Jazz Articles about Gov't Mule

Gov't Mule Marches On: Live in Hampton Beach, NH

by Doug Collette
November 21, 2009

Gov't Mule Casino Ballroom Hampton Beach, New Hampshire October 30th, 2009

Gov't Mule have long been savvy enough to invite like-minded artists on tour with them, ranging from Xavier Rudd to Back Door Slam to Robert Randolph. Few co-bills, however, have been so potent on paper as this 2009 fall jaunt with Jackie Greene. In Hampton Beach, the individual attractions were more successful collaboratively than playing on their own.

Jackie Greene ...

Gov't Mule: Gov't Mule: Holy Haunted House

by Doug Collette
July 29, 2008

It's hardly a surprise that Gov't Mule performed Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy (Atlantic, 1973) in its entirety in sequence on Halloween, 2007. The legendary British band is one of the most profound influences on The Mule, in both their original compositions--"Streamlined Woman" and others on High & Mighty (ATO, 2006)--and covers--"When the Levee Breaks" and “Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)," as well as “No Quarter" from Houses.

A tribute to Gov't Mule's ...

Gov't Mule and Powder in Vail, Colorado

by Geoff Anderson
April 26, 2008

Gov't Mule Dobson Arena Vail, Colorado April 10, 2008

Not many rock bands sing about antipsychotic drugs, but Gov't Mule closed their show Thursday night with the Thorazine Shuffle. It seemed appropriate, too, because it had been snowing most of the day in Vail, had continued snowing through the evening and was expected to snow all night which was leading the skiers in the crowd (since it was Vail, there might have been ...

Gov't Mule: Gov't Mule: Mighty High

by Doug Collette
December 12, 2007

Hearing a Gov't Mule reggae album is no big surprise if you've seen the band with any regularity over the years. Interpretations and teases of Bob Marley songs sprinkle their set lists; nouveau reggae icons Spearhead with Michael Franti have been co-billed with the group frequently; and Warren Haynes' signature song, “Soulshine, has been arranged for reggae in the last year.

Germinating, no doubt, from a confluence of those circumstances, 2006's New York New Year's run, which included one night ...

Mule on the Water: Warren Haynes & Co. in Boston

by Doug Collette
September 29, 2007

Gov't Mule Bank of America Pavilion Boston, Massachusetts September 7, 2007

The element of surprise is crucial in gauging reaction to a Gov't Mule performance. On occasion, as with the quartet's most recent appearance in Boston, the cumulative impact of the concert can sneak up from behind...

Warren Haynes could hardly have been chipper than he acted on the waterfront on 9/7/07. The customarily taciturn frontman was effusive in his repeated thanks to ...

Gov't Mule: Live At Roseland Ballroom

by Doug Collette
May 17, 2007

The previously long out-of-print Live at Roseland Ballroom stands as a template for Gov't' Mule past and present and for the foreseeable future. Most of the material included on this welcome reissue was a means to the end of lengthy improvisations, but also remains an integral part of the group's repertoire even today, with the group reconfigured as a quartet.

Present-day Mule rediscovers tunes such as “Temporary Saint, but it's not the same sensation as that of the original trio--guitarist ...

Gov't Mule: High and Mighty

by Doug Collette
August 23, 2006

With their new album High & Mighty, Gov't Mule has once again given the lie to the myth that a hard-rockin' band can't possess a finely tuned intellect. Or that a musical group with real strength is too muscle-bound to display sufficient finesse to improvise with urgency and purpose.

The sound of High & Mighty hits home first. Working with producer Gordie Johnson of the Canadian band Big Sugar, Gov't Mule issues forth a massive sound here that reverberates even ...