External Combustion

Description

Just over a year after the very good 'Wreckless Abandon', Mike Campbell (the famous composer and guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Fleetwood Mac) is back with The Dirty Knobs for this new 2022 vintage: 'External Combustion'. An album recorded in 3 weeks during the summer of 2021 that truly embodies the musical "combustion" within the same band members, as heard on the excellent "Wicked Mind" or the catchy "Brigitte Bardot"! Mike Campbell co-produced the follow-up to 2020's 'Wreckless Abandon' with George Drakoulias. Recorded last summer at Campbell's home studio in Los Angeles, Hocus Pocus Recorders, the album features guest appearances from Margo Price and Ian Hunter (of Mott the Hoople). Additionally, the guitarist and his bandmates Jason Sinay (guitar), bassist Lance Morrison, and drummer Matt Laug are joined by Benmont Tench, Campbell's co-founding Heartbreakers member, on piano for the track "Lightning Boogie." "The band has become that type of spontaneous combustion – to borrow a word," Campbell said in a press release regarding the band's evolution. "The longer we played, the more intuitive it got." While most of the material on 'External Combustion' was written by Mike Campbell over the past year, the album also contains two songs written in the 1990s that the guitarist rediscovered in his vast trove of unreleased compositions.