At Mountain Jam 2016, Warren Haynes and wife Stef Scamardo sat down with SiriusXM JamON’s Ari Fink for an interview. During the chat, Haynes discussed writing the song “Patchwork Quilt” upon hearing about the passing of Jerry Garcia on August 9th, 1995. Haynes had been at Jones Beach Amphitheater on Long Island for an Allman Brothers Band show, along with Chris Robinson and The Black Crowes.
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Discussing the sullen mood, Haynes expounded, “We were standing backstage at Jones Beach… and seeing Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes walking across the stage, we had done a lot of playing and touring together, and Chris is a very animated person. And he was so low-key and sad, but everyone was like that. There is a line in the song ‘We all feel old and in the way’ and that’s what it was.”
“Patchwork Quilt”
Scamardo explained that when the two got home, Haynes had told her that he wrote a song about Garcia. Haynes said, “I had written these few lines when we played in Telluride, I had written ‘There is a banjo moon in a tie-dyed sky…Hippies dancing, babies cry,’ which I had written in my book.” The connection was made, and thus, we now have “Patchwork Quilt.”
Take a listen to the interview below:
Warren Haynes on Writing “Patchwork Quilt”
[Video: SiriusXM]
[Originally published 6/5/16]