Warren Haynes & Derek Trucks Find ‘Real, Real Love’ In New Live Performance Video

Warren Haynes and longtime The Allman Brothers Band cohort Derek Trucks teamed up to perform “Real, Real Love” in a new video shared on YouTube. The studio version of the song is featured on Haynes’ recently released album, Million Voices Whisper.

“This was a song that was started but never finished by Gregg Allman. He had showed it to me and we had talked about it, and I completed it after he died,” Haynes said of the track. “I finished it in a way that’s reflective of the way Gregg wrote and then invited Derek Trucks to be part of the recording process, which really took it to the desired next level. I wanted to write it as if Gregg were singing it. Even in the way we approach the song as a band, and in the way I approach it as a singer, I had his presence in mind the entire time.”

“I remember Warren calling me saying he had this lyric that he was working on with Gregg before he passed,” Trucks added. “Immediately that’s intriguing and feels like something you have to finish, and he wanted me to be part of it. The way we went about recording it with Warren singing and me playing fills immediately made me think about Duane and Gregg doing ‘Please Call Home’ and that feeling, so that is where my head was thinking about that and those guys.”

While Haynes initially planned to only have Trucks contribute to “Real, Real Love,” Derek wound up co-writing and performing on two additional Million Voices Whisper cuts: “These Changes” and “Hall of Future Saints.” The songs mark the pair’s first studio collaboration since the the 2003 release of the final ABB album, Hittin’ The Note.

Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks stripped “Real, Real Love” down to a powerful duet for the newly-shared video. Watch the performance captured in black-and-white below:

Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks will both perform at “Soulshine” this Sunday, November 24. Proceeds from the benefit concert at New York City’s Madison Square Garden will go towards hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina and Florida. A livestream of the sold-out concert is available.

Haynes recently announced his Million Voices Whisper Tour 2025. The 10-date run will feature the Warren Haynes Band.