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Maybe it was autumn years' nostalgia that inspired the issue of a Mudcrutch debut LP some 34 years after the band first formed, but Tom Petty's swagger here rivals any of his work as a younger man. Like many a geezer jam session, it opens with group vocals on a comfortable traditional (in this case, "Shady Grove"), but the album quickly rights itself with a slightly menacing single, "Scare Easy." The country inflections and wilting slide guitars that hold things together are played with cool sophistication, the answer to the prayers of Allman Brothers fans.
- Nate Cavalieri
Even a dude with a track record as golden as Tom Petty's needs to reflect on paths not
taken. Mudcrutch, Petty's pre-Heartbreakers band, released a single and little else in the
mid-Seventies. And that's too bad, since they reunite here for a hot country-rock set that
clearly aspires to, and gets within spitting distance of, genre classics like Sweetheart of the
Rodeo
, The Gilded Palace of Sin and American Beauty. If the Heartbreakers had... More >
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- WILL HERMES
 

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