Lukas Nelson Jams With Gov’t Mule In Lewiston

After a pair of performances at The Peach Festival this past weekend, Gov’t Mule was in upstate New York on Tuesday for a gig at Artpark Amphitheater in Lewiston. While heavy rain delayed the start of their set for over two hours the quartet finally took the stage for an abbreviated show that saw them team up with Lukas Nelson for a pair of covers to close out their night.

Warren Haynes & Co. got their night near Niagra Falls going with “Bad Little Doogie” from the band’s 2000 release Life Before Insanity. The four-piece act then served up a pair of tracks from Déjà Voodoo with “Lola, Leave Your Light On” and “Slackjaw Jezebel.” The latter featured a tease on the Allman Brothers Band’s “Les Brers In A Minor” from the Southern rock act’s seminal 1972 release Eat A Peach, an album they’d revisit later in the night.

The band then sandwiched a take on the blues classic “When The Levee Breaks” in the midst of “I Think You Know What I Mean.” Mule then reached back for “Game Face” to kick-off the closing stretch of the night. Towards the end of the old-school tune guitarist-vocalist, Lukas Nelson emerged. With Nelson in tow, whose band Promise of The Real opened the night, the ad-hoc ensemble returned back to the Allman Brothers’ songbook for a take on “Mountain Jam.” Mule and Nelson then closed things out with one more cover looking to the Neil Young jam-vehicle “Cortez The Killer” to bring the soggy night to an end.

Watch some short fan-captured Instagram videos of “Cortez The Killer” below:

Setlist

Bad Little Doggie, Lola Leave Your Light On, Slackjaw Jezebel, I Think You Know What I Mean > When The Levee Breaks > I Think You Know What I Mean, Game Face (Part 1) > Mountain Jam* > Cortez The Killer*

* w. Lukas Nelson