dose

Gov't Mule kicked out the jams for the dark and heavy soulful experiments of their sophomore studio sampler. 'Dose' was the first record the band recorded after Haynes and Woody decided to leave the Allman Brothers Band and pursue Gov't Mule full time. The sessions featured Warren Haynes on vocals, guitar, and percussion; Allen Woody on bass and mandolin; and Matt Abts on drums and percussion; with producer Michael Barbiero helping out on tambourine.
Haynes describes the Mule's sound and philosophy:    "I think most people these days are pretty aware of the sound that we have and which directions we are exploring. Our audience, you know, doesn't really look at it as a southern rock thing. It depends, a lot of people don't get any negative connotations from the term southern rock but some people do. So I just don't like to be pigeon holed that just because we were in the Allman Brothers makes us a southern rock band, I don't believe that. At the same time people also refer to the Black Crowes as a southern rock band and I don't think it applies to them either. Maybe the fact that we're from the south, you know, but I don't think it sounds like the images you conjure up in your head when you think southern rock. A lot of those bands were bands that we like and enjoyed but the kind of music that we listen to runs the whole gamete. Traditional jazz, traditional blues, rock music, folk music, psychedelic music, its all over the place. Were as much influenced by Jimi Hendrix as we are by Miles Davis and John Coltrane or by Howling Wolf, Elmore James and Muddy Waters. And then there's the whole folk side, and you know I think it's American music...I think the type of music we play and the type of people we are and the type of people we attract. All those things are inter-related. And it's not pretentious music. It's very organic music and the people that come to our shows have that organic quality in common with the band. You know we're...we're just all about hanging out and having a good time and playing music and listening to music and into being a good vibe, you know....It's hard, the larger scale you do that on, the harder it becomes, but it's really important to us that..... that we maintain that kind of vibe cause of all the experiences we've had through the years. It's really weird when the band is entirely severed from the crowd....and its a hard thing to....to gauge how much energy is coming from the crowd. The crowd is responsible for a large part of the energy on stage. You know we play entirely differently in front of an audience that we would play if we were just in an empty room...we're definitely more at home on a live stage, but we try to make the studio environment as much like the live environment as possible....in the way that we set up like we're doing a performance. The new record we did with no headphones, all of us set up in a room, playing together in close proximity, just as it we were doing a show. And that kind of setup doesn't allow for some of the conveniences of modern recording, punching in and out and replacing mistakes...whoever used the word perfection in the same sentence as music wrong head space, you know.....music has never been to be about perfection, it's about emotion, and there's nothing perfect about emotion. Really, all three of us agree that the best the music can be...is very emotional and as little.....cerebral analysis as possible. You can go nit pick all this stuff and go 'Well, I didn't really play this part the way I wanted to...and this notes a little flat and....' but none of that stuff really matters in the long run if you got a magic performance. There's never gonna be a completely perfect take of anything and you just have to accept that and go with the overall vibe. So for us our way of doing that is just like jumping in with both feet and saying "OK...here it is, it's completely live, mistakes and all and yeah, we could have fixed it but it would have been for the worse I think...the whole Miles Davis philosophy....make that mistake three times in a row and it's part of the song."









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"Thorazine Shuffle" 






"Game Face" 



"Towering Fool"




"John the Revelator" 






"Larger Than Life"






"I Shall Return"

 'Dose' 
full album:




All songs by Warren Haynes unless otherwise noted.


1. "Blind Man in the Dark" 6:47
2. "Thorazine Shuffle" (Haynes/Abts) 6:46
3. "Thelonius Beck" 3:33
4. "Game Face" 7:55
5. "Towering Fool" (Haynes/Abts) 6:22
6. "Birth of the Mule" (Haynes/Woody/Abts) 6:41
7. "John the Revelator" 3:49
8. "She Said, She Said" (Lennon–McCartney) 6:57
9. "Larger Than Life" 5:13
10. "Raven Black Night" 5:29
11. "I Shall Return" 5:40