Description
Heavy Load Blues gives listeners a deeply creative tour through a load of amazing blues songs, some familiar and some not. Grammy-winning bandleader Warren Haynes is a vocalist, songwriter, guitar legend, and producer for the ages and steers the Mule in the soulful and artistic way he always has, which makes Heavy Load Blues a profound experience from start to finish. It’s a collection of studio tracks that includes originals by Warren Haynes as well as covers of Tom Waits, Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, Junior Wells, Ann Peebles, Bobby “Blue” Bland and the Animals.
This version is the Deluxe Edition which includes eight more songs than the standard. That’s another tradition by Gov’t Mule, never “saving” songs, but doing exactly the opposite, satisfying their fan base with a lot of tracks on each album. Along their almost 30 years on the road, Gov’t Mule remains as a jam-rock band that honours all their influences. But their essence, the rock soul, is always there, either playing reggae or a blues tune.
