Audio Cassette review:
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets

Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets

Band: Dave Matthews Band Title: Before These Crowded Streets Rating: Release Date: 28 April, 1998 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Pantala Naga Pampa 2: Rapunzel 3: Last Stop 4: Don't Drink the Water 5: Stay (Wasting Time) 6: Halloween 7: Stone 8: Crush 9: Dreaming Tree 10: Pig 11: Spoon

Editoral Review While the album offers more of the folkish melodies and vaguely internationalist rhythms that made this Charlottesville, Virginia, group a major record and concert draw, it also finds them adding new colorings to the mix. The Dave Matthews Band moves its music forward by increments on Before These Crowded Streets. Alanis Morissette guests on two cuts, "Spoon" and the disc's first single, "Don't Drink the Water," and banjo whiz Bela Fleck sits in, too. More interesting, though, is the modernist string arrangement played by the Kronos Quartet on the driving "Halloween. " Matthews's obvious hopes to lead something other than a jam band are at least partly fulfilled here; at the same time, Streets should keep his customers satisfied. --Rickey Wright .. You can see a complete list of all Dave Matthews Band discography, or go back to the Dave Matthews Band tabs