Spring '08 LPs From Madonna, Coldplay, The Roots, Mudcrutch, Elvis Costello : Rolling Stone

Mudcrutch

Mudcrutch 4/29

When Tom Petty reached out to the former members of Mudcrutch, his pre-Heartbreakers band, about a reunion, they thought he was joking. "But once they really believed me, they got gung-ho," Petty says. Keyboardist Benmont Tench and guitarist Mike Campbell went on to join the Heartbreakers, but drummer Randall Marsh and guitarist Tom Leadon hadn't played with Petty since Mudcrutch split up in 1975. The disc's fourteen new songs (every group member sings at least one) were cut in just two weeks at Petty's Malibu home studio. "It has an edgy country-rock feel," Petty says. "I had to calm myself down at night, I was having so much fun."