''Live In Las Vegas'' is a live album by

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. The recorded show was performed on December 12, 2009, at the

Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino Planet Hollywood Las Vegas (formerly the Aladdin) is a casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. The resort includes a casino and 2,494 hotel rooms. It also fea ...

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. This album is the acoustic duo's third official release.

Songs and performance

The songs on ''Live in Las Vegas'' were recorded live concert at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on December 11 and 12, 2009. This album marks the first official release of acoustic versions of songs from ''

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King ''Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King'' is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Dave Matthews Band, which was released by RCA Records on June 2, 2009. It is the band's first release since the death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore, and it i ...

''. Thirteen songs were

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songs, five from the

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solo album ''

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'', one song was a

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original, and the remaining songs were various unrecorded or borrowed songs. Similar to ''

Live at Radio City ''Live at Radio City'' is a live album and video by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds recorded at Radio City Music Hall on April 22, 2007. This was the first release by Matthews and Reynolds since ''Live at Luther College'', released in 1999. Re ...

'', Matthews and Reynolds performed together, with the exception of two songs played solo by Reynolds ("Kundalini Bonfire" and "

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" by

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) and Matthews playing "Some Devil" solo.

Track listing

Disc one

Eh Hee "Eh Hee" is a song written and recorded by Dave Matthews that was released as a digital single on September 4, 2007. An accompanying music video was also released on the same date, and was available as a free download from the iTunes Store for on ...

" - 6:08 #"

Dancing Nancies Dance is an art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements or ...

" - 8:11 #"Squirm" - 5:24 #"

Grace Is Gone ''Grace Is Gone'' is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by James C. Strouse in his directorial debut. It stars John Cusack as a father who cannot bring himself to tell his two daughters that their mother, a soldier in the U.S. Army, ...

" - 4:34 #"Alligator Pie" - 4:41 #"One Sweet World" - 5:37 #"Loving Wings" - 4:19 #" Grey Street" - 4:31 #"Kundalini Bonfire" - 4:43 #"Oh" - 2:59 #"Christmas Song" - 4:57 #"

Funny the Way It Is "Funny the Way It Is" is the first single from Dave Matthews Band's album ''Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King''. Matthews said that it "talks about the world of opposites that we are in." The single reached number 37 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 ( ...

" - 5:56 #"Stay or Leave" - 4:08 #"Shake Me Like a Monkey" - 4:24 #"Lying in the Hands of God" - 5:37

Disc two

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" - 8:44 #"

" - 7:13 #"So Damn Lucky" - 6:42 #"Little Red Bird" - 3:02 #"Save Me" - 4:19 #" You and Me" - 4:32 #"

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" - 7:45 #"Some Devil" - 4:28 #"

Typical Situation ''Under the Table and Dreaming'' is the debut studio album by the American rock band Dave Matthews Band, released on September 27, 1994. The album's first single was " What Would You Say", featuring John Popper of Blues Traveler on harmonica. Fou ...

" - 7:55 #"Sister" - 4:14 #" Two Step" - 7:58

Double Down bonus disc

Members of the DMB Warehouse who pre-ordered the "Live in Las Vegas" CD also received an eight-track bonus CD called "Double Down" containing songs from the first two shows at Planet Hollywood on December 10 and 11, 2009.

Track listing

#" The Stone" - 8:56 - 12/11/2009 #"Cornbread" - 5:00 - 12/11/2009 #"

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" - 4:07 - 12/10/2009 #"Rye Whiskey" - 3:25 - 12/11/2009 ---- #"#27" - 5:06 - 12/11/2009 #"Spaceman" - 5:21 - 12/10/2009 #"The Wayfarer" - 5:08 - 12/10/2009 #"Time Bomb" - 5:14 - 12/10/2009

Vinyl release

A 7" vinyl release of the song Squirm, with Lying in the Hands of God as the B-side was released on April 17, 2010, for

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Video releases

On June 25, 2010, "

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" (performed on the ''Live in Las Vegas'' live album) was released as a

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video for the official Dave Matthews Band

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app. On September 1, 2010, a video of " Grey Street" was released on the official app. For the 2010 holiday season, the ''Live in Las Vegas'' video of "Christmas Song" was released through the

website.

Grammy nomination

The piece "Kundalini Bonfire" was nominated for a

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in the category of

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but ultimately lost to the

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's " Hammerhead".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Live In Las Vegas (Dave Matthews And Tim Reynolds Album) 2010 live albums Dave Matthews live albums Tim Reynolds live albums RCA Records live albums Albums recorded at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino