Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews Band emerged from the jam band underground of the 1990s to become an enduring American musical institution. Steeped in the progressive, multi-cultural sounds of the '80s -- the group spliced bar band college rock with the jazz and worldbeat explorations of and -- built a following through word-of-mouth cultivated by traded cassettes of live performances, a trick learned from the . Where concentrated on psychedelic explorations, was groove-based, anchored by fusion drummer Carter Beauford and given slippery life by Matthews, a singer/songwriter who specialized in exuberant exhortations and moody introspection alike. Between 1994's Under the Table and Dreaming and 2009's Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King, were mainstays on the adult alternative rock charts, yet no matter how many hits they had, they remained road warriors, drawing significant crowds to celebrate the release of Walk Around the Moon, the 2023 album that appeared nearly three decades after the group's major-label debut.