CD Review
Dave Matthews Band

By Hemi Ahluwalia

The Dave Matthews Band is releasing its fourth album Tuesday. “Everyday” is the first studio album the band has released since “Before These Crowded Streets” in May 1998.

“Everyday” features 12 new songs from the band and was recorded in Los Angeles this fall after it completed its Summer Tour 2000.

“Everyday” also marks the first time the band has worked with producer Glenn Ballard, who, besides producing, also helped co-write all of the songs along with lead singer Dave Matthews. Rolling Stone magazine called this combination of talent “a revolutionary act.”

The band also joins forces with Carlos Santana to put together the song “Mother Father.” This is the second time Dave Matthews, as a songwriter, has written and performed with Santana. Their first collaboration was on Santana’s album “Supernatural.”

“Everyday” has received praise from many critics, but the album offers very little “jamming” among the band members, which is present in many of the band’s live albums.

However, with the release of this album, the band will be assured legendary status before they have even laid down their instruments.

To promote the new album, the band has been on a promotional tour since Feb. 15, when the video for the first single “I Did It,” ran on MTV and VH1. The band ends the tour with a performance on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.

The band will begin its first leg of Summer Tour 2001 in April when it opens in Charlottesville, Va., Matthews’ home town. The tour will end the first leg in July at Texas Stadium.

The Dave Matthews Band consists of Matthews, as the lead singer, drummer Carter Beauford, violinist Boyd Tinsley, bassist Stefan Lessard and multireed man Leroi Moore.

Other song titles on “Everyday” include “What you are,” “The Space Between,” “When the World Ends,” “So Right,” “Dreams of our Fathers,” “”Everyday,” “If I Had It All,” “Sleep to Dream Her,” “Angel” and “Fool to Think.”