Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs Chase Ghosts and New Horizons on ‘Mission of Mercy’ (ALBUM REVIEW) (opens in new tab)

As of Mission of Mercy, the new album from Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, Campbell is four albums into a project that began as his anonymous bar band in 2004. However, he didn’t release a record until 2020. According to Campbell in his memoir Heartbreaker, as well as Tom Petty’s biographer Warren Zanes, the idea of Campbell fronting a band was not well received by his boss. “It sounds like a bad impression of me,” was Petty’s response to a tape of demos Campbell had sent him. But Campbell k...