Dave Matthews Band – Recently (1994)

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Recently is an EP by the Dave Matthews Band, released in 1994. All songs are live recordings. “Recently” is an edit of the live version found on Remember Two Things, recorded at The Flood Zone in Richmond, VA on August 10, 1993; “Dancing Nancies” and “Warehouse” were recorded at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia on February 21, 1994; “All Along the Watchtower” and “Halloween” were recorded at Trax in Charlottesville, Virginia on February 22, 1994.

Recently was initially sold only to fan club members. A captivating and enthralling release, the Dave Matthews Band put forth a strong effort to produce a record that identified their personality, blending a mix of soulful grooves and eclectic percussive rhythms to create a majestic portrait of musical art. Even at this point in the group’s career, each member seemed to be a gifted virtuoso at his instrument. Leroi Moore, educated in the art of jazz, lights up the beauty and richness of the sax on the EP’s full-band tracks, while Carter Beauford deepens the band’s texture with an overwhelming but alluring presence of rhythms. Boyd Tinsley is both elegant and colorful on violin, and Stefan Lessard jams with shimmering brilliance on bass. Also notable in the cameo made by accomplished guitarist/arranger extraordinaire Tim Reynolds, who shares the spotlight in the acoustic tune “Dancing Nancies.” Most importantly, this record grants the listeners an early look at the Dave Matthews Band’s strength as a live band, which would later be displayed on a number of longer, multi-disc concert releases. It’s interesting to dial things back, however — to hear the mysterious and haunting cover of “All Along the Watchtower” for the first time, to discover the early arrangements of some future concert staples, and to hear the band enjoying itself in its former hometown haunt of Trax in Charlottesville, VA.

 

Track listing

All songs written by Dave Matthews except where noted.Original EP

1. “Recently” (Edit 2) – 3:53
2. “Dancing Nancies” – 5:54
3. “Warehouse” – 5:10
4. “All Along the Watchtower” (Bob Dylan) – 7:03
5. “Halloween” – 6:30

Tracks 2 and 3 are live acoustic versions performed by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds.Promo EP

1. “Recently” (Radio Edit) – 3:31
2. “Ants Marching” (Radio Edit) – 4:36
3. “Tripping Billies” (Remember Two Things Radio Edit) – 4:45
4. “The Song That Jane Likes” (Radio Edit) – 3:23

 

The promotional cover of Recently exposed a portion of the woman’s breast, and the man stood farther back towards the left side of the image, with a pumpkin visible in his left hand. The Recently promo with this cover was released before the EP itself and features different tracks, including an alternate edit of the title song. The promotional release, informally referred to as the “Pumpkin Recently,” is currently one of the rarest releases in the band’s catalog.

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Bama Rags Recordings, LLC
• Copyright © – Bama Rags Recordings, LLC
• Recorded At – The Birchmere
• Recorded At – Trax, Charlottesville, VA
• Mixed At – Bias Studios
• Mixed At – Rutabaga Studios
• Mastered At – Airshow Mastering, Springfield, VA
• Lacquer Cut At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
• Designed At – 1021 Creative
• Pressed By – MPO
• Manufactured By – RCA Records
• Distributed By – RCA Records

Credits

• Arranged By – Boyd Tinsley, Carter Beauford, David Matthews, Leroi Moore, Stefan Lessard
• Arranged By [Additional] – Greg Howard (tracks: A1), John D’earth (tracks: A1), Tim Reynolds (tracks: A2, A3)
• Design [Package] – Cassandra Monroe, David Gorman
• Lacquer Cut By – cB
• Management, Booking – Coran Capshaw
• Mastered By – Dave Glasser
• Mixed By – Bob Dawson (tracks: A1), Bob Dawson (tracks: B1, B2), John Alagia
• Photography By – Christopher Bunn, Graeme Borchers
• Producer – Doug Derryberry
• Producer, Engineer, Mastered By – John Alagia
• Product Manager – Lindsay Brown, Patrick Jordan
• Research [Archivist] – Tucker Rogers
• Sleeve, Design – Thane Kerner
• Tracking By – Bill Wolf (tracks: A2, A3)

Notes
Released: May 17, 1994 / November 28, 2014 (vinyl re-issue)
Recorded: February 21–22, 1994 Venue / The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia / Trax in Charlottesville, Virginia
Genre: Rock
Length: 26:37

Label – Bama Rags

Dave Matthews Band – Weekend On The Rocks (2005)

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Weekend on the Rocks is a live album by Dave Matthews Band. It contains highlights of the four shows in four days the band performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado on September 9–12, 2005. The set is packaged on two CDs and one DVD. However, a complete recording of the four shows, entitled The Complete Weekend on the Rocks, is available on eight discs. This is the second officially released live recording of Dave Matthews Band concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The first was Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95.

The Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado loves Dave Matthews. This is the second live recording from Red Rocks he’s released in a decade. Weekend on the Rocks is a two-CD/single-DVD compilation from four concerts at the venue. It’s a teaser for the complete concerts available as an eight-CD set that contains the same DVD.
The tracks chosen here are not obvious choices, and that’s a good thing — thankfully there’s not yet another version of “Ants Dancing.”
The band is pumped here, and includes Fender Rhodes and P-organ master Butch Taylor guesting for the gig. Just listening to the woolly, loose, and actually gritty version of “American Baby” included here sounds like a different band. The ragged version of the Zombies‘ classic “Time of the Season,” should have been left off; they just can’t manage the vocals — the upper register they try to hit here is embarrassing. The jam-out in the middle of the cut is also unnecessary.
But the 16-and-a-half-minute version of “Bartender” that closes disc one is a monster. The playing is passionate, gutsy, and as edgy as this band ever gets. The wall of strummed acoustic guitars on “You Never Know,” offers an ethereal base for Matthews heartfelt singing. And it’s followed by the funk and roll of “Stand Up (For It),” slithering and sexual.

After this, sequencing gets weird. Granted, trying to boil four nights and eight CDs’ worth of material down to two is a real challenge. But after the intensity of “Stand Up (For It),” is it really necessary to place a 15-plus-minute version of “#41”? Ugh. “Louisiana Bayou,” and “Everyday,” fare far better as extended versions that close the set.
It has to be said, however, that there is still something missing here and its not only continuity. This band always sounds like they’re trying to break out into something raw, and wild and crazy, but they’re so mannered, they never, ever get there. Hardcore fans will want this since they need everything including bootlegs, but for the rest of us, Weekend on the Rocks is piece of curiosa

 

Disc one

1. “The Stone” – 10:10
2. “American Baby” – 4:31
3. “Time of the Season” – 4:29
4. “Say Goodbye” – 7:19
5. “#34” – 5:51
6. “Steady as We Go” – 4:18
7. “Hunger for the Great Light” – 3:41
8. “Bartender” – 16:37

Disc two

1. “Don’t Burn The Pig” – 7:01
2. “You Never Know” – 7:10
3. “Stand Up (For It)” – 4:22
4. “#41” – 15:20
5. “Stolen Away on 55th & 3rd” – 5:28
6. “Smooth Rider” – 12:10
7. “Halloween” – 4:55
8. “Louisiana Bayou” – 9:00
9. “Everyday” – 8:44

 

Dave Matthews Band

• Carter Beauford – drums, vocals
• Dave Matthews – guitar, vocals
• LeRoi Moore – horn, vocals
• Stefan Lessard – bass
• Boyd Tinsley – violin, vocals

Guest artists

• Robert Randolph – pedal steel
• Rashawn Ross – trumpet
• Butch Taylor – keyboards, vocals

Production

• John Alagia – mixing, producer
• Scott Campbell – mixing
• Coran Capshaw – executive producer
• C. Taylor Crothers – photography
• Mike Czaszwicz – engineer
• Rob Evans – digital assembly, digital editing
• Bruce Flohr – executive producer
• Terry Fryer – producer
• Patrick G. Jordan – executive producer
• Tosh Kasai – digital editing, engineer
• Chris Kress – digital assembly, digital editing
• Joe Lawlor – live recording
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering
• Hank Neuberger – producer
• Frank Pappalardo – engineer, mixing
• Jeff Romano – digital editing
• Brian Scheuble – mixing
• Joe Thomas – video director, video producer
• Stephen Warner – producer
• Stewart Whitmore – digital editing
• Fenton Williams – lighting design

Notes
Released:  November 29, 2005
Recorded:  Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado, September 9–12, 2005
Genre:  Rock
Length:  131:04

Label – RCA Records

Dave Matthews Band – Europe 2009 (3CD) (2010)

Dave Matthews Band (often abbreviated to DMB) is an American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from injuries sustained in an ATV accident. Grammy Award-winner Jeff Coffin^[4] (of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones) has since filled Moore’s spot as the band’s saxophonist. Rashawn Ross and Tim Reynolds have also become full-time members of the band.
The three-CD/one-DVD set Europe 2009 captures two different concerts: the CDs chronicles a July 5 concert in Lucca, Italy, and the DVD documents a June 26 show at the O2 Academy Brixton in London, England. Both concerts were given not long after the release of the band’s 2009 album Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King, so it’s not surprising that both draw deeply from that record. More interesting for longtime DMB fans, though, is that this is the first official document of the band after the death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore. The group reckoned with his passing on Big Whiskey, but in some ways, Europe 2009 offers a truer illustration of how they’re dealing with his absence, with the group finding some new twists and surprises within expected classics, seemingly gaining sustenance from the music while remaining a crowd-pleasing jam band.
The concert featured on the DVD was at Brixton Academy in London, on June 26, 2009. Tim Reynolds, who resumed touring with the band in 2008, appears on both the audio discs and the DVD.

Disc one

1. “Don’t Drink the Water” (Dave Matthews) – 8:59
2. “Shake Me Like a Monkey” (Carter Beauford/Stefan Lessard/Matthews/LeRoi Moore/Rashawn Ross/Boyd Tinsley) – 4:56
3. “You Might Die Trying” (Dave Matthews Band/Mark Batson) – 8:27
4. “Seven” (Beauford/Lessard/Matthews/Moore/Ross/Tinsley) – 4:43
5. “Funny the Way It Is” (Beauford/Lessard/Matthews/Moore/Ross/Tinsley) – 6:01
6. “So Damn Lucky” (Stephen Harris/Matthews) – 8:40
7. “Everyday” (Glen Ballard/Matthews) – 8:30
8. “Crash into Me” (Matthews) – 6:36

Disc two

1. “#41” (Dave Matthews Band) – 21:24
2. “Spaceman” (Beauford/Lessard/Matthews) – 5:01
3. “Corn Bread” (Matthews/Batson) – 6:37
4. “Lying in the Hands of God” (Beauford/Lessard/Matthews/Moore/Ross/Tinsley) – 9:45
5. “Jimi Thing” (Matthews) – 14:10
6. “Why I Am” (Beauford/Lessard/Matthews/Moore/Ross/Tinsley) – 4:43
7. “The Dreaming Tree” (Harris/Matthews) – 14:33

Disc three

1. “Alligator Pie” (Beauford/Lessard/Matthews) – 4:41
2. “Ants Marching” (Matthews) – 9:21
3. “Gravedigger” (Matthews) – 5:20
4. “Dive In” (Beauford/Matthews) – 6:46
5. “Two Step” (Matthews) – 18:45
6. “Rye Whiskey” (Traditional) – 3:21
7. “Pantala Naga Pampa” (Matthews) – 0:39
8. “Rapunzel” (Beauford/Lessard/Matthews) – 6:48

Dave Matthews Band

• Carter Beauford – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Stefan Lessard – bass guitar
• Dave Matthews – guitars, lead vocals
• Boyd Tinsley – violins, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Jeff Coffin – saxophones
• Tim Reynolds – electric guitars
• Rashawn Ross – trumpet, backing vocals

Notes
Released: December 22, 2009
Recorded: Piazza Napoleone, Lucca, Italy, July 5, 2009, and Brixton Academy, London, June 26, 2009
Genre: Rock
Length: 188:46

Label – RCA Records