MUDCRUTCH
4/29
When Tom Petty reached out to the former members of Mud-crutch, his pre-Heartbreakers band, about a reunion, they thought he was joking. Support Tickets “But once they really believed me, they got gung-ho,” Petty says. Keyboard¬ist Benmont Tench and guitarist Mike Campbell went on to join the Heartbreakers, but drum¬mer Randall Marsh and guitar¬ist Tom Leadon hadn’t played with Petty since Mudcrutch split up in 1975. The disc’s four¬teen 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.”
STEVE WINWOOD
NINE LIVES 4/29
In Steve Winwood’s old band Traffic, he wrote the music, he says, “as an excuse for us to jam.” A[ine Lives, his debut for Columbia Records, was writ-ten in the same spirit, with the songs born out of jams with his longtime touring band and fleshed out at Winwood’s stu¬dio in Gloucester, England. email address
