One For The Road: The Brothers Round Out Two-Night Madison Square Garden Stint [Photos/Videos/Audio]

On Tuesday evening, The Brothers closed a five-year loop with their return to Madison Square Garden, the place they first and solely prior present simply earlier than COVID-19 shut the world down. On Wednesday, the latter-day Allman Brothers Band offshoot continued, per scripture, down the unending highway they helped to pave with yet one more evening on the World’s Most Famous Arena.

The Brothers—comprised of the band’s sole surviving authentic member, drummer Jaimoe, along with veteran members Warren Haynes (guitar, lead vocals), Derek Trucks (guitar), Oteil Burbridge (bass), and Marc Quiñones (percussion)—have been joined as soon as once more by Joe Russo (drums), Reese Wynans (organ), and particular visitor Chuck Leavell (keys), whose appearances in each units reliably pushed the band in artistic instructions.

The query on many followers’ lips as they filed into the Garden for evening two pertained to the setlist: Last evening featured a ton of heavy-hitters; would the setlist keep the identical for evening two?

The reply largely wound up being “no.” Only six of the 21 songs The Brothers performed on Wednesday additionally appeared on Tuesday’s setlist, and 4 of these six moved from set one to set two or vice versa. In reality, the one two songs that appeared in the identical slot on each nights have been a primary set-closing “Jessica” and an encore “Whipping Post”—one thing no Allman Brothers Band fan would possible need to change.

After all, “Jessica” is one thing of a signature music for each the Allman Brothers Band and Chuck Leavell (that’s him spinning rock piano gold on the unique 1973 Brothers & Sisters studio model), and a climactic “Whipping Post” was an enormous cause why all of us have been right here within the first place: As the band famous when these MSG reveals have been introduced, the 2025 return of The Brothers was impressed by final fall’s SOULSHINE hurricane aid profit, the place Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks reconnected on the Garden’s hallowed stage for, amongst different picks, a show-stopping Whipping Post (which occurred to function Joe Russo on drums).

That form of “as a result of it feels good” power crammed the stage on Wednesday evening as Warren and Derek led the band by a setlist heavy on smokey blues vamps, stunning jams on Allman Brothers deep cuts (“Desdemona”, sizzling rattling!), cathartic sing-alongs (“Soulshine” and “Melissa” introduced emotion in abundance), thunderous peaks, and moments of awe-inspiring exploration on foundational ABB compositions like “Blue Sky”, “Midnight Rider”, and “Les Brers in A Minor”.

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Underscoring the distinctive musicianship was a tone of deep reverence, from the visible (the previous “new guys” in a band that predates them now wanting just like the elder statesmen they’re in the present day, wearing stylish black fits underneath a liquid-light mushroom) to the emotional (seeing a large grin on a bouncing, exuberant Burbridge is par for the course, however I don’t assume I’ve ever seen Derek Trucks smile a lot onstage).

None of those musicians essentially want to play the Allman Brothers Band’s music. More than half of the gamers onstage on the Garden this week produce other bands that play venues the identical dimension or greater than the Allmans did for a lot of its tenure. Warren’s acquired Gov’t Mule and the Warren Haynes Band. Derek’s acquired Tedeschi Trucks Band (from which he enlisted alternate Brothers drummer Isaac Eady). Joe usually hits amphitheaters and main festivals with Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. Marc excursions with The Doobie Brothers. Oteil returns to Sphere with Dead & Company this weekend. Chuck has been musical director for The Rolling Stones for 40+ years. But they returned to bear the Allman Brothers Band mantle as a result of they, like so many people, perceive the timelessness of its affect.

Jaimoe, who performed for a lot of the present with Eady subbing in solely often, beamed with pleasure as he stepped to the microphone in his “SOUND IS GOD” t-shirt for the ultimate phrase on his Brothers at MSG: “I don’t know what I’d do with out these guys, and we don’t know what we’d do with out you. Why don’t we come again tomorrow evening and do it once more?”

If solely, Jaimoe. Here’s to catching you once more additional on down the highway.

Below, view the setlist from evening two of The Brothers at MSG in addition to a full viewers audio recording, a collection of movies, and a gallery of photographs from the evening through David Gray.

Setlist: The Brothers | Madison Square Garden | New York, NY | 4/16/25
Set One: Don’t Want You No More (Spencer Davis Group), It’s Not My Cross to Bear, I Must Have Done Somebody Wrong (Eddie Kirkland), Revival, Every Hungry Woman, Dreams, I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Willie Dixon), Soulshine [1], Stand Back [1], Desdemona [1], Jessica [1]
Set Two: Melissa, Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’, No One to Run With, One Way Out (Elmore James), Midnight Rider [1], Good Morning School Girl (Sonny Boy Williamson) [1], Blue Sky [1], Les Brers in A Minor [1], Southbound [1]
Encore: Whipping Post
Notes: Band lineup featured The Brothers—Jaimoe (drums), Warren Haynes (guitars, vocals), Derek Trucks (guitars), Oteil Burbridge (bass), and Marc Quiñones (percussion)—together with Joe Russo (drums), Reese Wynans (keys), Isaac Eady (drums). All songs by the Allman Brothers Band besides the place in any other case famous; [1] with Chuck Leavell.

The Brothers – Madison Square Garden – 4/15/25 – Full-Show Audio
[Audio: Taped by Alex Leary]

The Brothers – “Don’t Want You No More”, “It’s Not My Cross to Bear”, “I Must Have Done Somebody Wrong” [Pro-Shot] – 4/16/25