Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs – Vagabonds, Virgins, & Misfits LP For Cheap

Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, the third album by Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs, opens with a song about the one thing every rock band on the road needs to feel alive and going forward, night after night: the crowd. Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits ends like a gig too. Amanda Lynn is a brief dance of mandolins originally recorded as the walk-out music at Dirty Knobs shows. In-between, Campbell, guitarist Chris Holt, bassist Lance Morrison and drummer Matt Laug have made the most expansive and dynamic album of the Dirty Knobs one-of-a-kind ride: founded in 2000 by the leader as a writing and club-date project outside the Heartbreakers; finally getting on record with 2020 s Wreckless Abandon and 2022 s External Combustion, both made with Drakoulias.