Southern roots-rock alumni Warren Haynes has revealed a sweepingly majestic version of the Gov’t Mule favourite, ‘Banks Of The Deep End‘. The song is released on Provogue/Artone, and you can listen to it here. The track is taken from his upcoming new live album ‘Dreams & Songs‘, with more information on the release to follow.
It is taken from 2019’s one-of-a-kind concert at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, capturing the thrilling collision between Haynes’ lineup of seasoned rock ‘n’ roll improvisers and the 64-piece Asheville Symphony Orchestra.
The original studio version was released on the 2001 Gov’t Mule album, ‘The Deep End, Volume 1‘ – the first album the band made without bassist Allen Woody, who sadly passed away the year before. The song has gone on to connect with fans of the band worldwide.
Talking about the song, Haynes affirms, “‘Banks Of The Deep End‘ has become a favourite among Mule fans. It’s one of the songs that we probably play more than any other, and although it doesn’t vary as much on a nightly basis as some of the other tunes, it somehow takes on its own personality just based on the song itself, the lyric and the uniqueness of the chord structure and the melody. Playing it with a symphony just emphasises all the dramatic and dynamic changes that the song presents, and it’s wonderful hearing it in that light.”
Warren Haynes has made a career of defying expectations. For more than three decades, this Grammy-winning US bandleader and roots master has outrun genre, classification and comfort zone, journeying between the acclaimed solo work with his own name on the marquee, his storied jam-band Gov’t Mule, and America’s fabled rock ‘n’ roll institutions from the Allman Brothers Band to the Grateful Dead.
‘Banks Of The Deep End’ is just a taster of what is to come, with the concert immortalised on ‘Dreams & Songs‘. More details to follow.
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