There was a time when every rock 'n' roll movement sprung from the grass roots. And while much has changed over the years, a band working entirely on its own can generate the kind of organic electricity that marketers spend a fortune trying to create. Case in point: the Dave Matthews Band.
Their self-released debut, 1993's Remember Two Things, sold at a rate of more than 10,000 copies per month -- a remarkable feat, considering the album was distributed exclusively from the band's office. Their major-label debut, Under the Table and Dreaming was produced by Steve Lillywhite and captures every nuance of the band's live shows.
With singer/guitarist Matthews' vulnerable, expressive voice at the fore, the band (reedman LeRoi Moore, violinist Boyd Tinsley, bassist Stefan Lessard and drummer Carter Beauford) weaves a mesh of sound, that the Raleigh Spectator described as "stunning...as cool, as evil and as furious as rock has ever been."
The band's third album, 1996's Crash, contained the radio mega-hit "Crash Into Me," which was nominated for two Grammy Awards.
In October 1997, the DMB released a double CD of the group's August 1995 live performance at Red Rocks in Colorado. The following year, they released their first studio album in two years, Before These Crowded Streets, following it up with another tour. In the February of 2001, the Dave Matthews Band released the long-awaited Everyday.
In 2003, Matthews released his first solo album, the moody and brooding Some Devil. A "Dave Matthews and Friends" tour followed and the album's single, "Gravedigger," earned Matthews the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. The Dave Matthews Band was back on the road in 2004, and also released more live material. In early 2005, they launched a website that featured progress reports on their next album in the form of video footage, diaries, and soundbites. When the flawed Stand Up finally appeared in May, it was the band's first album of all-new material since 2001's Everyday. Weekend on the Rocks, another live set, followed Stand Up at the end of the year. In 2006 the two disc compilation The Best of What's Around, Vol. 1 presented one disc of previously released studio material and one of unreleased live recordings. The year 2007 found Matthews and Tim Reynolds touring Europe and then America. Work had also begun on a new Dave Matthews Band studio album. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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