Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs - Wreckless Abandon

Mike Campbell formed the Dirty Knobs back in the 2000s, using it as a creative outlet whenever Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers weren't in the middle of a project. Following Petty's tragic 2017 death, Campbell decided it was time for the band to record their first album, a process that was complicated slightly by the guitarist deciding to take a gig in Fleetwood Mac's 50th anniversary tour. The Mac shows delayed the release of Wreckless Abandon (as did the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020), but the Dirty Knobs make the kind of music that isn't strictly tied to the calendar; they're not following fashion, they're sticking to their own groove. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the band's groove is quite reminiscent of that of the Heartbreakers, drawing from the same love of British Invasion, hard rock, blues, guitar pop, and garage. The difference is, the Dirty Knobs are lead by a guitarist, so Wreckless Abandon is noisier, dirtier, and sometimes heavier than a Heartbreakers record, a tende