This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Neo-hippie singer-guitarist Dave Matthews and his funky bunch are often portrayed as heirs to Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead’s jam-band sensibility.
Maybe so. But musically, as the double-live disc Listener Supported makes clear, they’re benefactors of Lowell George and Little Feat as well. And not just because Dave drops some of the lyrics to Dixie Chicken into his own Crash Into Me. Like the Feats, the DMB have an awesome, hyperkinetically groovy drummer, plenty of syncopated rhythms and more partay-down vibes than the Dead ever displayed. One thing they did inherit from the Dead is a penchant for musical meandering — with songs that average seven minutes in length, Listener Supported has more noodling than a Thai eatery during the lunch rush.
