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<p>Much like he participated in the evolution of the Allman Brothers Band, Warren Haynes has witnessed the ripening of the Peach Music Festival from the inside.</p><p>The guitarist and songwriter has performed at the annual four-day gathering &#8212; founded by the Allman Brothers Band in 2012 &#8212; as a member of the seminal Southern rock outfit as well as the frontman for Gov&#8217;t Mule, the vehicle for his original music. And he&#8217;ll perform in various capacities this year, as the Peach returns Thursday through Sunday to the Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton and its surrounding grounds.</p><p>Gov&#8217;t Mule will perform the music of Pink Floyd during their &#8220;Dark Side of the Mule&#8221; set on Saturday, and Haynes will play a solo acoustic set titled &#8220;Wake Up with Warren Haynes&#8221; on Sunday morning before Mule headlines the day with a set of their original music.</p><p>&#8220;The Dark Side of the Mule set goes back 10 years,&#8221; Haynes said. &#8220;At one of our Halloween shows, we played a bunch of Pink Floyd songs and filmed and recorded it, never expecting to do it a second time.&#8221;</p><p>After a similar performance five years ago at Mountain Jam in New York, requests flowed in, and Gov&#8217;t Mule will have performed their Pink Floyd set seven times by the end of their current summer tour.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited now that we made that decision,&#8221; Haynes said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll take a lot of material we did 10 years ago and add some to it and hopefully change it night to night. At Peach Fest, it&#8217;ll be interesting to do one night of that. &#8216;Wake Up with Warren&#8217; comes from a whole different well. I don&#8217;t see a reason to repeat any songs over the course of the three sets.&#8221;</p><p>And when Mule takes the stage Sunday night, it&#8217;ll be the band&#8217;s booming blues-rock and soulful Southern rock catalog that greets the Peach audience. Their latest record, 2017&#8217;s &#8220;Revolution Come &#8230; Revolution Go,&#8221; has been celebrated by critics and fans alike.</p><p>&#8220;The new material seemed to connect with the audience even quicker and more deeply than normal,&#8221; Haynes said. &#8220;It&#8217;s fun to see where it goes. The title track, &#8216;Revolution Come &#8230; Revolution Go,&#8217; is fun to play and changes every night. Songs like &#8216;Thorns of Life&#8217; are going in new directions. &#8216;Traveling Tune,&#8217; we&#8217;ve come up with different ways to play it. We open the show with it and close the show with it. &#8230; We can use it in a jam.&#8221;</p><p><strong>The lineup</strong></p><p>Throughout the extended weekend, the Peach Festival will feature more than 50 acts including Phil Lesh &amp; The Terrapin Family Band, The Revivalists, Umphrey&#8217;s McGee, moe., Blackberry Smoke, Michael Franti &amp; Spearhead and Karl Denson&#8217;s Tiny Universe.</p><p>Allman Brothers Band founding member Jai &#8220;Jaimoe&#8221; Johanson will perform Friday with his Jasssz Band, and fellow founder Dickey Betts &#8212; back from retirement &#8212; will take the stage Sunday in a performance that would have been thought unlikely, if not impossible, last year.</p><p>Betts and the band he helped create parted ways in 2000, and in the 17 years that followed, Betts and Gregg Allman neglected to speak to each other until a few week&#8217;s before Allman&#8217;s death last year, a series of conversations in which the pair reportedly reconciled.</p><p>&#8220;The Peach Festival is an Allman Brothers family festival,&#8221; Haynes said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the way it started, and I think the spirit of that is still flowing. I&#8217;m excited to see Dickey perform. He gave me my biggest break of my career. I was in his band before joining the Allman Brothers Band in 1989. I&#8217;ve always appreciated him for that.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really glad Dickey and Gregg were in communication before Gregg passed. I think it&#8217;s something we all wanted to see happen. The Allman Brothers journey has been a long one, but I&#8217;m very thankful to be part of that extended family and be part of it for as long as I was. That music, starting when I was 9 years old, until this very moment, has always remained some of the greatest music I&#8217;ve ever heard.&#8221;</p><p>That catalog will be celebrated at various points throughout the weekend &#8212; including when Allman Brothers Band progeny Devon Allman and Duane Betts collaborate on Saturday &#8212; but the Peach will offer music for all tastes from the New Orleans stylings of Dumpstaphunk to the superlative songwriting of Anders Osborne &amp; Jackie Greene to the soulful rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll of Haley Jane &amp; The Primates.</p><p>Even Northeastern Pennsylvania-forged acts will be represented as JP Biondo and Gatos Blancos are slated for sets on side stages while currently-on-hiatus bluegrass ensemble Cabinet is scheduled to take the main stage in what is billed as its only performance of 2018.</p><p>&#8220;I think one of the coolest things about Peach Fest is that it appeals to a certain type of music fan, the type who takes music very seriously and who looks at music as being a big part of their lives,&#8221; Haynes said. &#8220;They embrace the old music that is in the spirit of the starting point of Peach Fest, but also any new music that&#8217;s created with similar spirit. Music fans like that &#8212; and I consider myself that kind of music fan &#8212; are always looking for something that comes along and shakes things up and doesn&#8217;t adhere to norms, and resembles the music we grew up with and love.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Gov&#8217;t Mule has been a mainstay at the Peach Music Festival, and the accomplished quartet is currently touring on the strength of their latest record, 2017&#8217;s &#8216;Revolution Come &#8230; Revolution Go.&#8217; </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_Gov-27t-Mule_Credit-Jacob-Blickenstaff_2_2MB-2.jpg</photo0><caption0>Gov&#8217;t Mule has been a mainstay at the Peach Music Festival, and the accomplished quartet is currently touring on the strength of their latest record, 2017&#8217;s &#8216;Revolution Come &#8230; Revolution Go.&#8217; </caption0><photoCredit0>Courtesy of Jacob Blickenstaff </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_AP_18126258290389-2.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Guitarist and songwriter Warren Haynes will perform three sets at the Peach Music Festival in Scranton. His band, Gov&#8217;t Mule, will perform one set of Pink Floyd and one set of original music, and he&#8217;ll get things started on Sunday morning with a solo acoustic set titled &#8216;Wake Up with Warren Haynes.&#8217; </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_AP_18126258290389-2.jpg</photo1><caption1>Guitarist and songwriter Warren Haynes will perform three sets at the Peach Music Festival in Scranton. His band, Gov&#8217;t Mule, will perform one set of Pink Floyd and one set of original music, and he&#8217;ll get things started on Sunday morning with a solo acoustic set titled &#8216;Wake Up with Warren Haynes.&#8217; </caption1><photoCredit1>Laura Roberts | Invision/AP </photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Gov&#8217;t Mule to headline multiple nights of annual music festival</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Matt Mattei</p><p>mmattei@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><factboxMeta><p><strong>IF YOU GO</strong></p><p><strong>What: </strong>The Peach Music Festival featuring Gov&#8217;t Mule, Phil Lesh &amp; The Terrapin Family Band, Dickey Betts &amp; His Band, Jaimoe&#8217;s Jasssz Band, Umphrey&#8217;s McGee, Joe Russo&#8217;s Almost Dead, The Revivalists, moe., Michael Franti &amp; Spearhead, Blackberry Smoke, Chris Robinson Brotherhood and more.</p><p><strong>When: </strong>Thursday through Sunday</p><p><strong>Where: </strong>The Pavilion at Montage Mountain and surrounding grounds, 1000 Montage Mountain Road, Scranton</p><p><strong>Additional information:</strong> Four-day passes cost $165 for general admission and $215 with camping. Single day tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday are currently available for $75. Tickets will increase in price as festival nears. Visit thepeachmusicfestival.com for more information and ticket options.</p></factboxMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Matt Mattei at 570-991-6651 or on Twitter @TimesLeaderMatt.</p></shirttailMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><videoMeta><p><table class="mceItemTable" style="border:none;width:98%;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">VideoID:</td><td id="videoid" style="width:50em;font-size:90%;">X0oBuFUzFcg</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">VideoType:</td><td id="videotype" style="font-size:90%;">YOUTUBE</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">URL:</td><td id="url" style="font-size:90%;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0oBuFUzFcg</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Embed String:</td><td id="videoembedstring" style="font-size:90%;">&lt;iframe width=&#8221;560&#8221; height=&#8221;315&#8221; src=&#8221;https://www.youtube.com/embed/X0oBuFUzFcg&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8221; allow=&#8221;autoplay; encrypted-media&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Caption:</td><td id="videocaption" style="font-size:90%;">Gov&#8217;t Mule - Banks of the Deep End</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Credit:</td><td id="videocredit" style="font-size:90%;">Rene Kaufmann</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Position:</td><td id="videoposition" style="font-size:90%;"> </td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="margin-top:10px;font-size:70%;color:#555;">(use the &#8220;for files&#8230;&#8221; link above to associate attached files with this source)</p></videoMeta></div>

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