I know you might be Mudcrutch’ed out at this point, but this gives me a good chance to throw a nice plug to one of my favorite blogs, and that would be Sean Daly’s Pop Music blog for the St. Petersburg Times.
Sean is also one half of the blogging team for my other favorite music blog from St. Pete’s, and that would be the fantastic Stuck in the ’80s blog and podcast.
Sean sums up the Mudcrutch album perfectly…
“I’ve been running like a man possessed,” he sings on first single Scare Easy, and you can’t help but think this is the cheapest shrink session he has ever had. With its lazy-river flow and Grateful Dead vibe, Orphan of the Storm is all about seeking salvation. “I’m not the kind that gives up,” Petty sings with all the nasally edge he can muster. “But I’m so tired of rain.”