What Is It?
The YouTube video Gravedigger by the YouTube channel Dave Matthews Band, which is of the song Gravedigger by Dave Matthews from his 2003 solo music album Some Devil:
Here is the description for this video:
Provided to YouTube by RCA Records Label
Gravedigger · Dave Matthews
Some Devil
℗ 2003 BMG Music
Released on: 2003-09-22
Composer, Lyricist: David J. Matthews
Percussion, Engineer, Producer: Stephen Harris
Drums: Brady Blade
Bass Guitar: Tony Hall
Electric Guitar: Tim Reynolds
Electric Guitar: Trey Anastasio
Arranger: Audrey Riley
Assistant Engineer, Engineer: Floyd Reitsma
Engineer: John Schluckebier
Engineer: Mark Branch
Strings: Seattlemusic Group
Mixing Engineer: Mark “Spike” Stent
Engineer: John Whynot
Assistant Engineer, Engineer: Brian Valentino
Engineer: Paul ‘Pdub’ Walton
Assistant Engineer: Dave Treahern
Assistant Engineer: Rob HaggettAuto-generated by YouTube.
Here is how Wikipedia describes this song:
“Gravedigger” is a song by Dave Matthews from his debut solo album, Some Devil.
This was the first solo single released by Matthews away from the Dave Matthews Band, and it won a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards held in February 2004.
The song has been performed live by Dave Matthews (solo), by Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, at Dave Matthews & Friends concerts, and occasionally as an acoustic solo by Matthews during Dave Matthews Band shows.
During the Dave Matthews Band’s tours in 2008 and 2009, it was played regularly by the full band.
Matthews said about the song:[2]
“It’s kind of these different stories that are brought together by walking through a graveyard with their names and the dates of their births and their deaths, and the stories that came out of their lives.
It’s sort of just telling those stories and some others as you wander through a graveyard and what you might think if you could walk into the graves and find out what people went through to get there.”
There was also an acoustic version of the song on the album Some Devil.
The song began as an intro played twice solo by Matthews at full-band DMB shows in the spring of 2002, before debuting as a full solo song in the same tour.
In the original “Gravedigger Intro” version, only two people are mentioned: Merrill Lee (1905–1969) and Robert John Smith.
Music video
A music video was produced for the song, directed by Mark Pellington. [3]
While filming the video in Montana, Matthews lost his wedding band in the grave, though it was eventually recovered.
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