2014. It really does sound incredibly good for most parts, is what I'm trying to say. The most well sounding album I've heard in a long while.
And, speaking of sound - the harmonies, arranged, recorded and layered for this album, are absolutely wonderful. As for lead vocals, in general they are amazing too. TP provides some of his best ever, IMO (and, admittedly one of his lesser) and MC too sings better than I knew he even could. BT's cool laid back vocal qualities translates so well to this soundscape and musical format. TL cannot really sing, as I see it, but with that in mind, they have managed to make his lead part sound pretty ok. RM may not be too much of a singer either, but somewhat surprisingly (at least to me) his delivery actually catches on and works, at least for this time, for this song, really, really well. It contributes to the feeling of excitement in the song he wrote and I hope - with a sense of dare and worry - that he gets the chance to repeat this delivery live and that he can manage ("eek!"). Good for him. Still, at the end of the day.. the big winner, in terms of news value, has to be MC. After hearing this achievment of his, I am even more fan of the idea of him releasing some stuff in his own name. He really should.
(As far as sound goes, I say all this, having not yet even heard the vinyl edition.)
As for the material. Extremely high standard. And the songs are baked together in such a nice sequence too. Great, great craftmanship! The variety of styles and levels of song writing works surprisingly well too. What could have been a mess in some ways, ends up perfectly tight and focused in vision.
To me, as I hinted already in my first ponderings, Trailer turns out to be a key song in this lot – not that it’s the best, but that it’s the most integral to what I find to be the “Mudcrutch touch” in the music (for lack of better word), thus it functions perfectly as opener, setting the tone, bringing the bunch together in terms of atmosphere. (More over, I don’t get the antagonism between the old and the new versions of the song. To me they quite beautifully represent two parallel dimensions of the song, as it stands on paper, in a way that actually makes both versions better. I can picture a short film where they both play out as a soundtrack.)
Dreams of Flying. Great from the very start, but keeps growing. I still agree, there’s an obvious vintage Petty vibe to this song the way it's written, that may have sat well with The Heartbreakers, or a TP solo session, back in the day. But as it is treated here, I think it works well as a Mudcrutch song... and it keeps getting better. An incredible find of an old song, obviously, but hearing it like this suggests it may have been a good thing it wasn’t out until now, in this fashion. I think they managed to make it 99% their own with this arrangement, and I don't need to think of it as essentially a HB song no more.
Beautiful Blue. Like I said befire, a fantastic song. It has kept growing on me and it also keeps building that certain A-side drama that start this album out so nicely. (2 has got a very strong three song beginning in my view, and with Blue you reach that almost hypnotic level of beauty.) On most other albums, this would have been the show stopper in terms of heartfelt ballads, but..... it says something that in this lot, it's just nr 2...
RM’s addition - Beautiful Word - is another one that keeps growing on me. It may be considered one of the light weight moments of the album, but both the composition and the sound (that I initially found a bit.. flat.. and mechanical) actually turns out to be quite engaging and intense in it's own way. I find myself tapping my foot and singing along. A better song that I thought at first. Light weight, yes, but in a good way. Harmonies and bridge are constructed really cool and the song end up fitting nicely with the album vibe.
I Forgive it All. Such to-the-bone classic, yet unique TP song, that it would have made any set or track list, from any of his bands or projects, a little better. I am glad that it turned up for this album. Adds a certain intensity that blends right in. Also - it seems to me that this is one of these songs in latter years, that finds TP exploring slightly different territories in terms of tonality (w?) and the way the melody is constructed. Thanks to simple arrangements it may not be as easily detected as in the finest moments of Mojo, or in the most clear examples I can think of - Full Grown Boy and Looking for Daddy - but I think it is there somewhere. A certain sense of warped yet classic world class TP. In TP's top 10 ever? What else is there to say..? Pretty, darn perfect song. Pretty darn perfect song! (Btw.. people are what people make 'em, hu? Such a very anti-self-made-man, all-is-possible thing to say, after all. It sounds good, sure.. but does it feel good? There's a double meaning to this, for sure, a bitter sweet sensation in this song, on several level.)
On The Other Side of The Mountain. Still. I think TL’s singing is, well.. bad. It's just bad. But the harmonies and the general production, and the TP vocal parts, actually makes up for it pretty well and it has grown a bit better listening to it a few times. (Funny how that works.) Most of all - this is a really great – bound to be underrated – song. Anyone even remotely familiar with real country music (that is pre-Nashville polish), folk rock or southern rock are bound to take this piece very seriously. Some very good songwriting and quite an upgrade in the craft from The Go-Go Girls of the past. Still it is one of very few small moments on this album, that with a slight wishful alteration (in this case, had TP sung all of the verses...), it would have brought the album the few missing inches into being a 100% perfect one, in my book. I like it more and more though.
Hope. This, on the other hand - thus far, this is the trouble maker of the bunch, in a more serious way. Not that it's a bad song, just that the special Mudcrutch vibe fails to reveal itself to me at all. And this is pretty much the only time that happens on "2". A good enough song that I don't mind hearing as such. It's not that grand, but there's a nice drive and cool retro psych sound to it that I normally love. But the temper, the style and also the vocal delivery (that I still don't particularly care for) doesn't seem to fit the mix very well in this context. It seems too much at odds. It's liable to confuse rather than to add anything, in terms of these songs working as an otherwise perfect album. Like been suggested - this would have been the perfect She's The One song. Sure, I buy that. I suspect they did have something better for this album though.
Welcome to Hell. Well, I spoke my piece already. Light weight by design, but world class delivery and great fun, great stuff! Helps giving the album that certain variety and grandeur, as I see it. It occupies a whole dimension of it's own that lifts the whole disc. To see this as a lone player, a "strange" aside to the main flow of the album is a mistake. It it very much core to what it's all about, I think.
My initial hunch, that Save Your Water could develop into a bit of a Byrdsian Mudcrutch masterpiece, that feels very much at the core to this sound and this experience - both as a great song in it’s own right and as having a uniting, cohesive function in the lot - turned out to be true. Just like Trailer starting off the album doing, this one, to me, ties back to the first album and that "Bayou-side" heart of this band. It has grown a lot on me in just a few listens. It's very good and very much a Mudcrutch song, if I ever heard one. "Sold me down the river..." I think it's bound to be slightly misunderstood though.
Victim of Circumstance. Oh, that driving, buzzing intro... Perhaps my favorite moments on this whole album, perhaps ever, in the entire cataloge of TP/MC. It's so thrilling, makes me giddy with excitement. (Must be similar to what Usain Bolt feels like the split millisecond before pushing out of the starting blocks. The anticipation, the nerves, the tingling sensation.) And then the song starts and delivers such a fun and intense ride. One of the highlights on the album, for sure. Keeps growing still and no doubt will be - this has been said too - great fun to hear them do live. Great energy, great vocals.
Again, I think I said most of what I think of Hungry No More already. Nothing much to add. Is and will be a great song with a certain "classic" touch to it. Already after a few listens it feels like this song's been around for ages. Works to great effect and the sound and arrangements.. ah.. this could be said for almost the whole album, but this song really is dreamy and intense at the same time., the mix is beautiful and the overall effect is... eh.. music to my ears. Ha! And to my mind too! A classic to be, and I agree to all the praise it gets around here, still I'm not sure it's even the second best song on this album.. that's how high a level of stuff most of this is.
In conclusion, I’m really beyond impressed by where these guys are at this point in their careers and lifes. Stunned by the qualities of this album, on several levels. Between Hypnotic Eye and Mudcrutch 2, the TP/BT/MC team, with great help of course, have created some of their very finest and strongest stuff ever, in my view. If the bears are wrestling or dancing is beside the point.. it's even beyond the point. The point is the irresistible swagger. I take a bow.
Trailer Originally the B-Side to Petty and Heartbreakers "Don't Come Around Here No More" greatly improved here with time and age, its pretty much a classic right up there with Tom's best.
Dreams of Flying Tom had this tune from the Wildflowers era and it sounds awesome here with Mudcrutch. Its a solid mid tempo rocks that has an anthemic quality to it and some nice chiming guitars that would sound great on the radio, live, anywhere. This would have been a huge hit late 80's and early 90's and is not unlike many of those.
Beautiful Blue One of those slower well crafted songs where you appreciate each musician and their contribution to its sound. Another Petty song, someone found the lyrics of it and then Tom took it and wrote a tune to it. Mike Campbell and Tom Leadon add some nice guitars with just the right piano fills from Benmont Tench
Beautiful World Drummer Randall Marsh contributes this rather catchy pop rocker with bright guitars and tight harmonies on the chorus and a couple of nice change ups on what the Beatles would call "the middle eight" a brief very And Your Bird can sing guitar solo. Someone else mentioned a "When the Time Comes" similarity but i first heard the first line of Meatloaf's "Bat Out Of Hell"
I Forgive it All A sparse but moving ballad with Petty on acoustic guitar. Offers a great line "People are what they make em"
The Other Side of The Mountain Lively rockabilly/bluegrass number from guitarist Tom Leadon like the harmonies on this tune adds greatly to the albums rich tapestry of down home sounds.
Hope Tom sings in a high register this foot stomper driven by a Hammond Organ with a 60's vibe epecially the guitar breaks that have been fed through a speaker of some sort. Upbeat and optimistic.
Welcome to Hell Benmont's Jerry Lee Lewis inspired offering, often the man right at the back behind the keys for the Heartbreakers he can surely deliver a song really well and this boogie woogie will get you up and dancing, I like it!
Save Your Water Very much like The Byrd's but unmistakably Tom Petty with some notable vocal phrasing and professional harmonies with the band, a great song and great playing by the whole band.
Vicitim of Circumstance Often considered the poorest singer of the bunch guitarist Mike Campbell offers a great rocking tune that would fit nicely on say The Full Moon Fever Album or She's The One Soundtrack. This is a fun number, well written and will slay it live.
Hungry No More A Gimme Shelter vibe permeates this acoustic based closing track and it is a fine song which could fast become another Petty epic.
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