Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Alan Light wrote in the New York Times: "Thirty-two years after the band broke up, Tom Petty has reassembled Mudcrutch, the group he started in his native Gainesville, Fla., and moved to Los Angeles, seeking stardom. Mudcrutch didn’t hit it big back in the 1970s, but out of the band’s ashes Mr. Petty created the Heartbreakers, who have generated a staggering stream of hits for three decades. … About two years ago, Mr. Petty, 57, said, 'I just had this random thought: "I really liked that band, I wonder what it would be like to get them together."' … Last August [Tom] Leadon and [Randall] Marsh flew to California and stayed at Mr. Petty’s home in Malibu; the next day the three joined up with [Mike] Campbell and [Benmont] Tench, the lead guitarist and keyboard player in the Heartbreakers, who are also Mudcrutch alumni. 'When Tom called me and said he wanted to do this,' Mr. Campbell said, 'my first reaction was, why?' Mr. Marsh said: 'I thought we’d come in here, do a few songs, it would be nice to see everybody. But I think Tom had some kind of insight that something would happen'" ("Running …," 4/20/08).