Dickey Betts & Warren Haynes

[GnLguy]

Sunjamr Steve recently posted a great tune by Warren Haynes & Gov’t Mule, it seems from the responses that many of us love Warren Haynes as a player, musician, songwriter singer and everything else that he is.

I mentioned that I’d first heard Warren when he joined the Dickey Betts Band on Dickey’s album Pattern Disruptive released in 1989. Dickey had met Warren when he was playing in a nightclub in Asheville NC and as they say, the rest is history
The song below is one of Dickey’s amazing instrumentals and the collaboration between Dickey & Warren was very special much like he had with Duane Allman. Shortly after the release of this album, Dickey & Gregg decided to get the Allman Brothers back together for a 20 Year Reunion and Warren fit into the ABB very well, bringing the best slide playing to the band since Duane died in 1971.
The title is Duane’s Tune – don’t know if it was for Duane Allman or Dickey’s son Duane Betts, considering that his instrumental Jessica was for this daughter Jessica Betts

Enjoy

[Don D.]

“Duane’s Tune” has too much going on for me, but I saw this one for the first time while I was listening to it; this is deep music. This is the kind of Dickey Betts music that moves me, it’s the last song on his first solo album.

Don D.

[GnLguy]

Yeah, I know what you mean about that song having a lot in it. If you listen to any of Dickey’s instrumentals, they are all like that.
I read an interview with Warren just after the time that he had worked with Dickey on the solo album Pattern Disruptive and Seven Turns with the Allman Brothers. He questioned Dickey about to come up with the harmony in what they were playing – Dickey & Warren were playing different harmonies behind Gregg’s organ solos and behind the vocals.

On the ABB’s final album, Hittin’ The Note, there is an instrumental with Warren & Derek Truck; it was the only album recorded by the Brothers after they ousted Dickey. It’s a good song and Warren & Derek playing was brilliant but if you are familiar with Dickey’s playing, it’s so obvious that Dickey had no input on that song. It was painfully obvious that the beautiful harmony that is in all of their instrumentals wasn’t there.

The ABB was on The Tonight Show during the Jay Leno years and they played a shortened version of one of their instrumentals. One of the show’s band members commented how their music was “coming at them from every direction” in reference to all of the harmony in the music. He went on to say that a band that was on the prior week was so shallow in comparison.

The ABB would not have been all that good after Duane’s death if any other guitarist had been with them; I don’t know that they would have survived had it been anyone else than Dickey

Or, so say’s a Dickey Betts fanatic….LOL

[GnLguy]

Here’s another great one with Warren in the ABB

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