Released on DMB's Bama Rags label, this album combined songs recorded live with a few studio numbers. Including number of fan favorites ("Ants Marching," "Tripping Billies" and "Satellite") that were later re-recorded for Under the Table, the album helped established the band regionally.  

 The five-song EP Recently was released on DMB's Bama Rags label just before the band signed to RCA in 1994. Includes acoustic versions of "Dancing Nancies" and "Warehouse," as well as a live full-band assault on "All Along the Watchtower." 

 Under the Table and Dreaming, their first studio album and major label debut, moved them forward. Producer Steve Lillywhite helped focus and streamline their sound, providing an airtight framework over which the soloists added limber coloration.  

 The group demonstrated further growth and finesse on Crash, fine-tuning its studio persona and bucking the notion that jam bands can't make good records. Crash included the DMB classics "Two Step" and "#41," and netted them their biggest hit. 

 Before These Crowded Streets marked the point at which the DMB became a good song band as well as a great jam band. Fans, critics, and Matthews himself consider it their quintessential album. 

 Listener Supported came from an end-of-tour gig in New Jersey in 1999, while Live at Folsom Field, recorded in July 2001, found them revamping their set with fresh material. 

 The group next recorded and abandoned an album, known to fans and bootleggers as The Lillywhite Sessions (for producer Steve Lillywhite). In its stead, Matthews split to Los Angeles, where he wrote and recorded a new album, Everyday. 

 On Busted Stuff, the Dave Matthews Band took the unusual step of rerecording their lost album with a fresh perspective on the material, combined with a tighter approach to arrangements gleaned from their one-off with Ballard. 

 By ths time, the group were getting so popular as a touring act, fans had forgotten that their live favorites were born in a studio. So instead of trying to compete with the energy of their shows, the band turned introspective on 2005's Stand Up, 

 Weekend on the Rocks–a two-CD, one-DVD set from another Red Rocks stint on September 9-12, 2005–proves that in the decade since they recorded their last show at the venue, they've gained more muscular guitars and a tighter horn section. 

 After Stand Up, getting back out into fresh air did the band good. 2006's greatest hits set The Best of What's Around offered a treasure trove of unreleased live performances. 

 Moore's saxophone is the first and last sound you hear on 2009's Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King, and his loss haunted everything in between. "Still here dancing with the GrooGrux King," Matthews declared on "Why I Am."