Warren Haynes will release a new album celebrating his recent orchestral work, Dreams & Songs: A Symphonic Journey, on Friday, September 18 via Evil Teen Records and, in Europe, the Provogue/Artone Label Group. Alongside the news, Haynes has also released a reworked version of the Gov’t Mule tune “Raven Black Night (Live),” the latest single from the 16-track collection. The song originally appeared on the Mule’s 1998 sophomore album Dose.

“I had come up with this arrangement that went from ‘Raven Black Night’ into ‘Silent Scream Pt. 2’ and back into ‘Raven Black Night’,” Haynes said along with the album announce. “The way those two things married together is really cool, and the way the orchestra accepted that challenge was really amazing. I think the way those two songs work together kind of lend themselves to orchestration, in some ways, more than anything else on this recording. They sound like the orchestration completes the thought, like the orchestration sounds like part of the composition, which is a tall order and very high praise indeed. I love the arrangement for the piece and really enjoyed singing ‘Raven Black Night’ in that light, because the original recording had no drums and was very stripped-down. It had a little percussion thing in the middle and no bass. Whereas this arrangement is just full-bodied, full orchestration—the opposite of the original—and it really takes it to a place that completes it and turns it into another thing.”

Haynes co-produced Dreams & Songs: A Symphonic Journey with Don Was. The set was recorded at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, in Haynes’ hometown of Asheville, NC, in 2019, when Haynes debuted his Dreams & Songs symphonic show alongside the 64-piece Asheville Symphony Orchestra. Bassist Oteil Burbridge, keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Jeff Sipe and saxophonist Greg Osby, as well as vocalists Edwin McCain and Jasmine Muhammad, took part in the program, too.

Bob Clearmountain (David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones) mixed the set, which includes songs Haynes original performed with Gov’t Mule, The Allman Brothers Band and The Dead–and on his myriad solo albums. In addition, Haynes recruited a team of orchestral arrangers for each individual track, including industry-renowned giants such as David Campbell (Adele, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce), Jim Gray (Barbra Streisand, Imagine Dragons), Tom Matta (Aretha Franklin, Art Garfunkel), Vince Mendoza (Sting, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell), Sean O’Loughlin (Josh Groban, Sarah McLachlan) and Chris Walden (Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder).

The guitarist has continued to collaborate with orchestras around the country since 2019, building on his work in Asheville at famed venues like Morrison, CO’s Red Rocks. Looking ahead, The Warren Haynes Dreams & Songs Symphonic Experience will present shows at Nashville’s the Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Thursday, March 11 and Friday, March 12, 2027. Before then, Gov’t Mull will kick off a run of dates at Deerfield, MA’s Summer Stage at Tree House Brewing Company on July 22.

Dreams & Songs: A Symphonic Journey Track Listing:

1.  Dreams & Songs (Part 1)

2.  Dreams

3.  Banks Of The Deep End

4.  Spots of Time

5.  Broken Promised Land

6.  Thorazine Shuffle

7.  It Makes No Difference

8.  Terrapin Station > Slipknot! > Terrapin Station

9.  Raven Black Night > Silent Scream > Raven Black Night

10. Just Another Rider

11.  Black Peter

12.  Instrumental Illness

13.  One

14.  Shakedown Street

15.  Whipping Post

16.  Dreams & Songs (Reprise)