Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The dreaming tree (Dave Matthews Band) (LP 3109)

Dave Matthews Band  Before These Crowded Streets (CD, RCA Records, 1998) ***  

GenrePop rock, jazz rock 

Places I remember: Shona Walding collection

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Don't Drink The Water

Gear costume: Crush

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5

Active compensatory factors: This isn't the sort of thing I'd buy but I'm happy to accept it as a donation to my collection.

Apparently, this is the third album by Dave Matthews Band. I don't know his other work so this is a one off for me. The Middle Eastern grooves are interesting (and welcome) and the improvisation aspect is borrowed from jazz rock or even jazz fusion. As you know - big fan of jazz fusion!

The songs are generally quite lengthy but to my mind they need some melody and editing. To be fair, it's a bit hard to categorise their music.

I guess I'm just not a huge fan of Dave's gruff vocal style, and the music is fine but, ultimately, and strangely, not really my thing.

Where do they all belong? As indicated - a one-off.

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