Browsing: Gov’t Mule

Featuring Willie Nelson and family, Sturgill Simpson, The Avett Brothers, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Gov’t Mule, Lucinda Williams, Margo Price, Ida Mae, and More!

“Touch Me” is an intimate piece about the energy that transfers between lovers through the power of touch.

If you’re going to bring your band to Jazz Festival weekend in New Orleans, you better bring your A game. Gov’t Mule brought more than that.

“It’s slightly different. We’re not trying to rip anything off from the past or anything. But we used our influences and this is the consequence.” – Jorgen Carlsson on ‘Pop & Tacos’.

“We thrive on the energy coming from the crowd so the different energy coming from the audience makes us play differently, makes us respond to each other differently…”

Over in the Delta tent, Bobby Rush, the sassiest and downright sexiest 85 year old on the scene, was thrusting his way through a dynamite set.

The Florida Jazz and Blues Jam is an intimate, one-day event. But with six headlining acts, it packs a big punch.

Marcus King joined Mule, and they played an incredible version of the Allman Brothers’ “Whipping Post,” with Haynes and King swapping leads that had the crowd screaming for more.

“Well, blues is pretty much a part of everything that I do. …That music is in my heart, and always will be.”

The Tel-Star Sessions captures the rawness and excitement of the earliest days of Gov’t Mule.