Warren Haynes and guests - 'The Benefit Concert - Vol. 4'

In December 2002, guitar great Warren Haynes and his band Gov’t Mule gathered a few friends, including Bob Weir, John Hiatt, Robert Randolph, moe. and Artimus Pyle – to do a concert to benefit Habitat for Humanity in Asheville, N.C.

He’s released four similar CDs from his annual Christmas jams, and this latest also echoes the August release of Gov’t Mule’s live three-disc “Mulennium.”

“Vol. 4” covers some of the same ground. What separates this CD is the slide guitar work that Haynes delivers. The tubes in his amps must have been running extra hot, because his tone here is beyond scorching, particularly on “Shake Your Hips,” with Randolph, and “Memphis in the Meantime,” with Hiatt.

The transition from the hard-driving “Memphis” into a jazzy “Shakedown Street” with Weir shows the versatility that puts Haynes at the highest levels of the guitar world.

– Dan Duke, The Pilot

Download “Memphis in the Meantime,” “Opium”

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