Warren Haynes shaped the Allman Brothers’ 1989 reunion, adding his unique blend to the band’s original sound and spirit. “When the band called me in ’89 about the reunion, one of the first things we talked about was that we needed to get back to ’69, ’70, ’71 where the band started because if we could get back there, then the sky’s the limit. But we had to see if the new band and this new chemistry could capture that sound and that feeling.⁠ Dickey told me several times they felt like they just backed out of the music business because the environment that was going on at the time was so different, they felt like they didn’t belong. But then Robert Cray started having some success. Stevie Ray Vaughan came on the scene and was really knocking people out, and at the same time, the Grateful Dead’s audience was getting bigger and bigger. Dickey said to me, ‘You know, somewhere in between, there is us. So maybe it’s time for us to come back.’ ⁠So the Allman Brothers band came back by being themselves, and I think that’s why it lasted as long as it did. Now, people look at that music as being timeless.” Warren Haynes 📷Kirk West⁠