The Lillywhite Sessions ( tLWS ) is a collection of songs recorded by Dave Matthews Band in 1999 and 2000 and produced by Steve Lillywhite . The songs, recorded by the band as a follow-up to their 1998 album Before These Crowded Streets , were ultimately scrapped by the band's label. Upon being forced by the label to abandon the album-in-progress, Dave Matthews was assigned to work with producer Glen Ballard who, in association with Matthews, wrote the album Everyday in just ten days. This contrasted with the band's prior style of writing, which included significant collaboration between the band members in the studio. The recordings later emerged on the Internet shortly after the release of Everyday, and created controversy among fans as well as the music industry, which was early in its campaign to curb illegal file downloads. The Lillywhite Sessions were never officially released, but most of the songs were later recorded for their 2002 album Busted Stuff .
53-584: Also recorded but cut from the album is the track "Build You a House". The album was supposed to be produced in the manner of the band's prior three ( Under the Table and Dreaming , Crash , and Before These Crowded Streets ), all of which had been produced by Steve Lillywhite. Having recorded Dave Matthews Band in studios in New York City , Woodstock, New York and Sausalito, California , Lillywhite had an established relationship with its members. For this album,
106-466: A parametric equalizer , audio converters , and a tube compressor . The songs were then balanced to distribute the music evenly through stereo channels , and eventually burned back onto a CD-R. Following the release of the mastered album, "Karmageddon," claimed in an interview that the mastering process he used is "basically the TRUE industry standard as to how a CD gets finalized before mass-production." Once
159-522: A 56k dial-up modem, he decided to transfer the songs to someone with a lot of bandwidth who could host them. Using Napster, Knapp then sent the tracks to a fellow member of DMBML, Drew Wiley, who released over the Internet the 96 kbit/s MP3s . Within days, the tracks were also released as 128 kbit/s MP3s, and later as lossless SHN files. The tracks made their way all over the internet via private servers and peer-to-peer programs like Napster . After
212-595: A Japanese act for the first time when he co-produced Luna Sea 's 2019 album Cross . In interviews about the album, the producer has stated that he is semi-retired living in Jakarta for the past five years and now only works with select artists. Lillywhite was born in Surrey , England. From 1984 to 1994, he was married to Kirsty MacColl ; they had two sons, Jamie and Louis. (MacColl died in 2000.) He married Patricia Louise Galluzzi on 29 May 2004; they divorced ten years later. He
265-454: A Senior Vice-president of A&R . During his tenure he signed MGMT . He left the label at the end of 2006. Lillywhite collected consecutive Grammy Awards for Record of the Year with U2's " Beautiful Day " and "Walk On". In 2006, Lillywhite won three more Grammys: Producer of the Year (Non-Classical), Best Rock Album also with U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb ; and a partial win for Album of
318-673: A combination of artistry and perseverance." The Baltimore Sun determined that "the band has a great sense of groove, evincing all the rhythmic discipline of a jazz band without ever losing its sense of the song." All tracks are written by David J. Matthews , except "#34" by Matthews, LeRoi Moore , Carter Beauford and Haines Fullerton Note: Original CD editions of the album include 22 tracks of silence between "Pay for What You Get" and " #34 ". Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Steve Lillywhite Stephen Alan Lillywhite , CBE (born 15 March 1955)
371-513: A complete cover of the album, also entitled The Lillywhite Sessions . In 2002 the Dave Matthews Band released Busted Stuff , a new album which contained re-recordings of many of the songs that were left collecting dust with Sessions . The new album contained 11 tracks—nine tracks re-recorded from The Lillywhite Sessions , and two new tracks (" Where Are You Going " and "You Never Know"). "JTR," "Sweet Up and Down," and "Monkey Man," were
424-421: A completed album to support. The band played a number of new songs that summer from those sessions, including "Grey Street," "Raven," "Sweet Up and Down," "Grace Is Gone," "Bartender," "Digging a Ditch" and the reworked "JTR." Although Rolling Stone referred to The Lillywhite Sessions ' original title as The Summer So Far , the album was never intended to be titled as such. The title The Summer So Far
477-417: A glimpse into what the band was doing during the early part of The Lillywhite Sessions . Songs like "JTR" and "Bartender" in their earliest rawest forms can be found on this disc, as well as an intro to "Grace Is Gone." Below is a copy of the text file that accompanied the internet-circulated demo: Once the album leaked, attention by fans and media escalated. Many fans were eager for an official release of
530-542: A minimal use of the rest of the band, was released in February 2001 as Everyday . In March 2001, Craig Knapp, the lead singer of Dave Matthews Band cover band "Ants Marching," received a CD from a friend containing the lost Lillywhite Sessions. He then contacted producer Steve Lillywhite via e-mail inquiring what to do with the tracks, and posted his message on the message boards at Dave Matthews Band fan site "DMBML." Hello Mr. Lillywhite, I thank you in advance for taking
583-757: A solo album, So Alone . His first commercial success came in August 1978 as the producer of " Hong Kong Garden ", the debut single from Siouxsie and the Banshees which peaked at number 7 in the UK Singles chart. He was soon hired to produce Siouxsie and the Banshees' debut album The Scream which was certified silver in the UK. He also produced "Ku Klux Klan", the first single that Steel Pulse released on Island Records in 1978. In 1979, he scored two hits for Virgin Records with The Members:
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#1732863335764636-459: A song which the Dave Matthews Band performed with Santana in 1999, "John the Revelator," retitling it "JTR." During the recording of the sessions, RCA Records executive Bruce Flohr asked drummer Carter Beauford about his feelings about the songs at that point, to which he replied that he "didn't feel it" and was almost certain that the other band members "didn't feel it" either, implying that
689-522: Is an English record producer. Since he began his career in 1977, Lillywhite has been credited on over 500 records, and has collaborated with a variety of musicians including new wave acts XTC , Big Country , Siouxsie and the Banshees , Simple Minds , Ultravox, the Psychedelic Furs , Beady Eye , Toyah , David Byrne , Talking Heads and Kirsty MacColl , as well as U2 , the Rolling Stones ,
742-584: The UK Singles Chart in the fall of that year. In February 1980, the Psychedelic Furs ' self-titled debut album was released, produced by Lillywhite. He also produced Peter Gabriel 's critically acclaimed third solo album Peter Gabriel (also known as III or Melt ), which was released in May 1980 and topped the UK album chart . It established Gabriel as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians" and "raised considerably" Lillywhite's profile. During
795-418: The music industry in 1972, when he worked as a tape operator for PolyGram . He produced a demo recording for Ultravox! , which led to them being offered a recording contract with Island Records . Lillywhite soon joined Island as a staff producer, where he worked with many of the leading new wave musicians, including his brother's band, The Members , and guitarist Johnny Thunders , for whom he produced
848-676: The Horizon . He also worked on Blue October 's Approaching Normal , and rejoined Flood to work with Thirty Seconds to Mars on This Is War . In 2008, Lillywhite produced a number of recordings for the World Cafe radio show on NPR . This included sessions at Avatar Studios in New York with Fleet Foxes , She & Him , Bell X1 , Dr. Dog , and Mercury Rev . In November 2009, he began presenting his own weekly radio show on East Village Radio called "The Lillywhite Sessions". On 25 May 2010,
901-589: The Hot Rods , Morrissey , The Rolling Stones and the Shine album by the former ABBA vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad . Lillywhite was also hired by Rush to produce their 1984 album, Grace Under Pressure but, much to their frustration, withdrew from the project to work with Simple Minds . Alex Lifeson , Geddy Lee , and Neil Peart referred to Lillywhite as a man not of his word for not following through on what had already been scheduled. In 1987, Lillywhite worked with
954-601: The Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to music. On 16 July 2012, the Irish Examiner reported that Lillywhite was attached to a new television show entitled ’' The Hit . Lillywhite reunited with Thirty Seconds to Mars in 2012, co-producing the band's fourth studio album Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams , alongside Jared Leto . In 2015, at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards , Lillywhite
1007-544: The Pogues , Blue October , Steel Pulse , the La's , Peter Gabriel , Morrissey , the Killers , Dave Matthews Band , Phish , Guster , Counting Crows and Joan Armatrading . He has won six Grammy Awards , including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical in 2006. In 2012, he was made a Commander of the Order of The British Empire (CBE) for his contributions to music. Lillywhite entered
1060-554: The Pogues , producing " Fairytale of New York ". His wife, Kirsty MacColl , provided the lead female vocal for the song, which became the band's biggest hit. The single narrowly missed being the UK Christmas number one single, but was still one of the biggest selling records that year, and has frequently returned to the holiday charts. MacColl also provided additional vocals during Lillywhite's production of Talking Heads ' final album, 1988's Naked . The song " Cotton Fields ", from
1113-696: The Pogues' 1989 album Peace and Love (also produced by Lillywhite), includes a reference to "Steve Lillywhite's drunken mix ". During the 1990s, Lillywhite produced the multi platinum albums Under the Table and Dreaming , Crash , and Before These Crowded Streets by the Dave Matthews Band . In 1991, he continued to produce Morrissey and co-produced songs from U2's Achtung Baby , working alongside Brian Eno , Daniel Lanois and Flood . That same year he returned to Dublin to produce Engine Alley 's debut album entitled A Sonic Holiday , and Kirsty MacColl again provided additional vocals, this time for
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#17328633357641166-595: The Surrey anthem "Sound of the Suburbs" and protest reggae classic "Offshore Banking Business". Lillywhite along with engineer Hugh Padgham began working with the band XTC in June and July 1979 at Townhouse Studios in London for Virgin Records. The resulting album, Drums and Wires , was released on 17 August 1979 and " Making Plans for Nigel ", the single taken from the album, reached #17 on
1219-438: The Year, also for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb . In late 2006, he worked with Chris Cornell on his album Carry On , and also produced two songs on Switchfoot 's album, Oh! Gravity. . In February 2007, Lillywhite began work with Crowded House on tracks for Time on Earth , the band's first studio album in fourteen years. The majority of the album was produced by Ethan Johns , but Lillywhite produced four songs with
1272-568: The band on the 2000 summer tour, but vanished just a month and a half after the tour's start. It reemerged in 2003 during the Dave Matthews & Friends tour. The song also made a brief return to DMB setlists in 2007, and returned again during the 2010 summer tour. The song would make a return a decade later on February 28, 2020, at a one-off DMB show at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. "Monkey Man"
1325-430: The band purchased a house near their hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia and converted a portion of it into a recording studio. The band tried some new things, including Matthews playing a twelve string guitar . In early 2000, Lillywhite posted a report on the band's website with details about the session-in-progress, saying that the band had recorded a number of new songs, including "Sweet Up and Down," and had reworked
1378-420: The band, or yourself. I guess my question is simply this: Am I disrespecting the Dave Matthews Band and Steve Lillywhite by making these songs available? I would really appreciate a response when you get a chance. Thank you so much for your time, Craig Knapp Knapp received an apparently faked e-mail response from Lillywhite, giving Knapp approval to release the tracks via the Internet. Since Knapp only had
1431-422: The final album. Reynolds then overdubbed additional acoustic and electric guitar parts. Matthews has stated during performances that the harmonica solo performed by John Popper on " What Would You Say " was done in only five to ten minutes, while Matthews was in the bathroom. "Granny" was recorded for this release and Matthews wanted this to be the band's first single, but the song never made it to any of
1484-458: The full touring line-up, including new drummer Matt Sherrod as well as studio guest guitarist Johnny Marr . Lillywhite's next project was working with Matchbox Twenty on an EP that comprised a portion of Exile on Mainstream , a two-disc album that entered the US charts at No. 3 and Australian charts at No. 1. In 2008, Lillywhite again worked alongside Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois on U2's No Line on
1537-454: The information about this disc is from Drew Wiley. Wiley leaked one full song that has been released off this second disc, "Build You a House," a very rough song recorded early in the sessions and dropped later making no appearance on the widely spread Lillywhite Sessions disc. The clips that were released are recordings that Wiley made over the phone while his source played the tracks therefore they have notoriously bad audio quality, but provide
1590-477: The mastered album was released on the internet, it became the first-ever mastered copy of The Lillywhite Sessions , since the original leaked files were simply raw tracks from the mixing board and were never mastered. Under the Table and Dreaming Under the Table and Dreaming is the debut studio album by the American rock band Dave Matthews Band , released on September 27, 1994. The album's first single
1643-460: The name stuck. "When we stopped recording for the band to start their summer tour, I returned to England with one of the eight CDs that I had made. Five for the Band, one for [Steve Lillywhite], one for Bruce Flohr, and the one for myself and had written on them 'the summer so far'. We only did that because all the other CDs that I had made up to then, I had called 'the story so far'. 'The summer so far'
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1696-460: The official Oasis website announced that Lillywhite was working with Liam Gallagher , Gem Archer , Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock on material for their new band Beady Eye . He co-produced, with the band, the album Different Gear, Still Speeding . Lillywhite produced an album for Evanescence at MSR Studios from February 2010 to April that year, but was scrapped in early 2011. On his work with Evanescence, Lillywhite said: "what happened
1749-483: The preferred choice by the band. In 2002, Universal Music Group head Lucian Grainge invited Lillywhite to become managing director. Lillywhite signed singer-songwriter Darius Danesh and served as executive producer for his debut album Dive In , which spawned three Top 10 hits, and Mercury Records ' first number one in eighteen years. He also signed Razorlight , and also produced Jason Mraz 's Mr. A-Z . In September 2005, Lillywhite joined Columbia Records as
1802-488: The recording of the album, he pioneered (with Gabriel and engineer Hugh Padgham ) the gated reverb drum sound which became a hallmark of Phil Collins ' solo career. Later in the year, Boy , the debut album of U2 , was released, produced by Lillywhite. Lillywhite's collaboration with U2 continued with the albums October and War . He moved on to produce work by Bruce Foxton (of The Jam ), Big Country , XTC , The Chameleons , Toyah , Talking Heads , Eddie and
1855-491: The recording sessions, Matthews and Reynolds would sit face-to-face with a piece of glass between them, playing the same guitar part. This was done twice for each song to yield a total of four acoustic guitar tracks, two apiece from Matthews and Reynolds. Producer Steve Lillywhite frequently turned the volume down on Matthews' parts and turned the volume up on Reynolds', resulting in Reynolds' guitar playing being more prominent on
1908-408: The recordings were not going in the direction in which the band had intended. The songs that had been recorded at that point were very dark, which Dave Matthews claimed was partly inspired by his alcohol consumption during the sessions, inspiring him to write "sad bastard songs" that were full of pity. "[The songs] inspired pity, self pity, or pity for the sad bastard that wrote them. I felt like I
1961-483: The release of Everyday , which many fans complained was too " pop -ish", the leak of the Sessions gave some fans what they wanted—an album recorded much like older Dave Matthews Band material. A second demo, referred to as "disc two," had been admitted into existence to the communities after the initial release, and slowly, low-quality leaks of some of the disc started to circulate on Dave Matthews Band fan sites. Most of
2014-497: The session that you and DMB recorded in Virginia. I love it very much, excellent work. I am blessed to receive this gift. My question for you is one of moral standards. I would really like to share these songs with the DMB trading community. However, I feel that if the Dave Matthews Band and Steve Lillywhite didn't release these songs, then what gives me that right? I don't want to disrespect
2067-428: The sessions. Online feedback from fans, including a website-based campaign called "Release Lillywhite Recordings Campaign," received media attention from Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone , which gave the unmastered album better reviews than the successful Everyday . During the 2001 summer tour, the band didn't just debut live versions of the songs from Everyday , but also began to play "Big Eyed Fish," which
2120-404: The single "Song for Someone". He also produced Travis ' debut album and the debut (and only) album by The La's . In 1996, he produced Phish 's Billy Breathes , and he returned to produce Joy in 2009. Lilywhite was featured as the subject for a BBC Radio 1 documentary series on record producers. In 1999, he produced the US band Guster 's Lost and Gone Forever . In 2000, Lillywhite
2173-471: The song " Ants Marching ": "[He] remembers being small / playing under the table and dreaming". The album was dedicated to Matthews' older sister Anne, who was killed by her husband in 1994 in a murder–suicide. Included in the jewel case packet is a picture of Dave Matthews and one of Anne's children. Stereo Review noted that "Matthews is a lucid dreamer and idealist whose folk-jazz forays call to mind Bruce Cockburn , another square peg who wins fans with
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2226-401: The studio albums. A studio version of this track is included on the 2014 reissue of the album. " #34 " is the only instrumental track on the album although it was played live with lyrics on nine occasions in 1993, prior to the band taking it to the studio. The band originally recorded the song with lyrics, but they were removed from the final album cut. The album's title comes from a lyric of
2279-457: The three tracks not re-recorded on the album. "JTR" returned as part of the band's concert rotation, having appeared on the Live at Folsom Field album and played during the 2006 summer tour. It returned again in 2010 and has since been played intermittently during the band's tours. Its most recent performance came during the band's 2024 summer tour. "Sweet Up and Down" was performed several times by
2332-405: The time to read this E-mail. I have unintentionally placed myself in a very precarious situation. About a week ago, I received an E-mail from a DMB fan who claimed they had some unreleased material from the new Dave Matthews Band CD. He asked if I wanted a copy, and I said yes, thinking it was going to be acoustic takes from "Everyday." In any event, I received a package yesterday, and it was indeed
2385-463: Was " What Would You Say ", featuring John Popper of Blues Traveler on harmonica . Four other singles from the album followed: "Jimi Thing", "Typical Situation", " Ants Marching ", and " Satellite ". By March 16, 2000, the album had sold six million copies, and was certified six times platinum by the RIAA . The acoustic guitar tracks on the album were played by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds . During
2438-557: Was a few people lost their nerve. I don't even think it was her [ Amy Lee ]. It was people at the record company who really had no other band. They were thinking more in terms of the commerce rather than the art." In 2011, Bono and the Edge brought Lillywhite in to produce the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark cast recording for Interscope . In 2012, Lillywhite was appointed Commander of
2491-730: Was awarded his sixth Grammy Award for his work on Juanes 's album Loco De Amor . That same year, he was credited as a producer on Amy Lee 's cover of Chris Isaak 's "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing" for her Recover, Vol. 1 EP. The track was originally recorded for Evanescence's original third album produced by Lillywhite in 2010 but it was rejected by their label . In 2016, Lillywhite produced an album by Thai rock band Slot Machine. In April 2017, musician and writer Jon Regen wrote an article for The New York Times profiling Lillywhite and his work bundling recorded CDs with fried chicken in Indonesian KFC restaurants. Lillywhite worked with
2544-455: Was fired from the fourth album by the Dave Matthews Band after band members cited creative differences. In 2001, a number of their recordings emerged on a bootleg album, known now as The Lillywhite Sessions ; many of the songs from those recordings followed later, on the Dave Matthews Band's album Busted Stuff . The unfinished tracks appeared online, and the majority of the tracks were re-recorded, without Lillywhite, with Stephen Harris as
2597-450: Was in the process of failing, in the process of letting everyone down. In the process of not supplying the band with songs, not giving the producer the music, not giving the record company tunes—so inside that environment, I was continuing to do just that, come up with these sad bastard songs." The album was scheduled for release in the second half of 2000. The band eventually decided to scrap the sessions, and perform their summer tour without
2650-429: Was never going to be an album title, by the way, just a way to distinguish what was then the most up-to-date CD." During the tour, Matthews was introduced to producer Glen Ballard , and discussed completing the shelved Sessions . During the time they spent together, Matthews and Ballard wrote an entire album of new songs before the rest of the band had joined them. The album, which featured electric guitar by Matthews and
2703-458: Was never released on an album or played live, making it the only song that is exclusively available on The Lillywhite Sessions. In April 2006, a self-described recording engineer using the alias of "Karmageddon" mastered the tracks from The Lillywhite Sessions and released them on the Internet. Using the original SHN files released online, Karmageddon burned the songs to a CD-R and ran them through high-end audio mastering equipment, such as
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#17328633357642756-517: Was on the sessions but up to that point had never been performed live. The Dave Matthews Band was unexpectedly touring behind two albums, the one which they actually released, and the one which they didn't want in the marketplace. In response to the album's leak, Steve Lillywhite said, "I cannot condone the release of these unfinished recordings, although I feel these are some of the most moving pieces of music that I've ever recorded with Dave Matthews Band." In 2018 singer-songwriter Ryley Walker released
2809-421: Was simply the name of the band's most current recording of the sessions, dubbed by engineer Stephen Harris , who later produced Busted Stuff . Dave Matthews himself has claimed in several interviews that he intended to title the final album Busted Stuff , which he eventually did when the band went back in the recording studio in 2002 to re-record the album. The title Lillywhite Sessions was dubbed by fans, and
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