Gov’t Mule has finished recording its seventh studio album at Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Studio near Austin, Texas. According to frontman Warren Haynes, the set is tentatively titled “High and Mighty” and slated for an Aug. 22 release on ATO Records.
It’s shaping up to be, I think, the best thing we’ve ever done,” says Haynes, who co-founded the group in 1994 with the late bassist Allen Woody as a side project to their regular gig with the Allman Brothers Band. “We’ve recorded 18 songs. We’re gonna have to narrow it down to 11 or something. There’s just a lot of diversity. It covers a lot of ground, a lot of our influences. We’re going in some new directions, but it still sounds like Mule.”
Haynes says fans will hear reggae overtones in some of the new songs, along with “a little more alt.country” and “a lot of just real groove-oriented stuff, a lot of rockers.” Produced by Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar, it’s Gov’t Mule’s first studio release since 2005’s “Deja Voodoo” and the second to feature the current lineup of Haynes, founding drummer Matt Abts, bassist Andy Hess and keyboardist Danny Louis.
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