MRG Live presents

MRG Live Presents: GOV’T MULE

Event Details

Date

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Time

Doors: 7:00 PM - Show: 8:00 PM

Age Restriction

All Ages

Venue

Vogue Theatre

Address

918 Granville St, Vancouver, BC

Artist

Gov't Mule

About the Event

Doors 7:00 Show 8:00 PM

Patrons requiring accessible seating should purchase the accessible seating marked on the seat map. Please reach out to accessibility@themrggroup.com for any special arrangements needed at the venue or if you require companion seating. 


When Gov’t Mule’s GRAMMY-nominated Heavy Load Blues was released in late 2021, few who heard the album could have sensed that it was merely one part of a two-album project from guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes and his band mates, drummer Matt Abts & keyboardist Danny Louis. While Heavy Load Blues was designed as a live-in-the-studio project exploring the blues idiom, in the midst of that creative rush, Haynes found himself with a bumper crop of new material that ventured outside of the blues genre. The result is Mule’s 12th studio album, the sparkling Peace…Like a River (Fantasy), out now.

Co-produced by Warren Haynes and John Paterno, Peace…Like A River deftly combines structure and spontaneity. Concise songcraft coexists seamlessly with the band’s trademark instrumental journeys, and Haynes’ lyrical themes serves as the glue that fuses the new LP’s extraordinary sonic variety. Ever the consummate collaborators, Peace…Like A River also features crucial contributions from friends of the band, including Billy F. Gibbons, Billy Bob Thornton, Ruthie Foster, Ivan Neville and acclaimed singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Celisse; extraordinary artistic talents who deepen the listening experience even further.

“Most of these songs were written during lockdown,” Haynes says. “But I made a conscious decision: I didn't want to write a bunch of Covid-centric songs.” Rather, Haynes set out to explore the changes that he, and everyone else, was going through. “I wanted to focus on the positive aspects: what we're learning, and especially what we learned to appreciate that we took for granted before.”

“Our mission has always been to try to create music that can stand up next to the amazing artists who influenced us,” Haynes revealed. Few things would make him happier than to know that someone listened to Peace…Like a River and wondered “Am I listening to a record made in the ‘70s? Because I don’t know how I missed it back then!”

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Vogue Theatre

918 Granville St, Vancouver, BC

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Gov't Mule

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Gov't Mule has been synonymous with the jam-band scene since its beginnings in the 1990s. Their sound is a meld of bluesy, hard-rock riffing and songwriting, often virtuosic improvisation, and elevated volume. Originally a power trio comprised of guitarist Warren Haynes, bassist Allen Woody (both formerly of the Allman Brothers Band), and drummer Matt Abts, more than half of their album catalog consists of live recordings. Gov't Mule, or "the Mule" to fans, regularly recruit all-star guests for live performances including Jimmy Herring, Ivan Neville, Fred Wesley, and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. In addition, they have released charting collaborative albums with jazz-funk guitarist John Scofield (Sco-Mule, number two, Jazz Albums) and reggae legend Toots Hibbert (Dub Side of the Mule, number one, Reggae Albums). Five of their own albums have landed inside the upper half of the Top 200, including 2017's Revolution Come... Revolution Go.

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