Gov't Mule

Those who play in bands know how incredibly difficult it is to get a good live recording. Gov't Mule not only made an epic live album 20 songs long, but they mix a solid amount of originals with covers while injecting myriad guest players. Recorded at New Orleans's 2003 Jazz Fest, this gem recalls the Allman's heyday.

The economic law of diminishing returns delicately says that at certain times the more of
something you have the less return you will receive. Bands the world over have tossed that
handy maxim aside for aimless twenty-minute guitar and drum solos. A quick glance over
the twenty-song, two-hour-and-thirty-four-minute double disc live offering from Gov't
Mule, The Deepest End, would seem the definition of diminishing returns. (And t... More >