Dan Alford

With the long winter weekend coming up, it’s time for the fourth installment in the Acoustic Mix series. Past volumes have been among the most popular downloads we’ve had, and this one, like those, represents the very best of what we do around here. It opens with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss doing a nasty version of Black Dog from over the summer, followed by Ryan Adams and the Cardinals with Born into a Light off last fall’s Cardinology.

Next, Warren Haynes and Grace Potter team up with Steve Kimock on steel guitar for a devastating version of Wild Horses, and Dylan covers an old Robert Johnson joint, 32-20 Blues, a regular feature in Warren’s sets for years now. Scaring the Children give a stunning performance on – this one’s worth it for the quality of the recording alone. The guitar and bass create absolutely mesmerizing reverberations through the central jam; it’s long been one of my very favorite recordings. The mix closes with George Harrison playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps all alone (with a couple extra verses thrown in for good measure), and a barn burning acoustic Drowned from Pete Townsend in the mid-90s – unlike anything I’ve heard. This is the best of the best, so as always, enjoy!

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