This week, the Warren Haynes Band have wound through the final stops on its 2025 Million Voices Whisper Tour. Following an outset in the Pacific Northwest and an exhaustive eight-show California run, the Haynes-fronted quartet of Southern and blues-rock torchbearers touched down in San Diego for their final Golden State stand on Wednesday, May 14. In that performance at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, the group tore through a litany of Haynes’ greatest hits and hit a live debut along the way.
The Warren Haynes Band stepped into the spotlight with some energy-building band introductions, then lit up Gov’t Mule’s “Tear Me Down,” drawn from the celebrated 2001 collection The Deep End, Vol. 1. After this rousing kickoff, the group raced into a mix of key selections from 2011’s Man in Motion, 2015’s Ashes & Dust and 2024’s Million Voices Whisper before turning up the heat for their first-ever cover of Freddie King’s Lone Star State blues essential “Big Legged Woman (With A Short Short Mini Skirt).” This crowd-pleasing landmark treatment charged the band up for a set-closing rager of “Instrumental Illness.”
Haynes and his faithful accompanists returned to the stage for their second frame with “Just Another Rider,” the track he co-authored with Gregg Allman for the latter’s 2011 record “Low Country Blues.” Other setlist staples like “Man in Motion,” “Thorazine Shuffle” and a cover of “A Change Is Gonna Come” led the way to the perennial high-spirited finale “Soulshine.” For one last thank you to the crowd, the Warren Haynes Band served up an encore of their time-tested treatment of Steely Dan’s “Pretzel Logic.”
The Warren Haynes Band will conclude its 2025 Million Voices Whisper Tour tonight with a show at the Fox Theatre in Tucson, Ariz. After the lights go down, the group will run off into a stacked lap of the summer festival circuit, starting with a set at Dark Star Orchestra’s Dark Star Jubilee in Thornville, Ohio on May 25. For tickets and more information, visit warrenhaynes.net.
