Yola stepped out from behind the DJ booth for guest appearances with Gov’t Mule at two stops on the Dreaming The Same Dream Tour. She sang lead on “Me & Bobby McGee” in Raleigh on Saturday and Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog” in Richmond on Sunday.
The performances were the tour’s first collaborations. Yola is serving as DJ and MC at each stop of the co-headlining run featuring Mule and Ziggy Marley. Her two song choices also reached back to Mule’s New Year’s Eve 2025 concert, when she sang both covers during the band’s “1971: The Year Music Changed The World” set. That show marked Mule’s first performance of “Me & Bobby McGee” and, until Sunday, its most recent “Black Dog.”
Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster wrote “Me & Bobby McGee,” which Roger Miller recorded before Janis Joplin’s version appeared on her posthumously released 1971 album Pearl. Led Zeppelin released “Black Dog” later that year on its untitled fourth album, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV…