That’s when I started just writing to them myself for fun, just to see what they would sound like.” Wreckless Abandon is the debut album by American rock band The Dirty Knobs.

The album was largely recorded live to tape in frontman Mike Campbell's home studio and include compositions that he had written over the course of almost 20 years with the band.

[8] Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3 out of 5 stars, with critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing that "Wreckless Abandon is noisier, dirtier, and sometimes heavier than a Heartbreakers record, a tendency that's leavened by the group's fondness for melody and a distinct sense of good humor that bubbles up".

[1] In American Songwriter, Lee Zimmerman scored this release 3 out of 5 stars, praising the group's rock pedigree, but criticizing that "it leaves little that hasn’t been rehashed dozens of times before".

[9] In Classic Rock, Neil Jeffries gave this album 4 out of 5 stars, comparing the work to J. J. Cale, John Lee Hooker, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.