From The Mountain Jam Blog:

The webcast will use 5 HD cameras. The video will be fed into a mobile production studio. The audio mix will come from the festival sound board. Then magically distributed to your computer via the Internet.

And you wonder why I call Gov’t Mule the most fan-friendly band of our time… I know what I’ll be doing this weekend.

This is without question one of my top 10 all-time favorite songs.

Warren Haynes - It Hurts Me Too (Bowery Ballroom, NYC - 6/7/04)
Susan Tedeschi - It Hurts Me Too
Eric Clapton - It Hurts Me Too (live, unknown date)
Tampa Red - It Hurts Me Too
Gov’t Mule - It Hurts Me Too (Santa Barbara Bowl 08/22/99)
Modern Blues Band - It Hurts Me Too

Sometimes I wonder if I should rename this site ‘all-mule-all-the-time’.

One of my die-hard Mule-fan friends (hi Leigh!) had been waiting for ages to hear Gov’t Mule cover “Hallelujah”. She even has a few setlists where it was listed as an encore, but never played. Well, she finally got her wish in Denver @ The Fillmore Auditorium on 4/26/07. For those of you who couldn’t attend and share my jealousy, here it is -

Gov’t Mule - Hallelujah (Warren and Danny only) | source

This is another one of those shows that I can only dream I went to. My younger brother was a Mule fan before I was, and had the brains/luck to attend this one while @ University in Montreal. In Oct of 99 I attended the annual Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, CA - where I got to see Neil Young, Pearl Jam, The Who, Green Day, Lucinda Williams and Brian Wilson - all on the same bill, all acoustic. In retrospect, I’d rather have been at this Mule show. Such is life. Source info here.

Oh and one more almost totally unrelated thing - Mountain Jam has a blog. Since I won’t be attending (unless I win lotto 6/49 in the next few weeks) I’ll be following that blog pretty closely.

Gov’t Mule - Mississippi Queen > Politician jam > Mississippi Queen¹
Gov’t Mule - Superstition²
Gov’t Mule - When The Levee Breaks³

¹ = Gordie Johnson on guitar, vocals for Mississippi Queen reprise
² = Gordie on guitar
³ = Gordie on guitar & vocals

This week I’ve decided to post some ‘older’ Gov’t Mule tracks, from way back in ‘96. The location was the Georgia Theater, in Athens, GA. It’s also worth noting that these were created from a soundboard source, rather than an audience rig (mule tapers rule!). If you like what you hear, I’d strongly suggest grabbing the lossless version on etree while it’s still being seeded.

One last thing - Derek Trucks sits in for Gonna Send You Back To Georgia - and he was only sixteen years old at the time.

Gov’t Mule - St. Stephen Jam
Gov’t Mule - Presence Of The Lord
Gov’t Mule - Goin’ Out West
Gov’t Mule w/ Derek Trucks - Gonna Send You Back To Georgia

Sure I usually just post one song, but what the hell, I had some time to kill. Simple Man was the encore @ the 4/20/07 show in Mobile, AL (source) and Hunger Strike > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hunger Strike is from the 02/09/07 show in Morrison, CO (@Red Rocks, source). I had the great pleasure of attending the @Red Rocks show, and really wish I had attended the Mobile, AL show, but you can’t win them all can you?

Gov’t Mule - Simple Man
Gov’t Mule - Hunger Strike > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hunger Strike

Yeah I know it’s Wednesday. I just don’t care.

This weeks track comes from the recent 4/20 show in Mobile, AL. The setlist was just ridiculous, and the taper (jkbyram) did such a fantastic job that I actually took the time to learn how to combine .wav files so I could present the following songs as one track. Enjoy.

Gov’t Mule - I Think You Know What I Mean > When The Levee Breaks > ITYKWIM

Silly note about video: YouTube allows videos that are 100MB in size, and up to 10:00 minutes in length. After 14 (fourteen!) tries, I managed to capture this video from DVD as a 99.5MB, 9:59 video.

Gov’t Mule performs I Shall Return > Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings @ Stubb’s Barbeque in Austin, TX on 05/08/99

And to take w/ you on your portable music player (borrowed from nugs.net) -

Gov’t Mule - I Shall Return (from 08/22/99)

First up - tomorrow (1/23/07) WNCW is re-broadcasting the Pre-Jam night from the 18th Annual X-Mas Jam.

From WNCW:

Warren Haynes Pre-Jam Re-Broadcast:

Join us as we re-air the Pre-Jam featuring Taj Mahal, Marty Stuart, Gov’t Mule, Branford Marsalis and more….Tuesday night at 9:00 p.m.

Next - I thought I’d post some older Mule this week, and in the spirit of less-talk-more-music, here it is:

Govt Mule
09/10/94
New York, NY
Wetlands

Gov’t Mule - Sin’s A Good Man’s Brother
Gov’t Mule - Politician
Gov’t Mule - Look On Yonder Wall*
Gov’t Mule - Born Under A Bad Sign*

* = with Hook Herrera on harmonica and Larry McCray on guitar

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