Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, the third album by Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs, 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.
Those LPs, Campbell says, were the Dirty Knobs "trying to find our way as a rock & roll band. Now it's down to great songs, the depth in the lyrics and chords." He recalls something Petty once told him: "Tom said, 'I love the English language. There's so much you can do with it.' I'm discovering that too. Looking for rhyme schemes, the right words – at first, it was a struggle. "Now that door has opened," he says. "I've turned a corner" on Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits. The Dirty Knobs are "still a rock band but growing into different feels." Support the artists buying the record.
Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, the third album by Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs, 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.
Those LPs, Campbell says, were the Dirty Knobs "trying to find our way as a rock & roll band. Now it's down to great songs, the depth in the lyrics and chords." He recalls something Petty once told him: "Tom said, 'I love the English language. There's so much you can do with it.' I'm discovering that too. Looking for rhyme schemes, the right words – at first, it was a struggle. "Now that door has opened," he says. "I've turned a corner" on Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits. The Dirty Knobs are "still a rock band but growing into different feels." Support the artists buying the record.
