Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds Welcome Guests at Jazz Fest

Yesterday Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds brought their current tour to the Big Easy for a headlining performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The duo used their hour and a half slot on the Acura Stage to treat fans to DMB classics, while also welcoming a pair of familiar guests to join them.

Matthews and Reynolds’ streamlined festival set saw the the pair work through a number of old-school crowd-pleasers including “Satellite,” “Jimi Thing,” “Two Step” and “Lie In Our Graves,” before inviting out their first guest of the night Jimmy Buffett. The trio teamed up on “A Pirate Looks At Forty,” a tune from Buffet’s 1974 album A1A. The performance marked the first time that Matthews had sung “A Pirate Looks At Forty” since 2008, when he guested on it on back-to-back nights with Jack Johnson.

Shortly after Buffett left the stage, the duo was joined by Dave Matthews Band trumpet player Rashawn Ross to close out their set. Matthews, Reynolds and Ross worked their way through “Corn Bread,” “Grey Street” and the tour debut of “Ants Marching,” before returning to the stage for a show-closing rendition of “What Would You Say.”

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds continue their tour tonight with the first of two shows at the Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville.

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[A Pirate Looks at Forty | Captured by Alex Hawkins]