New Dave Matthews Band song ‘Gaucho’ released
A new Dave Matthews Band song, “Gaucho,” was just made available as a free download.
Warehouse members received an email about the new Dave Matthews Band song, “Gaucho,” with this note from Dave Matthews:
Hey everybody, here’s something new. We had fun making it.
Hope you like it,
Dave
The song’s lyrics focus on social responsibility, and the music makes for one of the more experimental DMB songs, complete with children singing the chorus a la Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2).” The children are from Dave’s children’s school, and “Gaucho” will appear on the new Dave Matthews Band album, according to producer Steve Lillywhite. The title “Gaucho,” which in Spanish and Portuguese roughly means “cowboy,” likely refers to the song’s Latin influence in parts.
Today’s announcement also said the new DMB album will come out in September.
What do you think of the new Dave Matthews Band song, “Gaucho?” Let us know in the comments!
Live Trax Vol. 22: 7.14.10 Montage Mountain, Scranton, PA
Dave Matthews Band performs at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 2008.
Live Trax Vol. 22: 7.14.10 Montage Mountain, Scranton, PA, Dave Matthews Band’s latest Live Trax album, is now available for pre-order.
The two-disc set captures DMB’s July 14, 2010 concert in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which was the longest show of the 2010 summer tour. Live Trax Vol. 22 features seven songs that cross the 10-minute barrier, including “Grace is Gone,” “Lying in the Hands of God” and “#41.” Other highlights include “The Stone” as the opener, “Two Step” as the closer and a nearly 16-minute version of “So Damn Lucky” in the encore. The album also includes the first performance of the “One Sweet World” instrumental intro since 2003.
Here’s the full track listing for Live Trax Vol. 22:
Disc One
- “The Stone”
- “Warehouse”
- “Grace Is Gone”
- “Seven”
- “You Might Die Trying”
- “Tripping Billies”
- “Cry Freedom”
- “Lying in the Hands of God”
Disc Two
- “Gravedigger”
- “One Sweet World”
- Improv Jam
- “Pantala Naga Pampa”/”Rapunzel”
- “Why I Am”
- “Busted Stuff”
- “#41″
- “Shake Me Like a Monkey”
- “Two Step”
- “You and Me”
- “So Damn Lucky”
Live Trax Vol. 22 is the first Live Trax from the Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King era, but it only features five songs from that album. DMB will release the live album June 12.
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DMB on Every Mother Counts 2012 benefit album
Model and Every Mother Counts founder Christy Turlington Burns (right) works on her Every Mother Counts campaign.
Dave Matthews Band is on Every Mother Counts 2012, a new benefit album.
DMB’s contribution to Every Mother Counts 2012 is a previously unreleased live version of “Sister.” Proceeds from the album will benefit Every Mother Counts, an organization fighting to reduce the worldwide maternal mortality rate.
Every Mother Counts 2012 also features previously unreleased tracks from Bpno and the Edge, Eddie Vedder, Coldplay, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and more, according to Rolling Stone. Other artists on the Every Mother Counts benefit album include Sting, Seal, Lauryn Hill and David Bowie.
Starbucks will begin selling Every Mother Counts 2012 exclusively May 1, and the benefit album will be available through May 29.
Dave Matthews Band new album 2012: What we know so far
Thanks to the Dave Matthews Band new album, 2012 will be an exciting year for DMB fans.
DMB has been exceptionally tight-lipped about the new album, but some information has come out here and there. This list features all the confirmed details we have so far.
We’ll update this list with more Dave Matthews Band new album information as it becomes available, so check back often.
Dave Matthews Band new album 2012 details
DMB entered a Seattle studio in early January with producer Steve Lillywhite. The band played the songs live, Lillywhite took drum recordings from those performances, and then the band members re-recorded their parts over those drum tracks. It only took six hours to record all of the horn parts for the new DMB album.
Dave Matthews Band’s new album will be out in September.
Lillywhite was mastering the album, the final step in the production process, on May 2. Mastering usually takes a day, according to an earlier tweet.
The first song confirmed for the new album is “Mercy,” which Dave Matthews performed on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” in April. That slow, acoustic version was not like the album recording, which Lillywhite said is “not just acoustic” and “not quiet.”
Another song confirmed for the new album is “Gaucho,” which DMB released as a free download May 18.
The new album is “about 55 minutes” long, according to Lillywhite, with somewhere between 11 and 15 tracks. The shortest song is “2 [minutes] and change,” and there is a track longer than eight minutes.
The last track on the new album is Lillywhite and Stefan Lessard’s favorite last track from any DMB album. Lillywhite described it as “very uplifting.” “Mercy” is not this song, and “Gaucho” isn’t either.
Lillywhite compared the album to DMB’s “big three” (Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash and Before These Crowded Streets) by using the term “Big 4” in a February tweet.
Tower of Power’s Roger Smith plays keyboard on “a couple of tunes” on Dave Matthews Band’s new album. His specific instrument is a Hammond organ.
There are no old recordings of LeRoi Moore on the album. The saxophone parts are “all Jeff [Coffin].”
