Track Listing

1. Fool's Moon
2. Life on the Outside
3. Banks of the Deep End
4. Down and Out in New York City
5. Effigy
6. Maybe I'm a Leo
7. Same Price
8. Soulshine
9. Sco-Mule
10. Worried Down With the Blues
11. Beautifully Broken
12. Tear Me Down
13. Sin's a Good Man's Brother

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93713 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

red hot blues rock
A fitting tribute to their brilliant late bass player Allen Woody, featuring many of his favourite bass players plus a few other special guests.
Jack Bruce, Roger Glover, John Entwistle, Flea to name but a few.
A wonderfull blend of rock, blues with a touch of funk from Bootsy Collins.
In another time Gov't Mule would have been huge,their music is comparable to Cream,Hendrix and Free.
The guests on this album only prove the high regard in which this band are held.
I can't wait for Volume 2 so i can stop playing this one.

A soulful tribute, which fails to live up to the original.
Gov't Mule on it's previous albums managed to create an awesome blend of a traditional sound of a blues & psychedelics inspired 60's power trio with some jazz and the soulful vocals of Warren Haynes. This first album without bass player Allen Woody, for the most part, seems to lack that distinct power; though openings track Fool's Moon, the by Black Crowe Audley Freed co-written and performed Life On The Outside do come close, only the final track Sin's A Good Man's Brother (which does include Allen Woody on bass) captures that old Mule sound. Not that there's anything wrong with this album, on a whole it's just a more laid back and soulful sound than I at least had come to expect from Gov't Mule, more reminiscent of Warren Hayes solo album "Tales Of Ordinary Madness" than of his Mule efforts. Like I said, nothing wrong with this album though, but (and I'm not sure it's available via Amazon) should you be able to get this album in a version that includes the four track bonus disc, you'll see what this album could have been (and why I've only rewarded it four stars)... These four live tracks, two: Blind Man In The Dark & Fallen Down featuring Widespread Panic's Dave Schools on bass and former Allman Brother/ Rolling Stones keyboard player Chuck Leavell, a steaming ZZ Top cover Jesus Just Left Chicago also featuring Chuck Leavell but with Phish' Mike Gordon on bass and a stunning solo acoustic version of Soulshine by Warren Hayes which makes you wonder why they even bothered to rerecord this track at all for this album, we already had a band version on Mules "Live.. With A Little Help From Our Friends" and the Allman Brothers' "Second Set", are but a slight indication of what we can expect live from the 'New School of Gov't Mule' as the band have christened this new live outfit, And I for one hope to hear more of these kinds of tracks as soon as they are done with this two part Allen Woody tribute. One thing's for sure though, if anything this album shows us just how diverse a bass player Woody was.