Warren Haynes

In his expansive career, guitar master and singer Warren Haynes has touched on virtually every genre you can imagine, sometimes even in the course of one song when he’s delivering an epic jam with the Allman Brothers Band, the Dead or his own Gov’t Mule. His latest bluegrass-tinged album, Ashes & Dust, is considerably less loud and more intimate, and its personal nature helps explain why it’s just the third time he’s put out an album in his own name instead of through Gov’t Mule or his Warren Haynes Band. He recruited “newgrass” crew Railroad Earth to help bring it to fruition, and the results on Ashes & Dust are concise performances short on experimental musical explorations, but long on passion and excellent performances.