Dave Matthews Band To Revisit 2025 Gorge Run With New Live Album & Broadcasts

Dave Matthews Band announced details of Take Me Back Live From The Gorge, a new live album featuring the full Saturday, August 30 show from their 2025 Labor Day Weekend run at the idyllic Washington state venue. The concert saw the septet perform their 1998 record Before These Crowded Streets from start to finish, in sequence, for the first time.

Take Me Back Live From The Gorge will be issued via ATO Records digitally on February 6, with physical formats to follow on May 22. In celebration of the release, all three 2025 DMB shows at The Gorge will air for the first time on VOLTA. Night one (August 29, 2025) premieres on Friday, February 13; night two (August 30, 2025) premieres on Saturday, February 14 and night three (August 31, 2025) premieres on Sunday, February 15.

Those who buy the video broadcasts can view the Director’s Cut or call the shots with the platform’s multiview feature. Purchases include on-demand replays for the remainder of February.

Dave Matthews Band kept fans on their toes from the start of the instant classic August 30, 2025 concert by opening with a full band “All Along The Watchtower” for the first time since June 21, 1993. “You Never Know,” “Cornbread” featuring guest guitarist Joe Lawlor, “It Could Happen” and a wild “#41” performed with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones prefaced the Before These Crowded Streets portion of the festivities.

The Flecktones were on hand as support for Dave Matthews Band. Fleck reprised his appearance on the 1998 album by joining DMB for “The Last Stop” and “Don’t Drink The Water.” Fiddler Jake Simpson, who sat in for portions of all three shows, emerged for the versions of “Pig” and “Spoon” that brought the Before These Crowded Streets section to a close. Fleck also added to “Spoon” and stuck around to augment DMB and Simpson on “Satellite” before leaving Jake as the lone guest on “Tripping Billies.” Matthews came back to begin the encore with a solo cover of “Rye Whiskey” and then his bandmates returned for the “What Would You Say” finale.

Dave Matthews Band will wrap their newly announced 2026 Spring & Summer Tour with their usual Labor Day Weekend visit to The Gorge. Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, February 20 at 10 a.m. local venue time.

Saturday, August 30 Setlist (via DMB Almanac)

Set: All Along the Watchtower » Stairway to Heaven [partial] » All Along the Watchtower [reprise], You Never Know, Corn Bread^, It Could Happen, #41^^, Pantala Naga Pampa » Rapunzel, The Last Stop^^^, Don’t Drink the Water^^^, Stay (Wasting Time), Halloween, The Stone, Crush, The Dreaming Tree, Pig*, Spoon**, Satellite**, Tripping Billies*

Encore: Rye Whiskey, What Would You Say

• ^ – w/ Joe Lawlor
• ^^ – w/ Béla Fleck, Futureman, Howard Levy & Victor Wooten
• ^^^ – w/ Béla Fleck
• * – w/ Jake Simpson
• ** – w/ Béla Fleck & Jake Simpson

Note: All 11 tracks from Before These Crowded Streets were performed in order. The only previous time the band has played an entire studio album at a show was 11.30.12, which featured all of Away From the World, albeit with other songs interspersed and with the songs slightly out of album order.