Sco-Mule | ||||
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Live album by Gov't Mule featuring John Scofield | ||||
Released | January 27, 2015 | |||
Recorded | September 22 and 23, 1999 | |||
Genre | Southern rock, blues rock, jam rock | |||
Label | Evil Teen Records | |||
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John Scofield chronology | ||||
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AllMusic | [1] |
The Guardian | [2] |
Sco-Mule is a live album by the American rock band Gov't Mule, recorded at two 1999 shows in Atlanta, Georgia. It features the band's original members: guitarist Warren Haynes, bass guitarist Allen Woody, and drummer Matt Abts, along with jazz guitarist John Scofield and keyboardist Dan Matrazzo. [3]
These Atlanta performances have been widely traded, discussed and revered by Mule fans for 15 years. [4] Sco-Mule defies both jazz and jam-band genres, "instead, it sits somewhere in-between, with everyone forgetting about artificial delineation." [5]
Recorded at the Georgia Theatre in Athens, Georgia on September 22 and at The Roxy in Atlanta on September 23, 1999. [6]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Hottentot" | John Scofield | 11:07 |
2. | "Tom Thumb" | Wayne Shorter | 11:06 |
3. | "Doing It to Death" | James Brown | 12:08 |
4. | "Birth of the Mule" | Warren Haynes, Allen Woody, Matt Abts | 15:35 |
5. | "Sco-Mule" | Haynes | 9:17 |
6. | "Kind of Bird" | Haynes, Dickey Betts | 18:13 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Pass the Peas" | James Brown, John Starks, Charles Bobbit | 10:21 |
2. | "Devil Likes It Slow" | Haynes | 13:03 |
3. | "Hottentot" (alternate version) | Scofield | 11:40 |
4. | "Kind of Bird" (alternate version) | Haynes, Betts | 18:18 |
5. | "Afro Blue" | Mongo Santamaria | 23:04 |
John Scofield, sometimes referred to as "Sco", is an American jazz-rock guitarist and composer whose music includes bebop, jazz fusion, funk, blues, soul, and rock. He has worked with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey DeFrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Palmieri, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin & Wood, George Duke, Jaco Pastorius, John Mayer, Robert Glasper, and Gov't Mule.
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