The Whisper Sessions Warren Haynes

• 1 Back Where I Started (Whisper Sessions) 04:22
• 2 Till The Sun Comes Shining Through (Whisper Sessions) 05:08
• 3 From Here On Out (Whisper Sessions) 04:26
• 4 ‘Til I Can Make It On My Own (Whisper Sessions) 03:28
• 5 You Ain’t Above Me (Whisper Sessions) 03:38
• 6 This Life As We Know It (Whisper Sessions) 04:04
• 7 Real, Real Love (Whisper Sessions) 05:32
• 8 These Changes (Whisper Sessions) 06:29
• 9 Melissa (Whisper Sessions) 05:36
• Total Runtime 42:43

Info zu The Whisper Sessions

Grammy-Preisträger Warren Haynes hat „The Whisper Sessions“ veröffentlicht, ein reduziertes digitales Album, das Songs seines gefeierten Soloalbums „Million Voices Whisper“ aus dem Jahr 2024 in neuer Interpretation präsentiert. Die 9-Track-Sammlung erscheint am Freitag, den 12. September, über Fantasy Records und legt die Produktionsebenen frei, um die pure Emotion und musikalische Tiefe jedes einzelnen Tracks freizulegen.

Die Sessions umfassen sieben herausragende Songs von „Million Voices Whisper“ sowie zwei neu interpretierte Coverversionen. Derek Trucks, langjähriger Kollaborateur der Allman Brothers Band, ist auf drei Tracks zu hören, darunter eine bewegende Interpretation von „Melissa“ und das neu veröffentlichte „These Changes“, das er gemeinsam mit Haynes geschrieben hat. Letzteres, das ab sofort zum Streamen verfügbar ist, zeigt die mühelose Chemie zwischen den beiden Gitarristen, insbesondere während der spontanen instrumentalen Wechselwirkungen, die sich während der Studioaufnahmen ganz natürlich ergaben.

„‚These Changes‘ handelt davon, gleichzeitig zurückzublicken und nach vorne zu schauen“, sagt Haynes. „Der Instrumentalteil am Ende ergab sich einfach – er war nicht im Originalarrangement enthalten, fühlte sich aber richtig an. Es war eine großartige Gelegenheit, die musikalische Verbindung zwischen Derek und mir wieder aufleben zu lassen, die wir schon immer hatten.“

Die Idee zu The Whisper Sessions war ursprünglich nicht geplant. Sie entstand ganz natürlich beim Wiederhören akustischer Darbietungen der „Million Voices Whisper“-Tracks. Haynes erklärt: „Uns wurde klar, dass sie eine einzigartige Perspektive auf die Songs selbst boten, und wir dachten, es wäre cool, sie verfügbar zu machen.“

„Million Voices Whisper“ erschien im November 2024, stieg auf Platz 1 der Billboard Blues Album Charts ein und war Haynes’ erstes Soloalbum seit fast einem Jahrzehnt. Mit Gastauftritten wie Lukas Nelson, Jamey Johnson und mehreren Auftritten von Derek Trucks wurde es als eines seiner besten Werke bis heute gefeiert.

Vor der Veröffentlichung von „The Whisper Sessions“ geht Haynes mit seiner Soloband auf Europatournee, bevor er für die neu angekündigte „Back In The Saddle Tour“ von Gov’t Mule in die USA zurückkehrt, um das 30-jährige Jubiläum ihres Debütalbums zu feiern. Außerdem stehen mehrere Co-Headliner-Termine mit der Tedeschi Trucks Band auf dem Programm.

Warren Haynes

Warren Haynes
You wouldn't know it from listening to Warren Haynes' work with Gov't Mule or the Allman Brothers Band, but there was a time when he didn't play guitar. He says, "I didn't get my first guitar until I was 12. My oldest brother had an acoustic guitar and I would bang around on it and try to play." But guitar wasn't even his first love -- it was singing. Around the time he was eight or nine, Haynes' two older brothers began turning him on to soul music. He would sit in his room, singing Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett. He became fascinated with sounds of Motown and Memphis. "All I cared about was the singer. The really strong singers really knocked me out. Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops still is one of my favorite voices of all time. And I always liked B.B. King even before I liked the blues. His voice was the main thing."

Guitar didn't escape Haynes' attention for long, however: he would soon turn on to rock and roll. "I really liked Eric Clapton. He was the first guitar hero I had. I liked really heavy Cream stuff. I liked all the Derek And The Dominoes stuff." Haynes' brothers used his admiration of Clapton to expand his musical horizons to take in the blues masters. They would tell him to check out Howlin' Wolf because Clapton played on it. Interviews with Haynes' favorite guitarists led him to other blues players, and the scope of his guitar playing grew accordingly.

Soon Haynes found himself performing at private gigs and pool parties. When he was about 14, he started hanging around a local pizza parlor that had been converted into a nightclub. About six months later, word got out that Haynes played guitar. The regulars wondered what this kid could do, so they offered to let him on stage.

It wasn't long before Haynes was playing in a band called Ricochet that developed a good regional following. One day, Haynes got a call from David Allan Coe, and it was a major break for the 20-year-old Haynes. He played with Coe from 1980 to 1984 (traveling all over the States and Europe) and played on nine of Coe's albums. Haynes also met Dickey Betts and Gregg Allman through Coe, and when Coe's band opened for The Allman Brothers at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Betts sat in. Four years later, Haynes moved to Nashville to do session work, but the Allman connection was still there. Betts was doing some demos in Nashville and called someone to put together a group of background singers. As fate would have it, Haynes was one of them. Later, he called Haynes and invited him down to work on some songs. Those songs turned into Betts' solo album, Pattern Disruptive.

At the same time, Allman decided to record "Just Before the Bullets Fly," which Haynes co-wrote, as the title track to his 1988 album. It's no wonder that when The Allman Brothers reformed for their Reunion Tour in 1989, Haynes got a call to join. That tour turned into two studio albums and two Grammy nominations for Best Instrumental Rock Performance (in 1990 for "True Gravity" and 1991 for "Kind of Bird," both of which were co-written by Haynes and Betts) and then a live album in 1992 An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band. Haynes' songwriting, singing and playing helped make Seven Turns, Shades of Two Worlds and An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band, the Brothers' most critically acclaimed albums in years. Many critics give Haynes credit for putting the fire back in The Allman Brothers Band.

Haynes also took time out to release his first solo album, Tales of Ordinary Madness. The album featured the piano work of Chuck Leavell. Leavell also played on the album, joining another former Allman Brother, Johnny Neel, and Funkadelic's Bernie Worrell on keyboards. Marc Quinones, percussionist in the current Brothers lineup, also helped out.

After dropping out of The Allman Brothers Band in 1997 to pursue his side project (Gov't Mule) on a full-time basis, Haynes, along with bassist Allen Woody and drummer Matt Abts, released their third album in 1998, Dose, as a follow-up to their highly successful 1996 debut album and the 1996 recording Live at Roseland Ballroom. (Michael B. Smith, AMG)

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