Track Listing

1. Grinnin' In Your Face
2. Mother Earth
3. Roching Horse
4. Monkey Hill
5. Temporary Saint
6. Trane
7. Mule
8. Dolphineus
9. Painted Silver Light
10. Mr. Big
11. Left Coast Groovies
12. World Of Difference

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28177 in Music
• Released on: 1995-06-27
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
While Gov't Mule is spearheaded by ex-Allman Brothers Warren Haynes and Allen Woody, this isn't so much a "jam band" as a power trio. Cream, Mountain, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience provide more accurate points of reference than the Grateful Dead. Not that Gov't Mule isn't interested in improvisational probing. For example, "Trane" explores John Coltrane by way of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. This debut displays a high level of communication, cohesion, and musicianship, indicating this Mule can handle a considerable workload. --Richard Gowen

Customer Reviews

First Mule release and it is excellent!
Recording quality may not be as good as later releases such as Deja Voodoo but this disc is raw and rocks hard. It may be my favorite. Get it without question.

yeahh...demoledor!!!!!!!! (si..es castellano..te molesta??)
rugiente, devastador ..como un volcan en erupcion!!! como los allman en lava....granitica edicion de blues rock..jazz...polenta sin control, tren descarrilado que pasa por tus oidos llevandose todo puesto....escuchalo, please!!!!!!!!

Incredible Debut!
On this, their self-titled debut, Gov't Mule prove without a doubt that they're far from a simple "side-project." With more emotion, more blues, and more soul in one guitar lick or one vocal line than the sum of most popular music from the last ten years, Gov't Mule demands to be heard by anyone and everyone who demands more from music and musicians. Cheap, ripped off and repeating riffs don't exist here. Snotty, "I'm too cool to care" vocals cannot be found. What can be found, however, is a band that simply sweats and bleeds emotion into its music.

From the first soulful moments of the a capella "Grinnin' in Your Face," which bleeds right into the gut-wrenching guitar playing of Warren Haynes on "Mother Earth," it's very evident that this is not the same old thing. This album (and all of Mule's work, really) is filled to the brim with great instrumental work, amazingly soulful and powerful vocals, and incredibly potent songwriting. I simply cannot say anything bad about this album.