Photo Credit: Dino Perrucci

On Friday, Oct. 11, Warren Haynes touched down in Port Chester, N.Y. for a performance at the historic Capitol Theatre. In the penultimate staging of his Million Voices Whisper Fall Tour, celebrating the Gov’t Mule frontman’s first solo album in over a decade, Haynes appeared alongside a quartet of Gov’t Mule bassist Kevin Scott, veteran Warren Haynes Band member and two-time Grammy-winning drummer Terence Higgins, Greg Osby and keyboardist and composer John Medeski. Together, the new Warren Haynes Band delivered a thrilling two-set show that wound throughout the prolific bandleader’s catalog, then plunged into a whirlpool of covers from the likes of Steely Dan, The Allman Brothers Band, and The Meters, whose iconic bassist George Porter Jr. joined for a surprise sit-in.

Haynes and his band set off the evening with Gov’t Mule’s 2001 standout Tear Me Down, then continued into “The Banks of The Deep End,” another cut from The Deep End, Vol. 1 that has become a live staple for Haynes in the past year after laying dormant for two decades. The group kept the deep cuts coming with “Spots of Time,” drawn from Haynes’ 2015 Ashes & Dust collaboration with Railroad Earth, and the guitarist’s classic cover of Little Milton’s “That’s What Love Will Make You Do.” Haynes demoed his new album Million Voices Whisper with “Lies, Lies, Lies” and “Till The Sun Comes Shining Through,” then ripped through the fan favorite Thorazine Shuffle and closed out the first set with “Man in Motion.”

Haynes’ second set leaned more on covers, spicing up the setlist with some widely relatable classics. After setting up with the new entry “Go Down Swinging,” the band tore into this new vein by welcoming Porter Jr. to the stage. Alongside the vaunted NOLA bassist, the ensemble issued a debut cover of The Meters’ “Just Kissed My Baby,” then followed with a 13-year bust-out of “Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley.”

When the longtime friend and collaborator bid Haynes and the crowd farewell, the artist blazed on with his fifth-ever treatment of the Grateful Dead’s “Black Peter.” After the Allman Brothers Band classic “Instrumental Illness,” a hard pivot led the band into Steely Dan’s “Pretzel Logic” and the set closer “Invisible.” Haynes and his cadre returned for an encore with the new single “This Life as We Know It,” then closed out the show with a well-earned “Soulshine.”

For more information on Million Voices Whisper and Haynes’ next moves, visit warrenhaynes.net.

Read on for the complete setlist from Friday night.

Warren Haynes Band
The Capitol Theatre – Port Chester, N.Y.
10/11/24

Set I: Tear Me Down, Banks of the Deep End, Spots of Time, That’s What Love Will Make You Do*, Lies, Lies, Lies, Till The Sun Comes Shining Through, Thorazine Shuffle, Man in Motion
Set II: Go Down Swinging, Just Kissed My Baby+^, Sneakin’ Sally Thru the Alley+& Black Peter%, Instrumental Illness#, Pretzel Logic@, Invisible
Encore: This Life As We Know It, Soulshine

Notes:
* Little Milton cover
+ w/ George Porter Jr.
^ The Meters cover
& Robert Palmer cover
% Grateful Dead cover
# The Allman Brothers Band cover
@ Steely Dan cover