Dave and Boyd: New songs not likely this tour
Dave Matthews Band probably won’t play any new material on this year’s summer tour, according to Dave Matthews and Boyd Tinsley in separate interviews with Rolling Stone and Billboard.com, respectively.
DMB has been in the studio with producer Rob Cavallo this spring, working on the follow-up to 2005′s Stand Up. Boyd told Billboard that the album’s songs have been composed, but they don’t have lyrics, so he isn’t sure if the band will play them live yet.
“It might be a situation where we might take a couple of those in rehearsals and in sound checks and sort of work out arrangements to play this summer,” he said. “We haven’t really discussed that too much.”
Rolling Stone specifically asked Dave if the band would play any new songs, and he replied:
“In the past we have, but I want to let this album evolve on its own. There’s music on the album, and there’s music that we perform live. There’s crossover, but they’re not necessarily the same. And I think that makes it interesting for fans.”
DMB has already played several songs in concert that will likely appear on the next studio album, including “The Idea of You,” “Cornbread,” “#27″ and “Shotgun.” It remains to be seen whether DMB won’t play those songs this summer, or if Dave and Boyd were just referring to songs that fans haven’t heard yet.
The tour starts in just 10 days, May 30 in Burgettstown, Pa.
