“Grey Street” by Dave Matthews Band

"Grey Street" was the last single pulled from Busted Stuff, the Dave Matthews Band's fifth album, released in July 2002. But the song had a life before that: its first known recording turned up on The Lillywhite Sessions, the Steve Lillywhite-produced tapes that circulated without ever getting an official release.

Matthews wrote the words, a portrait of a girl sinking under loneliness, boredom and powerlessness, with color, and the absence of it, running all the way through. The band shares the music credit, and Stephen Harris's production gives everybody room to move: Matthews on acoustic guitar and lead vocal, Boyd Tinsley on electric violin, LeRoi Moore on soprano and tenor sax, Stefan Lessard on bass and Carter Beauford on drums. John Alagia mixed it.

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