Gov't Mule - Life Before Insanity (2000)

Tracklist:
01. Wandering Child (6:06)
02. Life Before Insanity (6:13)
03. Bad Little Doggie (3:48)
04. Lay Your Burden Down (5:27)
05. Fallen Down (6:58)
06. World Gone Wild (6:17)
07. Tastes Like Wine (6:59)
08. I Think You Know What I Mean (4:57)
09. Fra Away (5:55)
10. No Nead To Suffer (8:22)
11. In My Life (12:47)

Warren Haynes - vocals, guitar, slide guitar
Allen Woody - rhythm guitar, mandolin, dulcitar, bass, electric upright bass, fretless bass
Matt Abst - drums, djembe

Additional personnel:
Hook Herrera - harmonica
Michael Barbiero - glockenspiel
Johnny Neel - organ

Recorded at Muscle Shoals Studios, Sheffield, Alabama; Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey;
Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, New York.
Released 2/15/2000

In 1997, following a short period of splitting time between the Allman Brothers Band and Gov't
Mule, Warren Haynes left the former to concentrate full-time on the latter. With Haynes'
rededication to the band, Mule went on to resurrect and expand upon the power-trio concept
first pioneered by Cream and Mountain. Much like its predecessors, the Mule's fifth album,
LIFE BEFORE INSANITY, continues to be yoked to leader Haynes' gruff vocals and formidable
guitar playing.

This time around, the Mule wanders away from its blues-rock roots, embracing a creative
expansion marked by odd time signatures and more of a low-key delivery. Haynes' soulful vocals
are an especially appropriate match for the haunting "Tastes Like Wine" and the goosebump-
inducing title track. Elsewhere, the Mule welcomes such guests as Ben Harper on the meandering
"Lay Your Burden Down" and harmonica player Hook Herrera on the gnarly "I Think You Know What
I Mean." Although most of LIFE is low-key, Haynes gets to flash his chops on a slide-drenched,
rip-roaring cover of Robert Johnson's "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day," a hidden
track.

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