Artist	Song
James Brown	Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine, Pt. 1
from James Brown: The 50th Anniversary Collection (2003)
Grateful Dead	Scarlet Begonias
from From the Mars Hotel (2008)
Widespread Panic	Coconut
from Space Wrangler (2008)
Herbie Hancock	Chameleon
from The Best of Herbie Hancock (1988)
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones	The Sinister Minister
from Greatest Hits of the 20Th Century (2010)
Paul Simon	You Can Call Me Al
from The Paul Simon Collection: On My Way, Don't Know Where I'm Goin' (2010)
Parliament	Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
from The Best of Parliament - Give Up the Funk (1995)
Dexter Gordon	So Easy
from Dexter Digs In: The Young Dexter Gordon (2005)
Sting	Children's Crusade
from The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985)
Joan Armatrading	Willow
from Joan Armatrading: Greatest Hits (1996)
John Coltrane	Impressions
from The Very Best of John Coltrane (2001)
Johnny Clegg & Savuka	Dela (I Know Why the Dog Howls at the Moon)
from Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World (1999)
Talking Heads	This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
from The Best of Talking Heads (2004)
U2	One
from Achtung Baby (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered] (2011)
John D'Earth	Punch Line
from Restoration Comedy (2007)

Comment:

A little bit of jammin', a little bit of jazz, three continents of home-brew voodoo, and the snap-brim chic of soul: the ingredients for the Dave Matthews Band's musical stew sound like a recipe for some pretty amazing music. Take rock's original jam masters, the Grateful Dead; not only did they set up their own label (hello, ATO), but on the funky shuffle of "Scarlet Begonias" they strike the perfect (and nearly impossible) balance between locked-down and laid-back. Like Matthews, South African Johnny Clegg fronts a multi-ethnic band famed for its staggering stage prowess. [i]Unlike[/i] Matthews, Savuka melds township jive with worldbeat, and the undeniable groove of their "Dela (I Know Why the Dog Howls At the Moon)" helped push [i]Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World[/i] to #1 on the World Music charts. And if it's [i]groove[/i] you want, who better than the mighty Godfather of Soul, James Brown, gushing out funk by the sweat-drenched capeful in "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Pt. 1." From John Coltrane to the Talking Heads, from Parliament to U2, we've got the key cuts and the essential artists that made the DMB go OMG.

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