Dave Matthews Band has been eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame since 2019 and was nominated once before — in 2021 — before making the cut this year.
A jam band known for plentiful, and obsessively attended, live shows, Dave Matthews Band has also had quite an impressive recording career. They are the only band to have seven consecutive albums debut at #1.
They have had seven Platinum albums, five of which went multi-Platinum, including the two smash hits that started their career — 1994’s Under the Table and Dreaming and 1996’s Crash.
I played those two albums obsessively at the time, and though I rarely revisit them now, when those songs pop up from time to time they still work like gangbusters. With a violin and saxophone joining the traditional guitar/bass/drums lineup, DMB fused pop and rock with jazz and folk into something I’d never heard before.
It’s been more than ten years and three albums since I paid attention to Dave Matthews Band, but they’re still going strong, selling out live shows and dropping their tenth album last year. I’m kind of surprised they weren’t a first ballot Hall of Fame inductee, but I’m happy to see them get in.
He wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth bite to eat and he’s rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends, the week begins
She thinks, we look at each other
Wondering what the other is thinking
But we never say a thing
These crimes between us grow deeper
[Pre-Chorus]
Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
[Verse 2]
Goes to visit his mommy
She feeds him well his concerns
He forgets them
And remembers being small
Playing under the table and dreaming
[Pre-Chorus]
Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
[Verse 3]
Driving in on this highway
All these cars and upon the sidewalk
People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchange
[Chorus]
When all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennae waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way
[Bridge]
Candyman tempting the thoughts of a
Sweet tooth tortured by the weight loss
Program cutting the corners
Loose end, loose end, cut, cut
On the fence, could not to offend
Cut, cut, cut, cut
[Pre-Chorus]
Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
Meet Me In Montauk 
Hard to believe it’s been more than 25 years since DMB’s first album, but I agree they deserve induction into the Rock Hall.