{"id":5103,"date":"2012-02-29T02:18:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T09:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2012-02-29T02:18:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T09:18:13","slug":"warren-haynes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/warren-haynes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WARREN HAYNES"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"WARREN HAYNES<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A powerhouse guitarist stands alone to put his stamp on a classic sound \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Between his very high-profile day jobs in Gov\u2019t\u00a0Mule and the Allman Brothers Band, virtuoso guitarist Warren Haynes isn\u2019t lacking for musical outlets. But when he found himself with a batch of songs that weren\u2019t suited to either group, he diverted them to Man in Motion<\/em>, his first solo studio album since 1993. \u201cThey were songs I\u2019d written that I\u2019d always wanted to record, but wasn\u2019t sure they fit with any project,\u201d Haynes says. \u201cThey seemed to cry out for a different treatment, more of a soul-blues treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tunes on Man in Motion<\/em> were inspired by his love for classic soul by the likes of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave, as well as the fiery playing of blues\u2019 beloved three Kings\u2014B.B., Albert and Freddie. \u201cA lot of these songs could have been interpreted as Gov\u2019t Mule songs, but we\u2019ve not gone quite that traditional in the past,\u201d he says. \u201cSo it made sense to make a whole record\u00a0of songs that were a departure.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few of the songs on Motion<\/em> date back a decade or more, but Haynes wrote most of them over the past few years. He then headed to Willie Nelson\u2019s studio outside Austin, where he spent six days recording with a band comprising what he calls \u201ca wish list of first choices\u201d: bassist George Porter Jr. of the Meters, keyboardist Ivan Neville, drummer Raymond Webber, saxophonist Ron Holloway and folk-blues singer Ruthie Foster, along with veteran Faces and Rolling Stones pianist Ian McLagan. \u201cI was friends with everyone except Ian, who I didn\u2019t meet until we got into the studio,\u201d Haynes says. \u201cBut we became good friends, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Appropriate for a musician so well-versed in improvisation, Haynes let the songs take shape in the studio. \u201cNobody is playing a set part, we\u2019re just playing moment by moment,\u201d he explains. \u201cEverybody\u2019s putting their personality into the music. Nobody knows what they\u2019re going to play until they hear what somebody else is playing. There is more jamming on this record than on the average soul record or blues record, but it\u2019s all based on call-and-response and communication.\u201d Haynes plans to make another Gov\u2019t Mule album next, and discussion of a new Allmans studio effort is afoot. Still, he hasn\u2019t ruled out making another solo album. \u201cThe next record would be coming more from a singer-songwriter direction, maybe starting with a lot of acoustic instruments,\u201d says Haynes, 51. \u201cI listen to so many different types of music that at some point I\u2019d like\u00a0to make a lot of different records.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Eric R. Danton<\/strong><\/p>\n


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WARREN HAYNES A powerhouse guitarist stands alone to put his stamp on a classic sound \u00a0 Between his very high-profile day jobs in Gov\u2019t\u00a0Mule and the Allman Brothers Band, virtuoso guitarist Warren Haynes isn\u2019t lacking for musical outlets. But when he found himself with a batch of songs that weren\u2019t suited to either group, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[3032,10156,2377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}