Mike Campbell wrote 'The Boys Of Summer' then Tom Petty passed on it. How would the song have turned out if Tom Petty liked ...

Mike Campbell’s new book details long journey from his underprivileged upbringing in Florida through the Heartbreakers' rise ...

Benmont Tench was a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and has spent decades as a session musician and ...

Heartbreaker: A Memoir by Mike Campbell article by Doug Collette, published on April 27, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Book Review articles ...

After the end of Mudcrutch, Petty co-founded the Heartbreakers ... and-Death Situation While working on the Heartbreakers' 1985 album Southern Accents, Campbell one day, he took a bump of what ...

Mike Campbell understands the importance of matching his electric guitar tone to whatever song he’s playing. It’s a well-honed sense that was in clear evidence when Tom Petty & the ...

Petty convinced Campbell to drop out of college and join his band Mudcrutch full-time ... While working on the Heartbreakers' 1985 album Southern Accents, Campbell one day, he took a bump ...

That album [Mudcrutch] is really in my top five things I’ve ever done. And so I think, rather than closure, it kind of opened the door to another place to go musically.” Rather fittingly, Petty’s ...

It was several years later when Tench quit school and joined Petty in MudCrutch. In 1976 ... demand studio musician and has released two solo albums. His latest, “The Melancholy Season ...