Some Devil by Dave Matthews (CD, Sep-2003, RCA)

Album Features
UPC:	828765619820
Artist:	Dave Matthews
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2003
Record Label:	RCA
Genre:	Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Dodo
2. So Damn Lucky
3. Gravedigger
4. Some Devil
5. Trouble
6. Grey Blue Eyes
7. Save Me
8. Stay or Leave
9. An' Another Thing
10. Oh
11. Baby
12. Up and Away
13. Too High
14. Gravedigger - (acoustic)

Details
Contributing Artists:	Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Tony Hall, Trey Anastasio, Tim Reynolds
Producer:	Stephen Harris
Distributor:	BMG (distributor)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Initial pressings included a 5 song bonus disc.Personnel: Dave Matthews (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Tim Reynolds (acoustic & electric guitars); Trey Anastasio (electric guitar, piano); Dirty Dozen Brass Band (horns); Stephen Harris (harmonium, keyboards, percussion, programming); Alex Veley (organ); Tony Hall (bass); Brady Blade (drums, percussion); Total Experience Gospel Choir (background vocals).Recorded at Studio Litho, Studio X, Seattle, Washington and Bastyr University, Kenore, Washington between October 2002 & June 2003."Gravedigger" won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.Personnel: Dave Matthews (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Tim Reynolds (acoustic & electric guitars); Trey Anastasio (electric guitar, piano); Dirty Dozen Brass Band (horns); Stephen Harris (harmonium, keyboards, percussion, programming); Alex Veley (organ); Tony Hall (bass); Brady Blade (drums, percussion); Total Experience Gospel Choir (background vocals).Recorded at Studio Litho, Studio X, Seattle, Washington and Bastyr University, Kenore, Washington between October 2002 & June 2003."Gravedigger" won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.The Dave Matthews Band gained its reputation as a collective effort, so much so that Matthews's first official solo album might have been expected to signal a drastic change in direction. Ultimately, Matthews found a way to have his cake and eat it too on SOME DEVIL. While the distinctive contributions of his noted band members are absent here, he nevertheless goes for a not-dissimilar singer-songwriter-meets-worldbeat-pop vibe. Though Leroi Moore's sax and Boyd Tinsley's violin don't color the arrangements, SOME DEVIL offers a rhythm section--Daniel Lanois/Emmylou Harris cohorts Tony Hall and Brady Blade--that's adept at mixing rock, funk, jazz, and New Orleans R&B with Matthews's cerebral compositions, much as they did with Harris on WRECKING BALL. Jam-band peer Trey Anastasio of Phish joins longtime Matthews sideman Tim Reynolds on guitar, contributing tasteful and concise playing.While many of the tunes bear a strongly propulsive element, not least on account of Matthews's trademark percussive guitar style, SOME DEVIL is mostly more low-key than the DMB's work. "Grey Blue Eyes" sounds like it could have come off a latter-day Peter Gabriel album, while "Baby" is Matthews's acoustic-guitar-and-strings shot at "Yesterday." Towards this end, the blues-rocking "Gravedigger" is reprised at the disc's close in a quiet acoustic version.