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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Warren, you're on with Quinn and Cantera. Hey, how you.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Doing, Warren Hayes. Welcome to the show. Welcome back to
the show.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Used to be I was so intimidated by Warren, but
then we got to speaking to him here in the
Capitol District and boy, I just love it's just a sweetheart,
a big softy Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Absolutely, how you doing, Warren?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm good, the secret's out.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
You were always so nice and when you come on
the show, we always appreciate the time. And congratulations on
Warren Haynes's million voices whisper. The new album sounds great.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's a different album than we're used to, or different
sound than we're used to from you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
But I read something there for everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Huh yeah, I mean it's very soul music influenced. You know.
Soul music was my first love before I ever discovered
rock and roll music. I grew up listening to Otis
Redding and Sam and Dave and the Four Tops and
the Temptations and trying to sing like all my soul
music heroes. But then a few years later when I
(01:00):
would discover Jimmy Hendrix and Cream and stuff like that,
it made me want to play guitar. So this kind
of revisits those early days and along with my kind
of singer songwriter roots. But yeah, it kind of goes
all over the place. There's something for everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
The song we've been playing this week on the show
is this Life as we Know It? Is that the
one you started with Greg and finished with Derek.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
No. That song is called Real Real Low. Okay. It's
a beautiful song. Greg Almond had started writing it years
ago and never finished it, and I found the lyric
a couple of years back and finished the music to it,
and Derek and I went in the studio and recorded
it and it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
So how does that work? Do you give Greg alm
included credit on the song?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah? Yeah, it's considered a co write. You know. He
wrote a large part of the lyric and I finished
the lyric and wrote the music. But it's one of
many any songs that he and I wrote together, and
I love.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I went to see what you had to say about
the passing of Phil Lesh. You want to explain this
quote from Rolling Stone. It's great Sometimes when a jam
was on the risk of falling apart, or even when
it did fall apart, it was just as fun for him.
Explain that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, Phil was the most open minded musician that I
have ever known or worked with. We started working together
in the late nineties, and his philosophy about music was
that you don't control it, you don't try to perfect it.
You let it be what it is, and you just
(02:40):
kind of ride the wave. And so sometimes we would
get out in these long jams, and you know, occasionally
it's going to turn into a train wreck, and most
of us would be a little frustrated by that, and
I would look over and Phil would have a big
grin on his face. He was just enjoying the journey.
And that's what improvisation is all about. He was experiencing
(03:04):
the epitome of that philosophy, and I learned a lot
from him.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
You ever, loud, like, every jam doesn't end up pulling
itself back. I mean, it goes sideways so much that
it's just how does it end then? If it's going bad?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, you know, in the Armor, brother, there's an in
government mule, and in my band we have ways that
we know if it gets too far out, we can
reel it back in, you know. And sometimes you talk
about those things, and sometimes you don't. But working with
Zoo and working with it did sometimes they would just
let it go and see where it wound up and
(03:39):
not worry about if it was going to get back
or not. And that's a whole other level which I
really love.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I appreciate that explanation.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Thanks Warren Haynes on the phone door talking about the
new solo record and his all star benefit concert at
a Masson Square Garden to aid. Really, I didn't realize
you were from Asheville, North Carolina. This is for aid
and really from the two hurricanes. Of course they came
up recently and just really just destroyed Ashville.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, Ashville is the last place you would ever expect
to be hit by a hurricane like that. It's six
hours from the coast, it's in the mountains. But the
flooding was so bad of biblical proportions, to the extent
that the rivers were twenty one feet above normal and
the entire area is wiped out. They haven't seen flooding
(04:31):
like that since the late seventeen hundreds. The benefit is
also for Florida. When I called the Dave Matthews guys
to see if they were interested in doing a benefit
for the devastation. I realized that a lot of their
crew is from the Sarasota kind of area of Florida,
(04:52):
which got wiped out by back to back hurricanes like
two weeks apart. So the money for this benefit is
mostly going to focus on North Carolina and Florida. And
it's at Madison Square Garden, so we can raise as
much money as possible.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
How does that work?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You just you got Dave Matthew's band, Dave Matthew's phone
number in your phone.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He's hey, Dave, what's up. It's Warren. That is how
that works?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, something like that. You know, we chext back and
forth fairly regularly. That's cool, And you know we've played
together so many times I guess probably thirty years now
at this point. You know, it's hard to believe. I mean,
(05:36):
next year is the thirtieth anniversary of Government Mule, which
is really hard for me to believe. But I've been playing.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You know that's your new bad.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
We were. The radio station was filled with those government
so soul Shine msg dot com to learn more to
make a donation. I know the show is sold out.
Are we going to be able to do you know
if we'll be able to stream it or watch it after?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I think it is streaming and you can should be
able to get that info from sosh on msg dot com.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Because it's an incredible lineups. Warren Haynes, Dave Matthew's Ban,
Nathaniel ray Liff, Maavis Staples, Trey, Joe Russo, Robert Randolph.
That's just some of this lineup. It's an incredible lineup.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, Goose, Derrick Cooks and Susan Tedesky Trombone Shorty. It's
a it's quite quite a wonderful lineup.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And then you, guys, I'll hang out afterwards and write
some amazing music yourself together.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, stay up all night and defire the laws of gravity.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It sounds fun.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Do you still pull all nighters for songwriting? Does that
happen now?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Well, you know, I'm a late person. You know, I
stay up late in general, and I do tend to
do my best songwriting at three or four in the
morning when everybody else is asleep. Uh. Theoretically, I think
that it's easier to right when your brain is really
tired and shuts off a lot of the filters and
(07:05):
you just let the ideas kind of flow and there's
no distractions. But I'm not normally an all night or
person otherwise.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
You know, I saw the documentary it might be on
Prime about the Nashville singer songwriters, and you must know,
it's such a business there. They work like nine to five,
don't they they?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah? They You know, I lived there in the eighties
and so I knew a lot of those folks and
still know a lot of people in that world. They
schedule writing sessions like this, Okay, you and I are
going to write today between ten and one and then
take a lunch break, and then I'm gonna write with
somebody else between two and five. And you know it's
(07:46):
very regimented, which is is great, you know, I mean,
it forces your work ethics.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
But it's not very romantic, right, Yeah, I would agree
with that. Right of the album A millions Whisper is
out and getting great reviews and soul Shine MSG for
more information about the upcoming event.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I was gonna say, what you what are you listening to? New?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But you know, some of these some of these bands
that are on this deal, I imagine are on the list.
Anybody you like that that you want to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You let us know about that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
We don't know, well, you probably know, probably before me.
But the miss show I've seen recently was I saw
Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka together and I thought that
was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
All right, that's a cool stamp of approval of it. Well,
you're always so generous for your time. Congratulations on the
new album. Thanks for all you do and we always
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Warren, thank you, my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Thank you, Warren Hayes. Quarantantra picks one of six
Warren, you're on with Quinn and Cantera. Hey, how you.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Doing, Warren Hayes. Welcome to the show. Welcome back to
the show.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Used to be I was so intimidated by Warren, but
then we got to speaking to him here in the
Capitol District and boy, I just love it's just a sweetheart,
a big softy Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Absolutely, how you doing, Warren?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm good, the secret's out.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
You were always so nice and when you come on
the show, we always appreciate the time. And congratulations on
Warren Haynes's million voices whisper. The new album sounds great.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's a different album than we're used to, or different
sound than we're used to from you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
But I read something there for everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Huh yeah, I mean it's very soul music influenced. You know.
Soul music was my first love before I ever discovered
rock and roll music. I grew up listening to Otis
Redding and Sam and Dave and the Four Tops and
the Temptations and trying to sing like all my soul
music heroes. But then a few years later when I
(01:00):
would discover Jimmy Hendrix and Cream and stuff like that,
it made me want to play guitar. So this kind
of revisits those early days and along with my kind
of singer songwriter roots. But yeah, it kind of goes
all over the place. There's something for everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
The song we've been playing this week on the show
is this Life as we Know It? Is that the
one you started with Greg and finished with Derek.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
No. That song is called Real Real Low. Okay. It's
a beautiful song. Greg Almond had started writing it years
ago and never finished it, and I found the lyric
a couple of years back and finished the music to it,
and Derek and I went in the studio and recorded
it and it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
So how does that work? Do you give Greg alm
included credit on the song?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah? Yeah, it's considered a co write. You know. He
wrote a large part of the lyric and I finished
the lyric and wrote the music. But it's one of
many any songs that he and I wrote together, and
I love.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I went to see what you had to say about
the passing of Phil Lesh. You want to explain this
quote from Rolling Stone. It's great Sometimes when a jam
was on the risk of falling apart, or even when
it did fall apart, it was just as fun for him.
Explain that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, Phil was the most open minded musician that I
have ever known or worked with. We started working together
in the late nineties, and his philosophy about music was
that you don't control it, you don't try to perfect it.
You let it be what it is, and you just
(02:40):
kind of ride the wave. And so sometimes we would
get out in these long jams, and you know, occasionally
it's going to turn into a train wreck, and most
of us would be a little frustrated by that, and
I would look over and Phil would have a big
grin on his face. He was just enjoying the journey.
And that's what improvisation is all about. He was experiencing
(03:04):
the epitome of that philosophy, and I learned a lot
from him.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
You ever, loud, like, every jam doesn't end up pulling
itself back. I mean, it goes sideways so much that
it's just how does it end then? If it's going bad?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, you know, in the Armor, brother, there's an in
government mule, and in my band we have ways that
we know if it gets too far out, we can
reel it back in, you know. And sometimes you talk
about those things, and sometimes you don't. But working with
Zoo and working with it did sometimes they would just
let it go and see where it wound up and
(03:39):
not worry about if it was going to get back
or not. And that's a whole other level which I
really love.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I appreciate that explanation.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Thanks Warren Haynes on the phone door talking about the
new solo record and his all star benefit concert at
a Masson Square Garden to aid. Really, I didn't realize
you were from Asheville, North Carolina. This is for aid
and really from the two hurricanes. Of course they came
up recently and just really just destroyed Ashville.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, Ashville is the last place you would ever expect
to be hit by a hurricane like that. It's six
hours from the coast, it's in the mountains. But the
flooding was so bad of biblical proportions, to the extent
that the rivers were twenty one feet above normal and
the entire area is wiped out. They haven't seen flooding
(04:31):
like that since the late seventeen hundreds. The benefit is
also for Florida. When I called the Dave Matthews guys
to see if they were interested in doing a benefit
for the devastation. I realized that a lot of their
crew is from the Sarasota kind of area of Florida,
(04:52):
which got wiped out by back to back hurricanes like
two weeks apart. So the money for this benefit is
mostly going to focus on North Carolina and Florida. And
it's at Madison Square Garden, so we can raise as
much money as possible.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
How does that work?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You just you got Dave Matthew's band, Dave Matthew's phone
number in your phone.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He's hey, Dave, what's up. It's Warren. That is how
that works?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, something like that. You know, we chext back and
forth fairly regularly. That's cool, And you know we've played
together so many times I guess probably thirty years now
at this point. You know, it's hard to believe. I mean,
(05:36):
next year is the thirtieth anniversary of Government Mule, which
is really hard for me to believe. But I've been playing.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You know that's your new bad.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
We were. The radio station was filled with those government
so soul Shine msg dot com to learn more to
make a donation. I know the show is sold out.
Are we going to be able to do you know
if we'll be able to stream it or watch it after?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I think it is streaming and you can should be
able to get that info from sosh on msg dot com.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Because it's an incredible lineups. Warren Haynes, Dave Matthew's Ban,
Nathaniel ray Liff, Maavis Staples, Trey, Joe Russo, Robert Randolph.
That's just some of this lineup. It's an incredible lineup.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, Goose, Derrick Cooks and Susan Tedesky Trombone Shorty. It's
a it's quite quite a wonderful lineup.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And then you, guys, I'll hang out afterwards and write
some amazing music yourself together.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, stay up all night and defire the laws of gravity.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It sounds fun.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Do you still pull all nighters for songwriting? Does that
happen now?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Well, you know, I'm a late person. You know, I
stay up late in general, and I do tend to
do my best songwriting at three or four in the
morning when everybody else is asleep. Uh. Theoretically, I think
that it's easier to right when your brain is really
tired and shuts off a lot of the filters and
(07:05):
you just let the ideas kind of flow and there's
no distractions. But I'm not normally an all night or
person otherwise.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
You know, I saw the documentary it might be on
Prime about the Nashville singer songwriters, and you must know,
it's such a business there. They work like nine to five,
don't they they?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah? They You know, I lived there in the eighties
and so I knew a lot of those folks and
still know a lot of people in that world. They
schedule writing sessions like this, Okay, you and I are
going to write today between ten and one and then
take a lunch break, and then I'm gonna write with
somebody else between two and five. And you know it's
(07:46):
very regimented, which is is great, you know, I mean,
it forces your work ethics.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
But it's not very romantic, right, Yeah, I would agree
with that. Right of the album A millions Whisper is
out and getting great reviews and soul Shine MSG for
more information about the upcoming event.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I was gonna say, what you what are you listening to? New?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But you know, some of these some of these bands
that are on this deal, I imagine are on the list.
Anybody you like that that you want to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You let us know about that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
We don't know, well, you probably know, probably before me.
But the miss show I've seen recently was I saw
Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka together and I thought that
was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
All right, that's a cool stamp of approval of it. Well,
you're always so generous for your time. Congratulations on the
new album. Thanks for all you do and we always
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Warren, thank you, my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Thank you, Warren Hayes. Quarantantra picks one of six
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