Dave Matthews Band will start recording a new album in January in Seattle.

Stefan Lessard told KBCO-FM in Colorado that the DMB 2012 album sessions will start at the beginning of the year, likely followed by a tour. In addition, indications are that producer Steve Lillywhite will reunite with the band for this album.

“We are psyched to get back together and start working a little more next year,” Stefan said during a Yukon Kornelius interview with KBCO.

Here’s what we know about Lillywhite possibly producing the DMB 2012 album. On Dec. 23, in response to a fan’s question  about the band’s plans for next year, Stefan wrote on Twitter: “I have no info Seattle Lillywhite all I know.” And yesterday, Lillywhite tweeted: “back in NY for a week and then I travel west for a while…”

Lillywhite produced the first three DMB studio albums, Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash and Before These Crowded Streets. He stopped working with DMB after the band abandoned its 2000 studio work with him and recorded Everyday with producer Glen Ballard. The Lillywhite Sessions leaked in 2001, and DMB re-recorded most of those songs for official release (without Lillywhite) on the 2002 album Busted Stuff.

In 2008, Lillywhite came out and said he was upset that DMB re-recorded songs from the Lillywhite Sessions without thanking him in the Busted Stuff liner notes. But two years later, he said he’d love to work with DMB again, and Dave Matthews said DMB and Lillywhite could do another album together in the future.

There is no timetable for the DMB 2012 album release or any indication of what songs it will include. DMB has a significant number of songs from the past several years that it has never recorded or released on an album, but the band has shown an inclination to record mostly new music for its past few albums.

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