DMB Releases 5 Song EP for Haiti Relief
Posted by Joe Maliszeski in Album News at 12:57pm on Friday, Jan 29th, 2010
The Dave Matthews Band, in an initiative to assist in providing long-term support to the people of the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti, has established the Bama Works Haiti Relief Fund. A 5-song EP entitled The Haiti Relief Project as well as a new, limited edition T-shirt featuring album cover art will be available tomorrow with proceeds benefiting the relief fund. In addition, all proceeds from merchandise sales in the
The Warehouse Store and
The Official Store for 24 hours - from 12 noon ET on Friday, January 29th to 12 noon ET on Saturday January 30th - will go to the Relief Fund.
THE HAITI RELIEF PROJECT EP Track Listing
- BUTTERFLY 08.28.2007 / Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Kansas City / Bonner Springs, KS (Dave solo)
- CRY FREEDOM 07.31.2004 / Sound Advice Amphitheatre / West Palm Beach, FL
- OUT OF MY HANDS 07.19.2009 Alpine Valley Music Theatre / East Troy, WI
- LYING IN THE HANDS OF GOD / 06.12.2009 / Saratoga Performing Arts Center / Saratoga Springs, NY
- DIVE IN / 09.10.2009 / Greek Theatre / Los Angeles, CA
The collection kicks off with "Butterfly," a solemn, yet uplifting version written for the film Because of Winn Dixie and performed solo by Dave. It's followed by a 2004 version of "Cry Freedom" featuring a powerful performance from LeRoi Moore. Three rousing songs captured on the band's 2009 summer tour - "Out Of My Hands," "Lying In The Hands Of God" and "Dive In" are also included.
Antsmarching.org was honored to input our ideas for the track listing and versions. We hope you like the songs. We're REALLY excited about them. Let us know what you think on the forums. We're sure you'll see Jake weigh in on details in the forums on the specific performances and their uniqueness.
