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Dave Matthews Band Opens Up - CBS News

The Dave Matthews Band has been at the top of the charts with Grammy-winning hits like "So Much To Say," but the group has been press shy ... at least until our Anthony Mason talked with them about their new album, and the tragedy that inspired it:


It's a strange and improbable fusion of folk, jazz, funk & rock that has made the Dave Matthews Band one of the most popular groups of the past two decades.

"We're still pretty strange in the whole picture," Matthews said. "Not a lot of people sound like us."

But it can be good to be strange. Forty-two-year-old Dave Matthews is frontman, lead singer and songwriter of the group that bears his name, a bar band born in a college town that's become one of the icons of arena rock.

But after 30 million records sold and four number one albums, Matthews admitted to us, the band was in trouble.

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