Dave matthews band busted stuff biography

This third and final installment of my Lillywhite Sessions/Busted Stuff retrospective homes in on DMB’s fifth formal studio set.

The aptly titled Busted Stuff was released on July 16, 2002. This album is, in my opinion, firmly, the fourth-best DMB record. A tier below the so-called big three, but still slightly above Away From the World and Big Whiskey.

To DMB’s credit, the guys knew people wanted to hear those Lillywhite Sessions tunes on an official record.

They had unfinished business to tend to.

Busted stuff band

So, basically two years after the quintet assembled in Charlottesville for their failed first attempt, they instead flew across the country and met where they had recorded once before, in Sausalito, California.

 They were going to record at the Record Plant, the site and studio where they made Before These Crowded Streets.

But these Busted Stuff sessions would not be like the Streets sessions, even if there was even