Live...With a Little Help from Our Friends

Performer: Gov't Mule
Artist: Randall Bramblett; Chuck Leavell; Derek Trucks; Bernie Worrell; Jimmy Herring; Marc Ford
Producer: Gov't Mule
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Gov't Mule: Warren Haynes (vocals, guitar); Allen Woody (bass); Matt Abts (drums). Additional personnel includes: Derek Trucks, Chuck Leavell, Bernie Worrell, Marc Ford, Randall Bramblett, Jimmy Herring. Recorded live at The Roxy, Atlanta, Georgia on December 31, 1998. Disc 4 is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Gov't Mule: Warren Haynes (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Allen Woody (mandolin, bass, background vocals); Matt Abts (drums, djembe). Additional personnel includes: Marc Ford (vocals, guitar); Derek Trucks (guitar, slide guitar); Jimmy Herring (guitar); Randall Bramblett (soprano & tenor saxophones); Chuck Leavell (piano, Wurlitzer piano, organ); Bernie Worrell (Wurlitzer piano, organ, Clavinet); Yonrico Scott (percussion). Recorded live at The Roxy, Atlanta, Georgia on December 31, 1998 & Water Studios, Hoboken, New Jersey. Includes liner notes by Warren Haynes. Personnel: Marc Ford (vocals, guitar, background vocals); Warren Haynes (vocals, guitar); Derek Trucks, Jimmy Herring (guitar); Allen Woody (mandolin, double bass, bass guitar, background vocals); Randall Bramblett (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Chuck Leavell (piano, organ, Wurlitzer organ); Bernie Worrell (Clavinet, organ, Wurlitzer organ); Matt Abts (drums); Yonrico Scott (percussion). Audio Mixer: Michael Barbiero. Recording information: Roxy Theatre, Atlanta, GA (12/31/1998); The Roxy Theatre, Atlanta, GA (12/31/1998). Editor: Steve Fallone. Photographer: Stacey Orzell. A bad-ass among bad-asses, former Allman Brothers guitarist Warren Haynes shook the pillars of Atlanta's Roxy with Gov't Mule at this New Year's show. Presented on LIVE are two discs worth of highlights, with guest appearances by such firebrands as Jimmy Herring, Bernie Worrell and Chuck Leavell. Who other than these boys would do such powerful renditions of Black Sabbath, Elmore James, Neil Young and Coltrane tunes all in the same night? Midnight is rung in with the Sabbath doomsday classic, "War Pigs." The Mule pays tribute by closely following the original sound. "Mr. Big" proves to be particularly ferocious here, with Marc Ford pouring molten guitar all around. Warren comes out as the filthy-good slide player he is on "Look On Yonder Wall," with boogie piano by Leavell. Mr. Worrell holds church with his double-organ intro to Warren's own "Soulshine." Allen Woody's bass playing is dexterous throughout, a fine complement to Matt Abts' dead-on kit-bashing. This is torch-bearing hard rock to make Granny smile real big. A bad-ass among bad-asses, former Allman Brothers guitarist Warren Haynes shook the pillars of Atlanta's Roxy with Gov't Mule at this New Year's show. Presented on LIVE are two discs worth of highlights, with guest appearances by such firebrands as Jimmy Herring, Bernie Worrell and Chuck Leavell. Who other than these boys would do such powerful renditions of Black Sabbath, Elmore James, Neil Young and Coltrane tunes all in the same night? Midnight is rung in with the Sabbath doomsday classic, "War Pigs." The Mule pays tribute by closely following the original sound. "Mr. Big" proves to be particularly ferocious here, with Marc Ford pouring molten guitar all around. Warren comes out as the filthy-good slide player he is on "Look On Yonder Wall," with boogie piano by Leavell. Mr. Worrell holds church with his double-organ intro to Warren's own "Soulshine." Allen Woody's bass playing is dexterous throughout, a fine complement to Matt Abts' dead-on kit-bashing. This is torch-bearing hard rock to make Granny smile real big.

Rolling Stone (4/29/99, p.70) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...Whether stomping like a brontosaurus or swinging like a bebop band, the Mule make every note burn." Rolling Stone (4/29/99, p.70) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...Whether stomping like a brontosaurus or swinging like a bebop band, the Mule make every note burn." Entertainment Weekly (4/9/99, p.77) - "...Whether plowing through tough originals...blowing the rust off oldies by Humble Pie and Free, or stretching Mongo Santamaria's `Afro-Blue' into a jazzily engrossing half hour, the earthy Mule easily leave their more pretentious jam-band brethren in the dust." - Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly (4/9/99, p.77) - "...Whether plowing through tough originals...blowing the rust off oldies by Humble Pie and Free, or stretching Mongo Santamaria's `Afro-Blue' into a jazzily engrossing half hour, the earthy Mule easily leave their more pretentious jam-band brethren in the dust." - Rating: A-

The Allman Brothers Band offshoot Gov't Mule combines the improvisatory aesthetic of jam bands with the heavy-duty blues-rock sensibility of classic power trios like Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody, the band's founders, were both virtuosic musicians, and when drummer Matt Abts joined in, the circle was complete. Woody died in 2000, and rather than replace him, the band recorded two consecutive albums accompanied by a host of famous guest bassists from every conceivable walk of the musical world.

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