Gov't Mule - Wintertime Blues (2000)

DISC 1:
01. Beautiful Life - Edwin McCain
02. Alive - Edwin McCain & Warren Haynes
03. I'll Be - Edwin McCain & Warren Haynes
04. Rastaman Chant - Derek Trucks Band
05. Chicken Strut - Derek Trucks Band
06. 555 Lake - Derek Trucks Band w/ Jimmy Herring
07. Yield Not to Temptation -> Turn On Your Lovelight
 - D.T. Band w/ S.Tedeschi, Col. B.Hampton & J.Herring
08. Ain't That Loving You
 - Derek Trucks Band w/ Larry McCray & Jimmy Herring
09. Don't Change Horses
 - Derek Trucks Band w/ Edwin McCain & Jimmy Herring
10. Just Won't Burn - Derek Trucks Band w/ Susan Tedeschi

DISC 2:
01. Angel From Montgomery - Susan Tedeschi
02. Pretty As you Please - Cry of Love
03. Peace Pipe - Cry of Love
04. Bad Little Doggie - Cry of Love
05. Lay Your Burden Down - Gov't Mule w/ Johnny Neel
06. Fallen Down - Gov't Mule w/ Johnny Neel
07. Devil Likes It Slow - Gov't Mule w/ Johnny Neel & Jimmy Herring
08. Spoonful
 - Gov't Mule w/ Col. Bruce Hampton, Johnny Neel & Mike Barnes
09. When The Blues Come Knockin'
 - Gov't Mule w/ Little Milton & Johnny Neel
10. Merry Christmas Baby
 - Gov't Mule w/ Little Milton, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks & Johnny Neel

This double-CD chronicles the 11th Annual Christmas Jam, a concert benefiting Habitat for Humanity, which was held at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, NC, on December 22, 1999. The benefit was organized by singer/guitarist Warren Haynes, of the Allman Brothers Band and the founder of Gov't Mule, and the list of other performers reflects Haynes' background. The Derek Trucks Band, led by Allman Brothers guitarist Derek Trucks (nephew of Allmans drummer Butch Trucks), anchors the first disc, while Gov't Mule takes up much of the second. The album opens with three songs from Edwin McCain, accompanied on two of them by Haynes. He proves to be an earnest, literate singer/songwriter, and he gives way to the Derek Trucks Band, which takes up the rest of the disc, adding Allmans guitarist Jimmy Herring, Col. Bruce Hampton, Susan Tedeschi, and Larry McCray along the way. As might be expected, the Trucks Band's sound is heavily derived from the Allmans, especially when "Yield Not to Temptation" segues into the old favorite "Turn on Your Lovelight." That means plenty of extended blues-rock guitar solos over a churning rhythm section. When McCain returns to sing on "Don't Change Horses," he even sounds like a growling Gregg Allman. The second disc leads off with Tedeschi, sounding a lot like Bonnie Raitt on the Raitt signature song "Angel From Montgomery," and continues with a reunion of the band Cry of Love, which comes off on its two selections like a resurrection of Free. Gov't Mule then takes over with a set prominently featuring Allmans keyboardist Johnny Neel and including such guests as Little Milton to give a bluesier feel to the concluding material. By the time of the ballad "Fallen Down," even Haynes is sounding like Gregg Allman, and the result is that the concert as a whole might as well be credited to "the Allman Brothers Band: The Next Generation." But with accomplished guitarists like Haynes and Trucks, fans of Southern rock have no reason to complain. ---William Ruhlman, allmusic.com

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