Dave Matthews Band tours have taken place since 1991, when the band debuted as a small rock band in Charlottesville, Virginia. Since then, Dave Matthews Band has become internationally known, performing sold out shows at stadiums and large venues throughout the world. In addition to playing in the United States, the band has also performed in such countries as Canada, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and France. The band has held an extensive summer tour every year since 1992, frequently featuring guests to join them on stage and jam out their songs. Some of the bands most popular guests include Tim Reynolds, and Béla Fleck. After performing on two tracks on Before These Crowded Streets, keyboardist Butch Taylor made his live debut with the band on June 6, 1998. He was featured as a guest during many shows between 1998 and 2000. Beginning in 2001 he became a "permanent" guest of the band, and performed almost every song at every show until his departure in 2008.
In addition to the annual summer tours, the band has also held tours during the spring, fall, and early winter seasons. Late winter months (January - March) are often reserved for acoustic shows by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds , or solo acoustic shows featuring Matthews himself.
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Dave Matthews Band is often referred to as a "live band" because the live performances usually differ from those heard on their albums. Many songs are jammed out live, anywhere from 5-10 minutes longer than the studio version, however sometimes even longer. Currently, the band's longest live version of any song is a performance of "#41" which was played for over 32 minutes featuring Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, whereas the album version clocks in at just under seven minutes. Dave Matthews Band's performances usually last between 2 to 3 hours. Their longest shows to date are as follows:
Times count the songs' running lengths, not the amount of time the band was on stage.
All tours took place in North America unless otherwise noted.
(Live at Radio City was recorded from a show with Dave and Tim in April 2007.)
(Live in Las Vegas was recorded from a show with Dave and Tim in December 2009.)
This is a list of the longest versions of songs played live by the Dave Matthews Band from 1992 up to the present day. The dates, track times, and personnel for these performances are based on the archives at the Dave Matthews Band almanac website.
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#27 |
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Tim Reynolds, Rashawn Ross |
#34 |
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#36 |
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Doug Wanamaker, Mike Durham, & Oteil Burbridge |
#40 |
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#41 |
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Butch Taylor& Béla Fleck and the Flecktones |
41 Police |
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A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum cover) |
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Dave & Tim |
All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) |
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David Ryan Harris |
Alligator Pie |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss cover) |
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American Baby |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
American Baby Intro |
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Angel |
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Butch Taylor, The Lovely Ladies |
Angel From Montgomery (John Prine cover) |
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Ants Marching |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Any Noise/Anti Noise |
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Greg Howard |
Anyone Seen the Bridge? |
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Mike Doughty |
Baby Blue |
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Dave Solo |
Bartender |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
Beach Ball |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
The Best of What's Around |
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Big Eyed Fish |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
Bitch (Rolling Stones cover) |
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Tim Reynolds & Rashawn Ross |
Blackbird (The Beatles cover) |
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Butch Taylor |
Black Jack |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Blue Water |
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Break For It |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Break Free |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
Burning Down the House (Talking Heads cover) |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Busted Stuff |
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Butch Taylor |
Butterfly |
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Dave Matthews & Friends |
Can't Stop |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Captain |
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Butch Taylor |
Christmas Song |
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Dave and Tim |
Corn Bread |
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Tim Reynolds, Rashawn Ross, Jeff Coffin & Danny Barnes |
Cortez the Killer (Neil Young cover) |
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Butch Taylor & Warren Haynes |
Crash into Me |
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Crazy |
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Dave and Tim |
Crazy-Easy |
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Butch Taylor |
Crush |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Cry Freedom |
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Butch Taylor |
Dancing Nancies |
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Tim Reynolds |
Deed Is Done |
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Tim Reynolds |
Digging a Ditch |
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Butch Taylor |
Dive In |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Doobie Thing |
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Don't Burn the Pig |
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Don't Drink the Water |
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Butch Taylor |
A Dream So Real |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
Dreamed I Killed God |
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Dave and Tim |
Dreamgirl |
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Butch Taylor & Eric Krasno |
The Dreaming Tree |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
Drive In, Drive Out |
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Tim Reynolds |
Eh Hee |
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Butch Taylor, Rashawn Ross, Captain Kirk, Matt Cappy, Black Thought, Lamont Caldwell & Damon Bryson |
Everybody Wake Up |
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Butch Taylor |
Everyday |
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Butch Taylor |
Exodus (Bob Marley cover) |
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David CasT, Ivan Neville, Rashawn Ross & Robert Randolph |
Fool to Think |
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Dave and Tim |
For the Beauty of Wynona (Daniel Lanois cover) |
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Greg Howard & Tim Reynolds |
Funny How Time Slips Away (Willie Nelson cover) |
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Dave,Carter,Tim Reynolds & Zac Brown |
Funny The Way It Is |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Get in Line |
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Good Good Time |
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Butch Taylor |
Good Times Bad Times (Led Zeppelin cover) |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Grace Is Gone |
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Butch Taylor |
Granny |
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Gravedigger |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Grey Street |
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Butch Taylor |
Halloween |
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Kristen Ashbury |
Heartbeat Intro |
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Butch Taylor |
Heathcliff's Haiku Warriors |
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Dave solo |
Hello Again |
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Butch Taylor & Leon Mobley |
Help Myself |
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Richmond Symphony Orchestra |
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) (Neil Young cover) |
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Tim Reynolds |
Hold Me Down |
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Dave solo |
Hunger for the Great Light |
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Butch Taylor |
I Did It |
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Dave solo |
The Idea of You |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
If I Had A Boat (Lyle Lovett cover) |
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Dave and Tim |
If I Had It All |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
I'll Back You Up |
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Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago (Soul Coughing cover) |
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Dave and Tim |
Jimi Thing |
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Butch Taylor & Béla Fleck and the Flecktones |
John the Revelator |
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Béla Fleck, Butch Taylor, Benny Rietfield, Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson, Karl Perazzo & The Lovely Ladies |
Joy Ride |
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Butch Taylor |
JTR |
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Butch Taylor & The Lovely Ladies |
Kill the King |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
Kit Kat Jam |
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Butch Taylor |
The Last Stop |
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Butch Taylor & Béla Fleck |
Leave Me Praying |
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Let You Down |
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Dave and Tim |
Lie in Our Graves |
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Butch Taylor & Béla Fleck |
Linus and Lucy (Vince Guaraldi cover) |
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Butch Taylor |
Little Red Bird |
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Dave Solo |
Little Thing |
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Dave and Tim |
Long Black Veil (Lefty Frizzell cover) |
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Butch Taylor & The Lovely Ladies |
Louisiana Bayou |
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Butch Taylor, Rashawn Ross & Robert Randolph |
Love of My Life |
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Butch Taylor, Béla Fleck, Benny Rietfield, Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson & Karl Perazzo |
Lover Lay Down |
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Butch Taylor |
Loving Wings |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Lying In The Hands of God |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
The Maker (Daniel Lanois cover) |
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Butch Taylor, Tim Reynolds, Mitch Rutman & Victor Wooten |
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Paul Simon cover) |
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Miguel Valdez |
Minarets |
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Money (Pink Floyd cover) |
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Tim Reynolds & Rashawn Ross |
Money (That's What I Want) (Barrett Strong cover) |
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Tim Reynolds & Rashawn Ross |
Mother Father |
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Butch Taylor & The Lovely Ladies |
Old Dirt Hill (Bring That Beat Back) |
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Butch Taylor |
One Sweet World |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Out of My Hands |
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Dave, Carter, Stefan & Tim |
Pantala Naga Pampa |
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Butch Taylor |
Pay for What You Get |
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People People |
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Pig |
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Butch Taylor, Béla Fleck & Big Voice Jack |
Proudest Monkey |
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Rain Intro |
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Rapunzel |
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Butch Taylor & Tim Reynolds |
Raven |
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Butch Taylor |
Recently |
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Warren Haynes |
Redemption Song (Bob Marley cover) |
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Rhyme & Reason |
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Rye Whiskey (Tex Ritter cover) |
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Dave & Boyd only |
Satellite |
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Butch Taylor, Rashawn Ross & Tom Morello |
Say Goodbye |
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Bill Summers |
Seek Up |
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Butch Taylor |
Seven |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Shake Me Like a Monkey |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Shotgun |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
Sister |
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Dave solo |
Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel cover) |
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Tim Reynolds, Rashawn Ross & Jeff Coffin |
Sleep to Dream Her |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
Smooth Rider |
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Butch Taylor, Rashawn Ross & Robert Randolph |
So Damn Lucky |
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Tim Reynolds, Rashawn Ross & Jeff Coffin |
So Much to Say |
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So Right |
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Butch Taylor |
Some Devil |
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Dave solo |
The Song That Jane Likes |
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The Space Between |
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Butch Taylor |
Spaceman |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Spoon |
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Béla Fleck & Tim Reynolds |
Spotlight |
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Squirm |
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Tim Reynolds, Rashawn Ross & Jeff Coffin |
Stand Up (For It) |
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Butch Taylor, Rashawn Ross & Robert Randolph |
Stay (Wasting Time) |
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Tim Reynolds, Rashawn Ross, Jeff Coffin, Greg Thomas, Jamelle Williams & Terrance Taplin |
Stay or Leave |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Steady As We Go |
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Butch Taylor |
Still Water (Daniel Lanois cover) |
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Butch Taylor |
Stir It Up (Bob Marley cover) |
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Stolen Away On 55th & 3rd |
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Tim Reynolds, Rashawn Ross & Jeff Coffin |
The Stone |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Sugar Will |
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Butch Taylor |
Sweet |
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Dave Solo |
Sweet Up and Down |
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Butch Taylor |
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Sly & the Family Stone cover) |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin, Rashawn Ross & Robert Randolph |
Time Bomb |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Time of the Season (The Zombies cover) |
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Butch Taylor |
Too Much |
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Toy Soldiers |
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Tripping Billies |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
True Reflections |
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Doug Wanamaker, Mike Durham & Oteil Burbridge |
Two Step |
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Butch Taylor & Béla Fleck and the Flecktones |
Typical Situation |
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Béla Fleck |
Warehouse |
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Butch Taylor & Rashawn Ross |
Waste (Phish cover) |
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Dave solo |
Water Into Wine |
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Tim Reynolds & Rashawn Ross |
What Will Become of Me? |
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What Would You Say |
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What You Are |
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Butch Taylor |
When the World Ends |
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Butch Taylor |
Where Are You Going |
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Butch Taylor |
Why I Am |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
Write a Song |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
You & Me |
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Tim Reynolds, Jeff Coffin & Rashawn Ross |
You Might Die Trying |
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Butch Taylor, Rashawn Ross & Eric Krasno |
You Never Know |
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