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The Best of What’s Around Vol. 1 is the most recent hits compilation album by the Dave Matthews Band that was released in November 2006. The 2 CD set is the band’s 1st ever greatest hits album. It features 12 studio tracks on the 1st disc, as well as 8 previously unreleased live songs on the 2nd disc. Inside the CD case of Live Trax Vol. 6 there was an advertisement for The Best of What’s Around Vol. 1. The advertisement was incorrectly claiming that “Where Are You Going” was to be among the studio tracks appearing on disc 1, and that the compilation was to be released on November 6, but not November 7.

Yesterday, AT&T Inc. announced an agreement with Dave Matthews Band that gives customers 1st-ever access to selected ringtones. The initial offer that was made will be followed by a wider range of the most popular music group’s ringtones. It is the 1st time that the band ringtones have been available through any wireless carrier. AT&T delivers Dave Matthews Band’s ringtones from popular songs, like “Ants Marching,” and many more.

David John Matthews was born on January 9, 1967. And, whatever amazing it may seem, right from the very beginning of his life touring became the way of his life.

After the boy was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the family moved to a suburb of New York. Later they went to Cambridge, England. After a year in Europe, the family returned to the New York Suburb.

It was back in the USA when Dave, a 9 year old kid, took his first guitar lesson. However, as soon as they arrived in the States, Dave lost his father. This, and his mother’s anti-apartheid movement activist mood contributed much to Dave’s creative work as a singer and songwriter.

After a brief time in New York City, Dave returned back to Charlottesville, where he started to attend college but very soon understood that guitar and singing were his cup of tea. Exactly there, in C’Ville, he met his future band-members and it was in a local bar he first performed in public.That’s how Dave’s first steps to music were made.  In our further posts, we will discuss other bright facts from Dave Matthews’s shining career.