The trek kicks off April 12 at a benefit for The Midnight Mission at Malibu Performing Arts Center and wraps with a four-night run April 25-29 at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.

Other stops include the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium (April 14), the Fillmore in San Francisco (April 16-17), Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara (April 19) and the Ventura Theater (April 20).

Presale tickets for some shows are available to fan club members beginning March 21 at Ticketmaster.com.

For most shows on the Mudcrutch tour, fan club members are limited to four tickets per show with a maximum four tickets per single membership for the entire tour.

Tickets for all shows are will call only. Fans will need to bring a government-issued photo ID and the credit card used to purchase the tickets to the box office window on the night of the show to retrieve these tickets. Once the order is picked up the ticket holder must immediately enter the venue.

In the early ’70s, Mudcrutch earned itself a loyal following in its hometown of Gainesville, Fla., through a series of festivals hosted at its base, Mudcrutch Farm. The festivals were eventually closed down by authorities, but remained a thing of local legend.

The band moved to California and released one single on Shelter Records, “Depot Street” b/w “Wild Eyes,” but the band never cracked the national music scene or made a full album and its members all went on to other ventures.

When keboardist Benmont Tench booked studio time to cut some solo recordings, he invited Petty and Campbell, along with a rhythm section of Stan Lynch and Ron Blair, to play on those sessions. The sessions were never completed, but a new band emerged from them – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Now, more than 30 years later, Petty, Tench and Campbell have reunited with the other members of Mudcrutch to complete what they started with the release of the band’s self-titled 14-track debut.

Why? Petty has what is perhaps the most reasonable answer a musician can offer.

“I guess I started thinking that we left some music back there, and it was time to go and get it,” he said.

Because the album was recorded live, with no overdubs, Mudcrutch is the sound of a five-piece band playing together.

Petty wanted it that way, saying, “I made a commitment at the beginning of the project that I wanted this to be Mudcrutch, done as it was back in the day. I really wanted it to be that band.”