Warren Haynes – Ashes and Dust

Warren Haynes speaks into your ear, tiny words that grow as they snake their way through the network of neurons in your head. He aims his guitar and his entourage of folk lower down, cracking through the sternum and into the soft fleshy blood pump. Words and instrument hit their marks at the same time, sending out ripples from twin epicenters like a musical earthquake, that leaves devastation and silence.

His poetry is affecting and its accompanying music is that combination of power and beauty, driving the melody into a story with delicate ups and downs you can’t help but follow.

I am enthralled, as I often am, by the life of the fiddle in the world of this music and wonder how anyone could not be. It’s magic may not be seen by everyone but it is felt by many. (SP)

Star Rating: ***1/2