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[Warren Haynes Invades with the Blues Against a 64-Piece Orchestra!? The Master of Soulful Sorrow Talks a New Frontier of "Improvisation and Roaring Sound"] At a perch in the deep of night, the ice in a cheap glass of whiskey makes a clinking sound. Gazing intently into the glass, a man thinks: "Life doesn't always go the way you want, but as long as you've got the pentatonic scale, you'll somehow get by." But what if a "64-piece full orchestra" was waiting right behind him? The moment you bungle a single-note string bend, 64 pairs of chilly glares would pierce your back... Just imagining it made the writer break out in a cold sweat on the commuter train and want to get off at the next stop. Yet, there is a man who pulls off such a terrifying blunder—no, such a sublime challenge—with a smile. None other than Warren Haynes, the undisputed titan of Southern rock and blues rock. …