With touring life returning to normal, Gov’t Mule has a summer’s worth of tour dates booked and will be focusing on the final run of Dark Side of the Mule dates (July 22 – August 20) before getting back to regular sets. While Heavy Load Blues sounds like it’s title, Peace … Live a River finds the band performing their familiar classic rock-meets-jam band blues-influenced numbers, as much Deep Purple as Allman Brothers in the dozen tracks that make up the record.
Unable to tour, Warren Haynes and the band began writing music for what was intended to be Mule’s 12th studio album and not only did they finish that album (2021’s Heavy Load Blues) but they concurrently wrote and recorded Peace … Like a River which was released earlier this summer. For a band that burns many road miles, Gov’t Mule found itself in an unusual position during the Covid lockdown that started in 2020.
