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Country music is in the DNA of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ catalog. Decades ago, before the Heartbreakers even existed in their full form, Petty was playing country songs in what he would later describe as “real redneck country” Floridian bars, trying to earn a living as a burgeoning performer. “[The crowd was] always kind of weirded out by us because we had long hair, playing country music,” Petty said in 2005’s *[Conversations With Tom Petty](https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Tom-Petty-Paul-Zollo/dp/1787601625). “And that was completely unheard of in those days.”* Petty’s country inf...
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Mike Campbell has been making records since the ’70s, most famously as a member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. “I’m grateful that I was part of that whole experience,” Campbell recently told UCR, speaking to his Heartbreaker days. It’s been a full decade since the band released their last album, 2014’s Hypnotic Eye, and six and a half years since Petty’s passing, which effectively ended the Heartbreakers. Campbell describes himself as “still grieving,” but tries not to spend too much time dwelling. “If I think about it too hard, I’ll just get sad,” he says. In the past four years, he’s ke...
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Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs will release a new album, Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, on June 14. The LP features guests Graham Nash, Lucinda Williams, Chris Stapleton and Campbell’s own former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bandmate, Benmont Tench. This is the Knobs’ third album, but according to Campbell, many of its songs have been sitting in his archive for years. “Back in the day, I would write songs and then give them to my partner Tom, and that’s all I ever did with them,” he toldRolling Stone. “I gave him so much he couldn’t possibly ever deal with it all. I stuck a lot up on the ...
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Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs will release a new album, Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, on June 14. The LP features guests Graham Nash, Lucinda Williams, Chris Stapleton and Campbell’s own former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bandmate, Benmont Tench. “It was spiritual,” Campbell toldRolling Stone of his experience making the album in his Los Angeles home studio earlier this year. “I got a little wistful about Tom because we had been there together, and I stood where we had set up with Mudcrutch originally in that room. I got a lot of flashbacks of sweet memories.” This is the Knobs’ third ...
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