Showing posts with label Dave Matthews Band. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dave Matthews Band. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

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

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

Genre: Pop 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 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 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.