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Dave Matthews isn’t afraid to go biblical in his songwriting, and it being the holidays, I thought it’d be a nice time to take a deeper look at the DMB track “Christmas Song”. Although the track is not exactly your typical holiday song, I love listening to “Christmas Song” around December 25th. The song begins with the miracle of Jesus’s birth -”The Wiseman came, three made their way/To shower him with love/While he lay in the hay”, traces the savior’s formative years - “Not very much of his childhood was known/Kept his mother Mary worried/Always out on his own”, his arrest “By the authorities less informed than he”, his death “When Jesus Christ was nailed to the tree/said ‘o Daddio, I can see now how it will all be”, and the lingering questions we are left with “Father up above, why in all this anger do you fill/Me up with love, love, love”. The song has a very elemental feel to it and really cuts to the heart of the what the Christian holiday of Christmas is based around. One of the best tracks off of Remember Two Things.

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds are finishing up their short trek for charity this weekend in Las Vegas. The duo rocked Seattle on Wednesday playing an intimate show at McCaw Hall. Despite Dave getting a few cases of what he called “Zombie Hand”, concert goers got their money’s worth. Dave busted out some incredible renditions of “Oh”, “Satellite”, and “Don’t Drink the Water”, while Tim wowed the crowd with a few instrumental solos. The two long-time collaborators have a one-of-a-king chemistry that seems to flourish in small venues like McCaw Hall. In an interview, Dave hinted that maybe the band would get together for one gig next year, possibly at The Gorge or Seattle’s annual music festival Bumbershoot. Dave, who lives outside Seattle, will be likely be spending a lot of time in the area with the band on hiatus in 2011. However, the DMB founder is never one to stay put for long. Stay tuned for more happenings!