Life Before Insanity

Life Before Insanity
Studio album by Gov't Mule
Released	February 15, 2000 (2000-02-15)
Recorded	Muscle Shoals Studios, Sheffield, AL and Water Music, Hoboken, NJ
Genre	Southern rock, hard rock, blues rock
Length	73:50
Label	Capricorn
Producer	Michael Barbiero
Gov't Mule chronology
Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends (1999) Life Before Insanity (2000) The Deep End, Volume 1 (2001)

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Life Before Insanity is the third studio album by Gov't Mule, produced and recorded by Michael Barbiero and released in 2000. It is the last album recorded with founding member Allen Woody, who died shortly after its release.

Track listing

All songs by Warren Haynes unless otherwise noted.

1. "Wandering Child" (Haynes, Matt Abts) – 6:05
2. "Life Before Insanity" (Haynes, Danny Louis) – 6:12
3. "Bad Little Doggie" (Haynes, Abts, Allen Woody) – 3:48
4. "Lay Your Burden Down" (Haynes, Michael Barbiero) – 5:27
5. "Fallen Down" – 6:58
6. "World Gone Wild" – 6:17
7. "Tastes Like Wine" – 6:57
8. "I Think You Know What I Mean" – 4:55
9. "Far Away" – 5:54
10. "No Need To Suffer" – 8:20
11. "In My Life" – 4:40
    • "If I Had Possession over Judgment Day" (Robert Johnson) – 7:50, following 0:27 of silence

Personnel

• 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 vocals

Production

• Michael Barbiero – producer, engineer, mixing
• Ray Martin – mixing, additional engineering
• Warren Haynes – mixing
• Brodie Hutcheson – mixing, additional engineering
• Dan Jurow – additional engineering
• Greg Calbi – mastering
• Mark Pagliaro- guitar,bass,mandolin,amp,tech

References

External links

• Life Before Insanity (CD liner). Gov't Mule. Atlanta, GA: Capricorn. 2000. 314 546 489-2.