.govtmuleband is back on the road supporting the band's latest studio release, “Heavy Load Blues,” and will be in Alabama this week for two shows.
Warren Haynes first met Gregg Allman in 1981. Back then Haynes was a rising guitarist in outlaw country singer David Allan Coe’s band and Allman was already a Southern rock legend from the music he made with Allman Brothers Band in the ‘70s.
In the mid ‘90s, Haynes founded a new band called Gov’t Mule. The group, which also featured drummer Matt Abts and Allmans bassist Allen Woody, were a power-trio, in the vein of classic groups like Mountain and Cream. Improvisational rock band Gov't Mule. From left: drummer Matt Abts, keyboardist Danny Louis, bassist Jorgen Carlsson and singer/guitarist Warren Haynes.
On a recent afternoon, Haynes checked in for a 20-minute phone interview from his home in New York state. Edited excerpts are below. But this has been one of those situations where we’ve all gone through the same thing, and we all know it and it’s been tough on everybody. Psychologically, physically, mentally, financially.
That song, I always love that tune the original version that came out I think in like 1965, with Junior and with Buddy Guy, it was a great version, but it was only about two-and-a-half minutes long. We were talking about stretching it out, and came up with this idea of putting another instrumental piece in the middle of the tune, so that’s what we did. And it turned out to be one of the more interesting arrangements on the record, I think.
Well, I wrote it in my car, driving around. I was living in Nashville at the time, so this was late ‘80s, and I was driving around, and I got this song in my head, and I didn’t have a guitar and I didn’t have a pen and paper. And I was in traffic. And so I just kept singing it over and over, until I could find my way home so I could put it down because I didn’t want to forget it.
Well, I love “Dose” and “Life Before Insanity.” I think song for song those are both really strong records and Allen Woody presence is felt really strongly on both of those records.
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