Older Heartbreakers stuff was good, LOVE the song "Mary Jane's Last Dance", and like the Mudcrutch stuff. He lost me when he became hip (i.e. worked with Jeff Lynne and became the darling of Rolling Stone). I got to see him twice, though and both times were rockin' affairs (one was the "Strange Behavior" tour in '89, and one was the "Dogs With Wings" tour in '95). I thought it was a rip, though, that he and the Heartbreakers were in the RnRHoF in what, their second year of eligibility when other, more deserving acts were still out. I know for me growing up in the late 70's, early 80's, he was a minor artist, relatively speaking.
Sad to see him go, though, at 66. By all accounts the new tour was going well.