Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview: 'Break Free'

Dave Matthews Band is hitting the studio early this year to record the follow-up to 2005's Stand Up, and Blog-Eyed Fish is taking a look at every song that could potentially appear on the new album. In Part Four of the Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview, we focus on "Break Free."

Dave Matthews Band and Stand Up producer Mark Batson wrote "Break Free" during their spring 2006 studio sessions. The song made its live debut a few weeks into the 2006 summer tour, on June 13 in Toronto.

DMB played "Break Free" 19 times that summer and even released its July 8 performance as part of the Live Trax Volume 6 album. But the song completely disappeared in 2007 as DMB moved on to a different batch of new songs.

Why "Break Free" will end up on the new Dave Matthews Band album: DMB put in a lot of work to tweak and refine the song during soundchecks and performances in 2006.

Why it won't: By the time DMB returned to the studio in November 2006 and January 2007, the song had "fallen out of favor" with the band, according to AntsMarching.org.

Video: Dave Matthews Band "Break Free"

If you haven't voted on previous songs yet, you can here:
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Three: "Kill the King"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Two: "Sister"
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part One: "The Idea of You"