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【Warren Haynes Cooks Up a 16-Song, 2-Hour Symphonic Epic! Can Gritty Blues Guitar Actually Beat an Orchestra?】 How are we doing, blues junkies across the nation, who night after night sell their souls to a 12-bar progression while nursing cheap bourbon at some dive bar counter? It’s Memphis Ray here, turning sighs into cigarette smoke over the scratch noise of a dropped needle. Right out of the gate, I have to ask you all. When you hear the words "bluesman teams up with a full orchestra," what kind of scene pops into your head? Most boozers would probably picture "a stray dog in a tuxedo standing out there looking deeply uncomfortable" or "a guitar playing its solo way more politely than usual, totally drowned out by the graceful melodies of the string section." Same here. I firmly believed forcing a bluesman to wear a clip-on bow tie was about as ridiculous as making a tiger eat vegetarian food. Turns out, though, this guy was the exception to the rule. None other than Warren Haynes, the hardest-working man in modern American roots music.…