External Combustion

External Combustion
A photo of Mike Campbell leaning in a doorway next to a guitar
Studio album by
Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs
ReleasedMarch 4, 2022 (2022-03-04)
StudioHocus Pocus Recorders, California, US
GenreRock[1]
Length44:42
LanguageEnglish
LabelBMG
Producer
Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs chronology
Wreckless Abandon
(2020) 		External Combustion
(2022)

You're right, I do write a lot. In some ways, staying home and not being able to tour was kind of normal for me. Because when I'm home, I'm very active with writing and I have a studio here. That didn't slow me down. I was regretful that we couldn't do the tour. But I think all of those dates are still sold and ready to go now. You know, some of the songs, I've noticed as I look back at them, I don't write about specific things necessarily. But as I look back at this album we just did, some of the lyrics seem to be indirectly about being isolated and trying to find a better world than you're in. [Laughs] So it might have been subliminal.

—Frontman Mike Campbell on writing, recording, and planning his first tour after the COVID-19 pandemic[2]

External Combustion is the second studio album by American rock band Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs. The album was released by BMG Rights Management in 2023 to positive reviews and was supported by the first large-scale tour from the band,[3] which included cover songs from Campbell's former group Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,[4] as well as songs from the band's debut album Wreckless Abandon.[5]

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