For all the deserved acclaim Warren Haynes gets as a guitarist, he’s just a criminally underrated vocalist. His interpretation is just a thing of beauty.
WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
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Gerard Van der Leun
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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No Duane Allman. No Dickey Betts. No Allman Brothers.
If you want to hear the best vocalist that is little known in America, Floor Jansen in Nightwish is your girl. Try “Ghost Love Score”from the 2013 Wacken Concert. Best live band on the planet.
Sorry. I still prefer Van Morrison
My wife and I were on vacation in the Utrecht (Netherlands) in 2019 and I heard Blackberry Smoke was playing at a Ribs and Blues festival about an hour away. My wife didn’t want to go, so I went with a bus load of locals. Time of my life and to top it off, Warren Haynes was playing with them. I’ve been to plenty of concerts but this one was in the Top 3. He is a National Treasure and I don’t use that term lightly.