Dave Matthews Band To Release Very First Live Multitrack Recording

The Dave Matthews Band plucked a show so old for the next installment of the group’s Live Trax series of archival releases that comprehensive fan sites only had a partial setlist. Live Trax Vol. 37 features the oldest live multitrack recording in the DMB vault – November 11, 1992.

For decades DMB’s November 11, 1992 show was thought to have taken place at The Flood Zone in Richmond, where the group usually performed on Wednesday nights. With today’s announcement we have confirmation the 11/11/92 performance went down at Trax in DMB’s hometown of Charlottesville. Dave Matthews Band played at Trax a total of 147 times according to DMB Almanac including nearly every Tuesday in the early 1990s. For some reason that week in November, Matthews and his mates played the Coran Capshaw-owned venue on Wednesday and famed producer/engineer John Alagia was on hand to record the show in all its multitrack glory.

We get to hear an early version of the band on the new Live Trax as keyboardist/harmonica wiz Peter Griesar was still on board and Boyd Tinsley had recently become a full-time member. Just about a year and a half after the first DMB show, which also took place at Trax, the group shows off originals that were new at the time but are now beloved classics such as “The Best Of What’s Around,” “Dancing Nancies,” “Two Step,” “What Would You Say,” “Ants Marching” and “Jimi Thing.” There’s also a rare take on “Spotlight” which was retired just a year later and the evening’s lone cover is a take on John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery.”

Live Trax Vol. 37 is available for pre-order via via the band’s online store and will be released on April 8. Pre-orders will ship on or around April 5.

Dave Matthews Band Live Trax Vol. 37 Tracklist

Disc One

1. The Song That Jane Likes
2. The Best of What’s Around
3. Help Myself
4. Dancing Nancies
5. Lover Lay Down
6. True Reflections
7. Minarets
8. So Much To Say

Disc Two

1. Recently
2. Angel From Montgomery
3. Two Step
4. Halloween
5. Pay For What You Get
6. Lie In Our Graves
7. Spotlight

Disc Three

1. One Sweet World
2. Satellite
3. Ants Marching
4. Jimi Thing
5. What Would You Say
6. Tripping Billies
7. Warehouse