- Life Before Insanity
Infobox Album
Name = Life Before Insanity
Type = studio
Artist =Gov't Mule
Released = Start date|2000|2|15
Recorded = Muscle Shoals Studios,Sheffield, AL and Water Music,Hoboken, NJ
Genre = Rock
Length = 73:50
Label = Capricorn
Producer =Michael Barbiero
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gvfexqekldte link]
Last album = "Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends "
(1999)
This album = "Life Before Insanity"
(2000)
Next album = "The Deep End, Volume 1 "
(2001)"Life Before Insanity" is the third studio album by
Gov't Mule , released in2000 . It is the last album recorded with founding memberAllen Woody , who died shortly after its release.Track listing
All songs by
Warren Haynes unless otherwise noted.# "Wandering Child" (Haynes,
Matt Abts ) – 6:05
# "Life Before Insanity" (Haynes, Danny Louis) – 6:12
# "Bad Little Doggie" (Haynes, Abts,Allen Woody ) – 3:48
# "Lay Your Burden Down" (Haynes,Michael Barbiero ) – 5:27
# "Fallen Down" – 6:58
# "World Gone Wild" – 6:17
# "Tastes Like Wine" – 6:57
# "I Think You Know What I Mean" – 4:55
# "Far Away" – 5:54
# "No Need To Suffer" – 8:20
# "In My Life" – 4:40
#*"If I Had Possession over Judgment Day" (Robert Johnson) – 7:50, following 0:27 of silencePersonnel
*
Warren Haynes –guitar ,slide guitar , vocals
*Allen Woody – bass,mandolin on "Life Before Insanity",electric upright bass on "Tastes Like Wine",rhythm guitar on "I Think You Know What I Mean",fretless bass on "Far Away", dulcitar on "In My Life"
*Matt Abts – drums,djembe , ashika on "In My Life"Additional personnel
*
Michael Barbiero –glockenspiel on "Far Away"
* Hook Herrera –harmonica on "Bad Little Doggie" and "I Think You Know What I Mean"
*Ben Harper – vocals and lap steel on "Lay Your Burden Down"
* Johnny Neel – organ, Wurlitzer piano and background vocalsProduction
* Michael Barbiero – producer, engineer, mixing
* Ray Martin – mixing, additional engineering
* Warren Haynes – mixing
* Brodie Hutcheson – mixing, additional engineering
* Dan Jurow – additional engineering
* Greg Calbi – masteringReferences
*cite album-notes
title = Life Before Insanity
albumlink = Life Before Insanity
bandname = Gov't Mule
year = 2000
format = CD liner
publisher = Capricorn
publisherid = 314 546 489-2
location = Atlanta, GA
mbid = fa559209-2809-4503-896c-ce509d47f905
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