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Forget Kevin Bacon. Let\u2019s play Six Degrees of Warren Haynes<\/strong><\/u><\/a>. Here\u2019s the r\u00e9sum\u00e9: Twenty-five years with the Allman Brothers Band. Playing with the likes of the Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, and the Dickey Betts Band. Writing a chart-topping hit for Garth Brooks. Not to mention twenty years and ten albums with Gov\u2019t Mule, the blues-rock jam outfit that Haynes cofounded with the late Allman bassist Allen Woody. Oh, and that doesn\u2019t come close to the all-star firepower he recruits to his native Asheville, North Carolina, for his annual charity event, Christmas Jam, which will celebrate its twenty-seventh year in December. So whom hasn\u2019t he worked with? \u201cNeil Young, Tom Waits, and Jimmy Page,\u201d he says. \u201cAfter them, there\u2019s not much of a list.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those legends might have to leave a message for now, because for only the third time in his storied career, Haynes is releasing a solo album. Ashes and Dust<\/em><\/strong> is a mostly acoustic offering, recorded with members of Railroad Earth, a highly respected roots rock\/newgrass group from Stillwater, New Jersey. During the recording process, Haynes would bring in different songs, each one that the Railroad Earth guys had never heard before. For some artists, that would be an ill-advised gamble, but it works seamlessly in Haynes\u2019s world, given his prowess at \u00a0improvisation and squeezing the best out of fellow players. \u201cThe marriage was unpredictable, I think,\u201d he says. \u201cBut there\u2019s a cool, natural chemistry they brought to the table. They all play a lot of different instruments, so it let everyone stretch a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though he knew exactly what he was looking for in the songs,\u201d says Tim Carbone, Railroad Earth\u2019s violinist and vocalist, \u201cwe all had a chance to put our own stamp on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ashes and Dust<\/em> is Haynes\u2019s most personal work, a blizzard of emotion that surrounds his lyrical snapshots of growing up in North Carolina, sneaking into folk clubs at fourteen, and losing two childhood friends. The stirring \u201cCompany Man,\u201d an ode to his father, would bring a tear to any son with half a soul. His dad worked for a grocery store for more than twenty years before it moved operations out of North Carolina. \u201cMy dad had a beautiful singing voice and still does, but he never pursued it because he was busy working and raising kids,\u201d says Haynes, who has two brothers still in Asheville. \u201cAll his roots and family were in North Carolina. So when the store closed down, he started over, got a job in a factory, and faced the fact that he was starting over when young kids had seniority over him. It was hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

G&G <\/em>EXCLUSIVE: WATCH HAYNES PERFORM SONGS FROM HIS NEW ALBUM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Ashes<\/em> also features the singer Grace Potter, who lends some vocal chops to a cover of the Fleetwood Mac classic \u201cGold Dust Woman,\u201d in which Haynes transforms the music from the original sleepy Laurel Canyon vibe to a ghostly, Celtic-tinged lament that seems destined for a Game of Thrones<\/em> placement. Another highlight is \u201cSpots of Time,\u201d a song that Grateful Dead\u2019s bassist, Phil Lesh, gave to Haynes with the music written but no lyrics other than the title, which Lesh took from the English poet William Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cThe Prelude.\u201d Haynes took on the challenge and nailed it. \u201cIt kind of sums up what this record is about,\u201d he says. \u201cThe most personal memories and important things in your life stick out like they\u2019re frozen in time.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year marks the first in decades without an Allman Brothers Band tour, with Haynes and guitarist Derek Trucks having left the band at the end of last year. \u201cIt\u2019s emotional for all of us, but we had been talking about it for four years, making the forty-fifth anniversary the final tour,\u201d Haynes says. \u201cI miss it. The Allman Brothers performs in a way no other band can. But I respect the legacy enough to know when to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

But really, ending at forty-five? Why not go for fifty? \u201cThere\u2019s no talk,\u201d Haynes says with a laugh. \u201cBut anything is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Matt Hendrickson<\/strong><\/a> has been a contributing editor for Garden & Gun<\/i> since 2008. A former staff writer at Rolling Stone<\/i>, he\u2019s also written for Fast Company <\/i>and the New York Times<\/i> and currently moonlights as a content producer for Ohio University\u2019s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service in Athens, Ohio.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

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Forget Kevin Bacon. Let\u2019s play Six Degrees of Warren Haynes. Here\u2019s the r\u00e9sum\u00e9: Twenty-five years with the Allman Brothers Band. Playing with the likes of the Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, and the Dickey Betts Band. Writing a chart-topping hit for Garth Brooks. Not to mention twenty years and ten albums with Gov\u2019t Mule, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2392131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21800,466696,367113],"class_list":["post-2392130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-music","tag-relink","tag-warren-haynes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/New-Music-From-Warren-Haynes-\u2013-Garden-Gun.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392132,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392130\/revisions\/2392132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}