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Dave Matthews Band

Just as the hippies had their Grateful Dead and the punks had their Anti-Nowhere League and GBH, so do baseball-capped fraternity boys have the Dave Matthews Band. Matthews himself was raised in South Africa and moved to New York and then Charlottesville, Virginia to start what has been one of the '90s most successful bands.

Primarily a live act that worked up an enormous following without the aid of a major record company, DMB released their first album, Remember Two Things, on their own Bama Rags label. Eight of the 10 tracks were recorded live, and the band spent a bit of their time jamming, showcasing the rather unusual lineup of Leroi Moore's saxophone and Boyd Tinsley's violin on top of the standard jazz-inflected rhythm section. Steve Lillywhite came...
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