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 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.

# "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 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

References

*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
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