External Combustion, the new album from Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, is set for release on March 4 via BMG. Recorded last summer, the record is Mike Campbell's second as a band leader, following ...

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Mike Campbell certainly isn't trying to be the spirit incarnate of the late Tom Petty. But he comes by it honestly. Campbell spent 40 years by Petty's side in the Heartbreakers and was one of his ...

Even after more than fifty years in the music business, where he’s attained legendary status thanks to his work with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, guitarist Mike Campbell hasn’t become jaded about ...

External Combustion, the new album from Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, is out now on BMG. The new music has already begun to receive praise; Forbes calls it, "...an infectious new album called to ...