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 Five of the Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview, we focus on "Shotgun."
"Shotgun" debuted June 10, 2006 as a simple, riff-based song and went through rather significant changes during that summer tour. The first version was the shortest, coming in at 4 minutes, 45 seconds, while the longest version later in the tour was 10 minutes, 49 seconds long.
Dave Matthews Band worked on the song in the studio in November 2006 and January 2007, then brought it out for the 2007 summer tour. By then the band had eliminated the song's outro, cutting the song length to around seven or eight minutes.
The lyrics to "Shotgun" change regularly, but they are always about committing suicide for one reason or another.
Why "Shotgun" will end up on the new Dave Matthews Band album: Many fans think it is the best song DMB has written in years, and the band has put a lot of work into it both live and in the studio.
Why it won't: It has very dark subject matter, which DMB has mostly shied away from since the Lillywhite Sessions debacle.
Video: Dave Matthews Band "Shotgun"
If you haven't voted on previous songs yet, you can here:
Dave Matthews Band New Album Preview Part Four: "Break Free"
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"
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