Warren Haynes sat down with Patrick Doyle of Rolling Stone for an enlightening new interview. The guitarist, among other things, left the door open for a future Allman Brothers Band reunion, saying, “You know, I would never rule anything out. There’s no talk of that, but you know, I think the door’s always open.”

On a related note, Haynes said that he wished the Grateful Dead had played more reunion shows, and went on to compare his experiences with the Allman Brothers and The Dead, explaining:

I tend to look at every situation differently. Playing with the Dead is all about relaxing and letting the music flow and come through you and not being in a hurry to force it to go somewhere, trusting that the music, the magic, will happen, and they’ve always been about waiting for that magic to happen and capturing it when it does happen. I learned a lot about that sort of philosophy because it’s very different from the Allman Brothers philosophy, which is, “Let’s make the magic happen right now.” But I love both approaches to improvisation and one’s kind of East Coast, and one’s kind of West Coast, but they’re both beautiful and being on the inside of both of them is a beautiful experience.

Doyle also asked Haynes if he thought that a new, young jamband could ever become as big as Dave Matthews Band, to which the guitarist responded:

Well, I think in order to be that, you have to be different from that. I think there are bands like the Revivalists that have the potential to do something like that, and there’s this young guitar player/singer from South Carolina named Marcus King who just turned 18 and is starting to stir up quite a bit of dust, and I think the potential for his music is endless as well.

As previously reported, Haynes will release his new album Ashes and Dust on July 24. He will then hit the road in support of the new record, which finds the guitarist backed by Railroad Earth.