Walker began his set with the expanded “Roundabout,” which appears as a four-minute track on his 2016 album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung. Like his recording of “First Tube,” Walker’s set at the Showbox saw him accompanied by bassist Andrew Scott Young and drummer Ryan Jewell. Somewhat reminiscent of Walker’s 20-minute cover of Phish’s “First Tube” for JamBase’s Cluster Flies covers compilation, his approach to The “Roundabout” was to break out of the song’s structure into a free-form, sprawlingly psychedelic improvisation. The performance was part of the guitarist’s opening set before the Drive-By Truckers show at Showbox. And it does make record nerds upset, which I appreciate.Ryley Walker played a 23-minute version of “The Roundabout” on Sunday night in Seattle. What makes it more fun and fascinating is that we’re covering songs only hardcore fans would know. “Dave is the most punk as it gets,” Walker says. Walker says he doesn’t have any plans to work the music into his live sets, but he does hope that paying homage to the Dave Matthews Band will throw some people for a loop. He retained its initial integrity and feel - and used some of the themes of The Lillywhite Sessions to tell about himself.” I imagined it as an even more experimental album than what Ryley turned in.
“And while it was most certainly out-of-the-box for us, the partners here were almost immediately into it. “It was greeted with open arms and supposedly Dave himself has put an ear on it,” says Dead Oceans’ A&R Eric Dienes. It was a huge violation.”ĭead Oceans, Walker’s label, alerted Dave Matthews Band’s management early on about the project - and getting their blessing wasn’t difficult at all. Releasing an unreleased album that was leaked to the internet adds a twist to this, though.Īt the time, Matthews wasn’t too pleased with the leak, telling Billboard in 2002 that it equated to “a painter finding his painting for sale in a gallery before he’s finished it. In 2015, Ryan Adams’ covered Taylor Swift’s smash 1989, releasing it while Swift was still supporting that on tour (the two often chatted about it on Twitter while he was still recording it). But eventually, he found the creative direction he wanted to take it, describing it as “Dave through the filter of Drag City records.” He’s referring to the Chicago label, as well as a post-rock sound that bands like Tortoise and the Sea and Cake draw from - along with labels like Thrill Jockey and Touch & Go.Ĭovering an another artist’s album start to finish isn’t a new concept – the Flaming Lips released an album in 2014 called With a Little Help From My Fwends, a trippy track-by-track take on the Beatles’ Sgt. New 2018 album from the Chicago psych-folk behemoth and Twitter titan Produced by Leroy Bach. Initially, he just played along with the original recordings. And it took months of pre-planning, where Walker says he listened to The Lillywhite Sessions “about 500 times” and worked for two months straight, getting down the arrangements. But the project wasn’t a spur of the moment endeavor he had been kicking around this idea for a while. Walker recorded the 12 songs that appear on The Lillywhite Sessions in a four-day burst back in January 2018 in Chicago, while he was waiting for the release of Deafman Glance in May, his fourth album of original material. Many of the songs would eventually be re-recorded for Dave Matthews Band’s 2002 album Busted Stuff, which didn’t feature Lillywhite as the producer, but instead British producer Stephen Harris. Named after famed producer Steve Lillywhite, who Dave Matthews Band was working with at the time, The Lillywhite Sessions leaked to the internet in the spring of 2001, and featured a number of songs like “Busted Stuff,” “Grace Is Gone,” and “Diggin’ a Ditch” - songs that had yet to make it to an official studio recording, though they had been worked into the band’s live set at that point. Dave Matthews Band Album Covers Ranked From Worst to Best
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