Tom P*tty & Mudcrutch - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 6-14-2016

Yesterday, I posted an announcement (and a poll) about a leak of dozens of soundboard bootleg recordings from a venue in Port Chester, New York. I encourage people to tell me which ones they would most like to see put up on this blog. But in the meanwhile, today I listened to one of the concerts I was most interested in, Tom P*tty with his band Mudcrutch. (Note that I'm still using the * in the name just to be extra careful with the copyright police.) As I listened to the single music file, I chopped the songs into mp3s, as I often do, and added in the song names and such. Here's the result.

The main reason I was keen on listening to this concert is that P*tty put out two albums with his band Mudcrutch in 2008 and 2016, but while many audience bootlegs have emerged, this is the first one I know of with soundboard level quality. 

By the way, Mudcrutch was Petty's band in the early 1970s, before they morphed into the Heartbreakers (and before they had a chance to release an album). A couple of key members, Mike Campbell and Benmont Trench, were in both bands, since way back then. But starting in 2008, P*tty, Campbell, and Trench reunited with other former Mudcrutch members, Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh, after about 40 years of not playing together in a band.

When performing concerts like this one, the reunited Mudcrutch insisted on performing only Mudcrutch songs, no songs P*tty put on his other albums with or without the Heartbreakers. So if you're looking for versions of his classic hits, you won't find them here. A few of the songs are covers: "Shady Grove," "Six Days on the Road," "Lover of the Bayou," and " Knockin' on Heaven's Door." All of those except "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" were included in the band's 2008 album, "Mudcrutch."

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long. 

The song list lacks mentions of you know who, for the reason mentioned above. But you can find that version of this list included in the download zip. 

01 talk
02 Shady Grove
03 talk
04 Orphan of the Storm
05 talk
06 Six Days on the Road
07 talk
08 Scare Easy
09 talk
10 Trailer
11 talk
12 This Is a Good Street
13 Lover of the Bayou
14 talk
15 Beautiful World
16 talk
17 Dreams of Flying
18 talk
19 Save Your Water
20 talk
21 Hungry No More
22 talk
23 I Forgive It All
24 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
25 talk
26 The Other Side of the Mountain
27 talk
28 Hope
29 Welcome to Hell
30 talk
31 Victim of Circumstance
32 The Wrong Thing to Do
33 Bootleg Flyer
34 talk
35 Crystal River

https://pixeldrain.com/u/pfcZ4TtD

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/8ieGP6jACUopOq1/file

The cover image shows Tom performing with Mudcrutch at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on June 25, 2016.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Mystery of Love - Non-Album Tracks (2010-2016)

This is the last of eight stray tracks albums I've made for Tom P., when he played either with Mudcrutch or the Heartbreakers. This deals with the last few years of his life. Tom P., rest in peace.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

Some of the songs come from the "An American Treasure" box set, and one is a bonus track. Three more are P.'s contributions to a tribute album to J. J. Cale put together by Eric Clapton.

Three more songs actually don't have P. involved at all, but are solo works from key Heartbreakers Mike Campbell or Benmont Tench. So far, Campbell has released very little solo material, and his song here, "Feelin' High," is from a very obscure single. But I think it's a worthy song, and he also happens to sing a lot like P. Tench put out a solo album in 2014, and I've only included what I considered the two best songs.

There's another three songs on this album which are frustratingly obscure: "Mystery of Love," "Lookin' for Daddy," and "How Much Do You Need." They haven't been released on any physical format at all, but were played on P.'s radio show in the year before his death. They're good songs, and hopefully this album will help give them more exposure.

Although this is the last of the P. stray tracks albums, I have a lot more of his material to post. P. liked to perform cover songs in concert. I've created an even longer series of albums just containing all of those live covers. That'll be coming soon.

This album is 53 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Koz1XqfN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/xbjwxYriOQ4tmKf/file

I'm not sure when the photo I used for the cover art was taken, but it looks to be from the last years of P.'s life. I think having him bow out is a fitting cover for an album of music near the end of his life.

Tom P*tty & Mudcrutch - I Can't Fight It - Non-Album Tracks (1973-1975)

Before Tom P.'s long career with the Heartbreakers began in 1976, he played with Mudcrutch from about 1971 to 1975. Actually, it's more like Mudcrutch morphed into the Heartbreakers, since some key guys were in both. Strangely, P. got Mudcrutch together for a new album and tour in 2008, and then another new album and tour in 2016. 

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

But the music of the original 1970s version of Mudcrutch has largely been forgotten. I'm guessing P. felt these were his formative years, and most of his music from then wasn't up to snuff compared to what he did later. But I beg to differ. I've assembled an album of Mudcrutch's best stuff that I think holds its own with some of the early albums with the Heartbreakers.

Seven of the 12 songs here were released in excellent sound quality on the "Playback" box set. Another one was released on the "An American Treasure" box set. Two more have very good sound quality because they were officially released at the time as B-sides. (Mudcrutch only released two singles during its 1970s existence.) But for one of the B-sides, "Wild Eyes," I replaced a section of the song near the beginning with a repeat of the same section later in the song, due to lots of pops and crackles. There still are some pops, but hopefully it's not nearly as noticeable as it was.

That leaves just two songs that are still officially unreleased on this album. Actually, they have a bunch of other songs that have shown up on bootlegs, but I feel those aren't good enough to make to cut.

I decided to include Mudcrutch's version of "Don't Do Me like That" even though P. redid the song in 1979 and had a big hit with it then. I think this version is nearly as good, and should have been a hit for Mudcrutch. "I Can't Fight It" is the other clear standout, in my book. Unfortunately, they used the F-word in it, probably preventing them from releasing it at the time.

By the way, the band was just called "Mudcrutch," But I've gone with "Tom P. & Mudcrutch" in the mp3 files so these can come up if one is searching one's music collection for Tom P. songs

This album is 41 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/79Si5kZi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/3FynXPvik8GuXZK/file

For the cover art, I originally used a cover I found on the Internet, but I don't remember where I got it from. The version I found was mostly tinted, but there were some places where the colorizing didn't look right, so I tinted it. I added the album title at the bottom, but "Mudcrutch" was already on the image.

However, later on, I figured out how to do decent colorizations using the program Pixbim, so I found a different photo of the band, from a photo shoot in December 1974, and I colorized that. I've included the old version down here, since it's a totally different photo.