{"id":806223,"date":"2020-04-09T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=980587"},"modified":"2020-04-09T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:50:31","slug":"social-distancing-with-warren-haynes-canceled-shows-new-songs-and-bill-withers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/social-distancing-with-warren-haynes-canceled-shows-new-songs-and-bill-withers\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing With Warren Haynes: Canceled Shows, New Songs, and Bill Withers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions<\/a> about these unprecedented times. Warren Haynes<\/a> played at one of the last major arena shows before the lockdown \u2013 the \u201cBrothers\u201d tribute to the Allman Brothers Band on March 10 \u2013 and also participated in the Love Rocks benefit at New York\u2019s Beacon Theatre two nights later. (Four participants in that show, including Jackson Browne and guitarist Larry Campbell, tested positive for the coronavirus<\/a>, but Haynes appears to have emerged untouched. \u201cI seem to be okay,\u201d he says. \u201cI remember Jackson and I approaching each other and giving each other the elbow bump and smiling, like, \u2018This is the way it\u2019s gotta be now.\u2019 It was the beginning of a new mindset.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Haynes, who turned 60 this week, was scheduled to play shows with Phil Lesh and Friends and also to tour Europe with his own band, Gov\u2019t Mule. All those concerts have been postponed. Here\u2019s what he had to say about his time off.<\/p>\n

What are you doing with your unexpected time at home?
<\/strong>I\u2019m luckily out in the country [Westchester County, New York] where we have a few acres of land. We walk around and go out on our Kawasaki Mule. I\u2019ve been doing a lot of writing, which started several months ago but has carried over obviously due to having a lot of unexpected time at home. I do most of my writing when I\u2019m home anyway, so I intend to take full advantage of the situation. In an odd way it feels good to be forced to slow down a bit.<\/p>\n

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What music do you turn to in times of crisis for solace and comfort, and why?
<\/strong>When I need music to lift me out of a funk I always seem to gravitate towards timeless stuff \u2013 the stuff that I consider top-shelf. Before Bill Withers died, I would have included his Live at Carnegie Hall<\/em> as one of those go-to records, but since then even more. Van Morrison\u2019s Astral Weeks<\/em> is one I turn to for a soul cleansing along with Ray Charles\u2019 True to Life<\/em>. I could give you 20 more: anything by Otis Redding, the first John Prine record, any of a dozen Bob Dylan albums, mostly old but including Oh Mercy<\/em>. The only \u201cnewer\u201d artists I would tend to include in that company would be Chris Whitley, Jeff Buckley, and Ray LaMontagne.<\/p>\n

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It seems like we\u2019re headed back to the Sixties, in the way that it\u2019s up to us \u2013 we\u2019re all in this together. Post-conflict, post-crisis situations tend to inspire a lot of positive change on the other side and that, historically, translates to music as well. I\u2019m hoping we will be better on the other end \u2013 as people, as a country, as a world.<\/p>\n

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As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions about these unprecedented times. Warren Haynes played at one of the last major arena shows before the lockdown \u2013 the \u201cBrothers\u201d tribute to the Allman Brothers Band on March 10 \u2013 and also participated in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 18:12:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}