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Dave Matthews Band: Away from the World

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Bama Rags Records
Released: 2012.09.11
Time:
 54:00
Category: Alternative Rock
Producer(s): Steve Lillywhite
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.davematthewsband.com
Appears with: Boyd Tinsley, Jeff Coffin
Purchase date: 2013
Price in €: 1,00





 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Broken Things (D.Matthews/J.Alagia) - 3:48
[2] Belly Belly Nice (D.Matthews/R.Ross) - 3:53
[3] Mercy (D.Matthews) - 4:28
[4] Gaucho (S.Lessard/D.Matthews/T.Reynolds/R.Ross) - 4:25
[5] Sweet (D.Matthews) - 4:12
[6] The Riff (D.Matthews/R.Ross) - 5:35
[7] Belly Full (D.Matthews/J.Alagia) - 1:43
[8] If Only (D.Matthews) - 5:38
[9] Rooftop (D.Matthews) - 4:12
[10] Snow Outside (C.Beauford/S.Lessard/D.Matthews/B.Tinsley/J.Coffin/T.Reynolds/R.Ross) - 6:11
[11] Drunken Soldier (C.Beauford/S.Lessard/D.Matthews/B.Tinsley/J.Coffin/T.Reynolds/R.Ross) - 9:45

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Carter Beauford - Drums, Vocals
Stefan Lessard - Bass, Double Bass, Rhodes
Dave Matthews - Acoustic, Electric Guitars, Ukulele, Piano, Lead Vocals, Art Direction, Illustrations
Jeff Coffin - Saxophone, Flute
Boyd Tinsley - Electric Violin, Violin
Tim Reynolds - Electric Guitar
Rashawn Ross - Trumpet, Vocals

Roger Smith - Hammond Organ

Youth Ch-Op Choir - Vocals Background

Steve Lillywhite - Mixing, Producer
John Alagia - Engineer, Producer
Justin Armstrong - Engineer
Floyd Reitsma - Engineer, Mixing
Steven Aguilar - Assistant Engineer
Michael H. Brauer - Mixing
Ryan Gilligan - Mixing Assistant, Pro-Tools
Ted Jensen - Mastering
Lars Fox - Pro-Tools
Nick Davidge - Package Design
Naomi Duckworth - Package Design
Danny Clinch - Photography
Ian Kuhn - Coloring, Digital Layout
Aaron Borns - Product Manager
Coran Capshaw - Management
Patrick Jordan - Product Manager
Sharon Lord - Product Manager
Lindsay Brown - Project Coordinator
Matt Long - Project Coordinator
Ann Kingston - Project Coordinator
Kara Gilfoil - Production Assistant
Bill Greer - Production Assistant
Zarah Hitner - Studio Assistant
Laura Samsel - Studio Assistant
Craig Baker - Guitar Technician
Henry Luniewski - Drum Technician
Erik Porter - Bass Technician
Bruce Flohr - A&R
Joe Lawlor - Videography

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


The musicians of Dave Matthews Band have always been exuded talent, but somewhere along the line, the band became a punchline for snarky pundits everywhere. After 20-plus years spent producing seven studio albums, countless live discs, and touring extensively, how did DMB become a band scorned, the love of which is readily attributed to frat boys and hippies?

In the interest of full disclosure, I must confess that DMB was my favorite band in high school. My heart was stolen by 1996’s Crash, and I’ve never fully recovered. But even a long-time fan like myself had trouble with the overbearing grandeur and multi-guitar melodies that gradually began to clutter up the band’s sound, reaching a climax with 2009’s Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King. Add the untimely loss in 2008 of founding member LeRoi Moore, and this former acolyte, like many others, had drifted. Even 2011’s hugely successful Dave Matthews Band Caravan — curated by Matthews and featuring bands ranging from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros to Sharon Jones — wasn’t enough to restore the band’s rep. To wit, I got to see Flaming Lips play The Dark Side of the Moon — and people still mocked me for attending.

It is with joyous heart and grateful spirit, then, that ardent DMB fans will receive Away From The World. And those of you who snicker at that statement? You’re missing out on some of the best musicians of our time. Here is the sound that the nineties fell in love with, grown and pruned into a mélange of subtle guitar work and stunning interplay from an ever-increasing number of musicians that manage to sound like an intimate few.

One factor in the return to a simpler sound is the band’s reunion with producer Steve Lillywhite, who was responsible for the band’s first three (and critically-commercially beloved) albums. Despite having more players in studio than ever, DMB manages to sound stripped down — and more like itself than it has in a long time. That DMB sound is exemplified on opener “Broken Things”, which also features some of the fattest saxes you’ll find here. The band’s decision to leave Moore’s signature solo lines out of future compositions means that new saxman Jeff Coffin’s role is more about shading than illuminating. In addition to Coffin and the remaining four original members, DMB has also officially added Tim Reynolds on guitar and Rashawn Ross on trumpet. But in Lillywhite’s hands, the sound remains uncrowded, Matthews’ vocals brought to the center. “Oh my love/ my heart is set on you,” he croons, trailing off into a soaring violin solo from Boyd Tinsley, and all of a sudden it’s 1996 again.

The album is not without its flaws. Tracks like “Belly Belly Nice” and single “Mercy” do nothing to stand out from the wide selection of just-fine tracks that DMB has produced by the dozen. A more worldly-than-thou vibe is present on “Gaucho”, with trite lyrics like, “Gotta do much more than believe/ if we wanna see the world change.” Though presumably well intended, it comes across as just another celebrity PSA.

But it’s a pair of acoustic stunners, “Sweet” and “Belly Full”, that display the band at their finest, with Matthews’ voice skimming over barely ornamented guitar. “You know the feeling when you’re in too deep/ you know you make it out/ the taste so sweet,” he sings on the former, while the latter moons about “all my dreams and all the world/ just for you my love.” Both harken back to Matthews’ days as one of the suavest panty-droppers to caress a microphone (particularly “Crash Into Me”, where the lines “Hike up your skirt a little more/ and show your world to me” ride the extremely thin line between sexy and creepy). “Sweet”, in particular, stops the heart, Matthews’ voice sustaining a delicate, seemingly impossible apex. By pulling away all the layers of guitar and production, Dave Matthews Band has unearthed a simple truth: these are genuine craftsmen.

The instrumentation throughout is flawless, with careful guitar, exacting percussion, and funky violin swirls all blending into that signature Dave Matthews Band sound. Frankly speaking, the skill evinced here is undeniable. That said, haters gonna hate, but music lovers of all stripes should find plenty to love on Away From The World -- providing they drop the pretense and give it a chance.

Megan Ritt - September 14, 2012
Consequence of Sound



Getting back to the basics after a semi-extended break, Dave Matthews Band reunites with producer Steve Lillywhite - the man who helmed their big major-label hits of the '90s - for Away from the World, 2012's long-gestating sequel to 2009's Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King. This marks the first time Lillywhite has worked with DMB since 1998's Before These Crowded Streets, and there's no denying he's the best producer for the band, articulating their elasticity with clarity and reigning in their excesses. Which isn't to say Away from the World is streamlined, as it hardly is. It has frayed ends and odd shifts, moments of great exuberance countered with quivering sensitivity, tightly written pop songs giving way to mini-epics, love songs balanced with ribald paeans to dripping peaches and full bellies. It's a little of everything that the Dave Matthews Band does, condensed to a relatively tight 53 minutes, Lillywhite giving the inherent digressions crispness and warmth, just like he did on Under the Table and Dreaming and Crash, but for as much as this recalls the sound of prime '90s DMB, Away from the World is clearly the work of a veteran band, one not so concerned with hits, one that likes to live within the well-etched world they've created. Sure, a few of these songs could conceivably cross over beyond the DMB diehards - "If Only" is underpinned by some seductive soul groove, "Rooftop" carries a big pop hook, while the sex romp "Belly Belly Nice" evokes memories of "Ants Marching" - but there is no real attempt to broaden their audience, nor is there the self-conscious stretching that marked some of Matthews' 2000s albums. Matthews is quite content where he is, writing songs about his family, wife, the world, and life as he approaches middle age, happy to consolidate DMB's strengths without quite seeming settled. Consequently, Away from the World is a bit of a rare thing: a return to form lacking an ounce of nostalgia.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Away from the World is the eighth studio album by Dave Matthews Band (DMB), released on September 11, 2012. The album is their first since 2009's Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King. The album's title comes from a line in the song "The Riff": "Sitting in a box / away from the world out there." According to Matthews, it relates to the dour idea that we are born and die alone and that "our body is our box."

Steve Lillywhite produced Away from the World, which marks his first released studio album with the band since 1998's Before These Crowded Streets. A series of failed sessions with Lillywhite led to the leaked Lillywhite Sessions in 2000 and Lillywhite's departure from the band's work.

DMB and Lillywhite recorded the album in a Seattle studio beginning in early January 2012, and production on the album finished in May. In addition to the 11 songs that made the album, one other song was attempted during the sessions, but the band did not complete that song. Violinist Boyd Tinsley said of the process: "Some of the songs that you hear on this album, the basic tracks came out, like, the first or second time we played them. Dave would come in with part of a song. We’d get into the control room and we’d finish it, putting in a chorus or bridge here and working out arrangements. And then we went to the studio, and we just played."

Roger Smith from Tower of Power plays Hammond Organ on "a couple of tunes" on the album.

Dave Matthews debuted the lead single "Mercy" on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on April 24, and DMB released the studio version in July. The band also released the studio version of "Gaucho" in May. Those songs, in addition to "Sweet," "If Only," "The Riff," "Rooftop," "Snow Outside," and "Belly Belly Nice," were all performed during DMB's 2012 summer tour.

As part of the promotion in the week leading up to the release of Away From The World, iTunes streamed the entire album for free beginning on Tuesday, September 4, 2012, at around 2pm EST.

The album debuted at #1 on Billboard 200 with album sales of 266,000 for the week. This was the 3rd lowest debut sales of an album since Crash but the band's sixth straight No. 1-debuting studio album. As of December 6, 2012, the album has sold 458,000 copies.

The album was listed at #29 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 albums of 2012, saying "The album's political entreaties made for some of 2012's best GOTV rock."

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 L y r i c s


BROKEN THINGS

Sometimes the road is crystal
And sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind
Tell me what it is what you think you're missing
And I will see what I can find

You want to be so sure of
Every step you take
You cant always know what's coming
You cant always trust the twist of fate

Oh my love my heart is set on you, set on you
Oh my love my heart is set on you, set on you

Stars shine down from the black
And we're picking though this broken glass
Well how could we know that our lives
Would be so full of beautifully broken things

Oh my love my heart is set on you, set on you
Oh my love my heart is set on you, set on you

War is the most vulgar madness
And winters can be so cruel
You can't always change the way things are
Like I can't change the way I think of you

Oh my love my heart is set on you, set on you
Oh my love my heart is set on you, set on you
Oh my, love my, love my love
Oh my love my heart is set on you, set on you


BELLY BELLY NICE

Think about what you want
Think about what you got
And all the things that'll heal or hurt you
'Cause when that big barn's full of peaches
It don't matter what the preacher preaches
The days are warm and the well is full of virtue

Jack and jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
Because he was messing with the preachers daughter

Open up your wings
Make a dead man sing
Such a good good thing
Just can't be wrong no no no

You can't get too much love
Don't you feel it in your belly go get you some
You can't get too much love
The time is right for loving so come on come on

Can you feel it in your belly come on

Mamma's in the kitchen
Daddy's in the field
And baby girl is going to town
Because she likes the way it make her feel
Swimming in the river
Rolling in the mud
When the juice is dripping off your chin
One peach is not enough

You can't get too much love
So if you feel it in your belly come on come on
You can't get too much love
The time is right for loving come and get you some
You can't get too much love
Oh give it up, give it up, give it up

Oh the light that shines upon
The gift that everyone has for the taking
And happiness so pure as this
Is surely worth the making

Jack and jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
Because he was messing with the preachers daughter

Love love love love love love love
Love love love love love love love

You can't get too much love
So if you feel it in your belly come and get you some
You can't get too much love
The time is right for loving say come on come on
You can't get too much love
Gonna eat you're belly jelly till the kingdom comes
You can't get too much love
So give it up, give it up, give it up, give it up


MERCY

Don't give up
I know you can see
All the world and the mess that we're making
Can't give up
And hope God will intercede
Come on back
Imagine that we could get it together
Stand up for what we need to be
‘Cause crime won’t save or feed a hungry child
Can't lay down and wait for a miracle to change things
So lift up your eyes
Lift up your heart

Singing mercy will we overcome this
Oh one by one could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I'll try to give you what you need

Me and you and you and you
Just wanna be free yeah
But you see all the world is just as we've made it
And until we got a new world
I've got to say that love is not a whisper or a weakness

No love is strong
So we got to get together yeah
Gotta get gotta get gotta get
Til there is no reason
To fight

Mercy will we overcome this
Yeah one by one could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I'll try to give you what you need

Mercy will we overcome this
Have we come too far to turn it around
Ask too much to be a little bit stronger
Cause I wanna give you what you need

Mercy what will become of us
Oh one by one could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I'll try to give you what you need


GAUCHO

With fire to keep us warm
and tools we made from rocks and bones
A roof over your head
and walls to keep you safe in bed
There must be more than this
So God was born
and we in his image of fear and love
looked down upon from up above

We gotta do much more than believe
if we really wanna change things
We gotta do much more than believe
if we wanna see the world change

We crossed the oceans wide
built cities to the sky oh Lord
Looked up and we were flying
but will we not survive ourselves

We gotta do much more than believe
if we wanna see the world change
We gotta do much more than believe
if we really wanna change things
We gotta do much more than believe
go on try it, go on try it
We gotta do much more than believe
if we wanna see the world change

What will I say to my baby
Let me show you a movie
we landed a man on the moon
Now you could never believe it
ya we could do anything
We flew to the stars and back
down to the ground hard

Please wake up
Please wake up
Please wake up

[Children singing]
We gotta do much more than believe
if we really wanna change things
We gotta do much more than believe
if we really wanna change things
We gotta do much more than believe
if we really wanna change things
We gotta do much more than believe
if we really wanna change things
We gotta do much more than believe
if we really wanna change things

[Children and Dave singing]
We gotta do much more than believe
go on try it, go on try it
We gotta do much more than believe
if we really wanna change things
We gotta do much more than believe
go on try it, go on try it
We gotta do much more than believe
if we wanna see the world change

Oh my little baby
let me show you this movie
You know we landed a man on the moon
I know it's hard to imagine
but we could do anything
under the stars.

SWEET
Try to swim, keep your head up
Kick your legs never give up, boy
If I could I'd turn it around
Let me out I wanna get out now
You know the feeling when you're in too deep
And then you make it out the taste so sweet
Sweet
Sweet

I'm too high I wanna come down
And I'm too old to want to be younger now
But if I could I'd turn it around
Let me out I want to get out now

You know the feeling when you're in too deep
And then you make it out the taste so sweet
Sweet
Sweet

Cover me, cover me, cover me
Till I'm gone
Cover me, cover me, cover me
Till I'm gone
Cover me, cover me, cover me
Till I'm gone
Gone

And if I could I'd turn it around yeah
You know the feeling when you're in too deep
And then you make it out it tastes so sweet


THE RIFF

Funny how time slips away
looking at the cracks creeping across my face
I remember the little kid living in here
he'll be living here probably until I'm dead.

Please don't leave me, baby
please don't leave me yet.

Sitting in a box away from the world out there
a world piled high with boxes just like this
but please don't ever leave me alone in here
take me out, shake off the dust, shake off the fear.

Please don't leave me, baby
please don't leave me yet.

If you stay with me
that don't mean we gotta stay the same
if you stay with me
well baby, you and me we'll change the game

Well I don't know the man that's livin' in my head
'til you reach down and bring the light back in
no, I don't know the man that's living in my head
if I don't know the woman sleeping in my bed.

Remember how we used to kiss, baby
kiss like it was everything?
Remember how we used to love, baby
love like it was everything?

You stay with me
that don't mean we have to stay the same
if you stay with me
well baby, you and me we'll change the game
you stay with me
I'll follow you and we can start again, baby.

I only got a minute or two to spare
and I gotta whole damn life to fit in there
so why waste time staring at the T.V. set?
like I got dreams to kill and people to forget.

Remember how we used to dance, baby
just like it was everything?

You stay with me
and that don't mean we have to stay the same
you stay with me
baby, you and me can make the change
you stay with me
but that don't mean I wanna stay the same.

You stay with me
well baby, you and me we'll change the game.


BELLY FULL

Oh my love
If I had my way then all your dreams
Would come true
Oh my love
All your dreams and all the world
Just for you
Oh my love
If I had my way
This for you

Spread yourself across my lips
And I spoon you in
The sweetest thing in all the world
Oh I want more
There is no place I'd rather be than here with you
Under the sun, the pouring rain, all the sky for you

Oh my love
If I had my way
This for you
Oh my love
Make your belly full
And all your dreams to come true


IF ONLY

Oh yeah
Some days it's so easy
Sometimes I forget how
Much I want you back again
Back again

Well maybe it's a game
You win some and you lose some
But when you've found a good one
Don't you let her get away
Don't let her go

Oh yeah
If only I could have you
Just the way I want you
Oh, to have you back again
Back again baby

Oh, I'm just a fool baby
Playing Mr. Cool baby
Rolling round like I got nothing much to lose
But I know you and you know me
And I know you can see
So help me find my way back to you
Back to you

Walking past your window
You used to smile and throw
Your sweet kisses back to me
Back to me

Oh yeah
Remember when I asked you
If you'd be my one true
It seems like yesterday
Just like yesterday

Oh yeah, and I'm just a fool baby
Playing Mr. Cool baby
Rolling round like I got nothing much to lose
But I know you and you know me
And I know you can see
So help me get my way back to you
Back to you

I want you so take me back please
Take me back my baby

If only I could have you
Just the way I want you
Yeah

I'm just a fool baby
Playing Mr. Cool baby
Rolling round like I got nothing much to lose babe
But I know you and you know me
And I know you can see
So help me get my way back to you

I want you so take me back please
Take me back my baby

If only I could have you
Just the way I want to
Just the way I was
Yeah


ROOFTOP

Standing on the rooftop
There's all these people watching
Hard to find the words
When you got so far to fall
Just trying to keep a secret
And never tell a soul no no
Take another drink so
I can loose control

I
I want you to
tell me that you want me, just want me too
I
I want you to
Tell me that you want me, just want me

If I was a winner
I'd cut the cards and deal them
Buy a great big house where
We could disappear
But you find yourself a sweet spot
And people want to get some
You're just anther dead man
Trying to fool the world

I
I want you to
tell me that you want me, want me too
I
I want you to
Tell me that you want me, want me too

I gave you the best of me
And you said goodbye
Should have taken the rest of me
See the morning come up come up
If you're going out tonight
Maybe I'll catch you right
Maybe we'll loose our minds tonight
And fall until we fly

I
I want you
tell me that you want me,want me too
I
I want you to just
Tell me that you want me, want me too

I
I want you
tell me that you want me,want me too
I
I want you to just
Tell me that you want me, want me


SNOW OUTSIDE

You are like a secret garden
as I shuffle through this broken town
think of you and you are all around me
like the sky when the sun's going down
I want to tell the whole wide world
and see how love can light your soul
but you are like my secret garden
and I want to be with you alone

Oh, Hold tight
cuz the road can be a crazy ride
And I know we're going to be alright
Cuz you are here with me
Oh, woman is so right
And even if the oceans divide us
I will be here right by your side
For the rest of our days
Here for the rest of our days

If you are tired I'll bear your burden
If you are dreaming I will not disturb you
Whatever your heart desires love love
I'll clear the way for you
Come winter I will build you a fire
From the bones of who I used to be
Before you came and washed the weary away
Before you came here for me
So right every day and every night
By the fire with the snow outside
And the two of us
Oh child hold tight
If it gets to be a crazy ride
I'll be here right by your side
For the rest of our days
Oh, for the rest of our days

So right
Holding on to this crazy ride
Hold on we'll be alright
Me and you and you and me
Here you come you bring me real love
From the ground beneath to the stars above
I was growing down now I'm growing up
With you in my blood
Yeah this is real love
Shining down like the stars above
Arms out and I am growing up
With you in my blood
Oh you know that its alright
Feels bigger than the whole world wide
You know come the morning light
Oh I know that I am yours
That I am yours
That I am yours


DRUNKEN SOLDIER

Keep your head up
Try and listen to your heart
Be kind always, no matter
We all grow up
And someday well say goodbye
So shine your light while you got one

Make the most of what you've got
Don't waste time being trying to be something you're not
Fill up your head and fill up you heart and take your shot
Don't waste time trying to be something you're not

Once round just once so take your shot
Don't waste time trying to be something you're not
Fill up your head and fill up your heart cause that all we got
Don't waste time trying to be something you're not

Through your window
That's one way to see the world
Step outside and look back into
Look and listen
And you decide what to believe
Shine your light while you got one

And make the most of what you got
Don't waste time trying to be something you're not
Fill up your head and fill up your heart and take your shot
Don't waste time trying to be someone you're not

That's not a star that's a satellite
Step it out
Step it out

That's not a star that's a satellite

That's not a star that's a satellite

That's not a star that's a satellite

 M P 3   S a m p l e s


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