“A whole generation of bands are standing on the brink of extinction. Look around and see how many have gone”: How Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes became one of American rock’s great unsung heroes

Gov’t Mule posing for a photograph in a bar in 2015.

Warren Haynes and his band Gov’t Mule are one of US rock’s not-so-secret-weapons, appealing to rock fans, blues fans and the jam band fans alike, unafraid to dabble in psychedelia and even reggae. In 2013, Haynes sat down with Classic Rock to look back over a career of a group who have marched entirely to their own beat.

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