\t\t\t\t\tWarren Haynes Debuts Lyle Lovett\u2019s \u201cPontiac,\u201d Revives Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan Covers in Austin\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Warren Haynes, photo by Dino Perrucci<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Feb. 22, Warren Haynes pulled into Austin, Texas for an engagement at the Paramount Theatre. The celebrated Southern rock singer-songwriter and guitarist\u2019s latest engagement on his Winter of Warren solo outing continued the trend of surprising performances he\u2019s been delivering along his march down from Northern California, featuring a fistful of rarities and a live debut.<\/p>\n
Haynes set off the first of three shows in the Lone Star State with his third all-time treatment of Bob Weir\u2019s Ace classic \u201cCassidy,\u201d delivered in tribute to the late Grateful Dead co-founder. After plowing through uncommon cuts from Gov\u2019t Mule and his solo discography, including \u201cTraveling Tune,\u201d \u201cGlory Road\u201d and \u201cForsaken Savior,\u201d he moved into an unexpected resurrection of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cIt Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry,\u201d which he last covered in January 2019. To cap off the first frame, he plumbed the depths of Gov\u2019t Mule\u2019s catalog with \u201cGone Too Long,\u201d \u201cRaven Black Night\u201d and \u201cSo Weak, So Strong.\u201d<\/p>\n
To commence his second set, Haynes went straight to the heart of the blues tradition with his thoroughly-honed spin on Tampa Red\u2019s standard \u201cIt Hurts Me Too.\u201d The torch-bearing rocker honored his time in the Allman Brothers Band with \u201cOld Before My Time,\u201d then set up another bust-out by playing Ray LaMontagne\u2019s \u201cShelter\u201d for the first time since Aug. 2023. The evening\u2019s biggest surprise came with Haynes\u2019 debut rendition of Lyle Lovett\u2019s chilling 1988 country classic \u201cPontiac,\u201d a track ready-made for his brand of intimate, smoldering Americana. This beating heart of the performance gave the artist momentum to breeze through a last lap of covers like Bill Withers\u2019 \u201cHope She\u2019ll Be Happier\u201d and his original \u201cI\u2019ll Be the One,\u201d dating back to the recently reissued Tales of Ordinary Madness and revived for the first time since March 2023. A rare rendition of the Grateful Dead\u2019s \u201cChina Doll\u201d capped off the performance, four years after its prior staging in March 2022.<\/p>\n
Warren Haynes will return to the stage tonight for a performance at Dallas\u2019 Kessler Theater, then finish off his solo run with dates in Houston, Texas and Pelham, Tenn. Find tickets and details on his full live itinerary at warrenhaynes.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warren Haynes Debuts Lyle Lovett\u2019s \u201cPontiac,\u201d Revives Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan Covers in Austin Warren Haynes, photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-177285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}