Tom Petty’s Mudcrutch Announces New Album & Tour Dates

Later this year, Tom Petty will reunite his pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch for the group’s first national tour and the release of their second album. The LP titled 2 will be issued via Reprise Records on May 20 ahead of the start of the band’s tour.

2 was produced by band members Tom Petty and Mike Campbell with Ryan Ulyate and can be pre-ordered via MudcrutchMusic.com. Those who pre-order the digital format of the album, or the vinyl format on the band’s official website, will receive downloads of three tracks, including the first single “Trailer,” in advance of the May 20th album release date.

Mudcrutch will kick off their first national tour at Denver’s Ogden Theater on May 26 ahead of an appearance at this year’s Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, Illinois on May 29. The band will also perform in Nashville, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New York City, Port Chester, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles before closing the tour at The Observatory in Santa Ana, California on June 28. Los Angeles rockers The Shelters have been tapped as support. Tickets for all headlining shows go up for grabs Friday, April 1 at 10 a.m. local time. Each online ticket purchased for the headline tour includes a CD copy of the new album, 2.

Here’s more info on the genesis of Mudcrutch and the band’s history:

Mudcrutch was initially formed in 1970 in Gainesville, Florida and is the precursor to the legendary Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Tom Petty (bass/vocals), Tom Leadon (guitar/vocals), Benmont Tench (keyboards/vocals), Mike Campbell (guitar/vocals), and Randall Marsh (drums/vocals) make up the band’s current line up. In 1974, Mudcrutch was signed to Shelter Records and moved to Los Angeles where they released one single, “Depot Street,” to very little fanfare. The band broke up in 1975 and could have settled for being a legend, but instead Mudcrutch rose from the ashes in 2008 to remind us that the golden age of rock and roll bands still had a few treasures to unearth. Their debut, made some thirty-three years later, was an unexpected hit.

2 Tracklist

1. Trailer
2. Dreams of Flying
3. Beautiful Blue
4. Beautiful World
5. I Forgive It All
6. The Other Side Of The Mountain
7. Hope
8. Welcome To Hell
9. Save Your Water
10. Victim of Circumstance
11. Hungry No More