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Cry Freedom

Album: Crash
Times Fully Played: 183
Live Releases: 16
Broadcasts: 13
Date Last Played: 11.17.23 (123 days ago)
Shortest Version: 2:42 (11.03.92)
Longest Version: 8:56 (05.22.13)

Aborted Count : 1
Aborted* Count : 1
Tease Count : 8

Opener Count : 3
Set 2 Opener Count : 1
Encore Count : 27

Liberated 3 times:
7.10.996.18.03 (after 1439 days)
3.27.056.5.10 (after 1896 days)
9.3.168.21.22 (after 2178 days)
Hands and feet are all alike
Composer
Matthews (1996)
Song History
This powerful ballad was around since the very beginning where it featured Dave Solo to start out and then the band joining in. It was finally recorded in the studio and released on the "Crash" album; heavily produced and electrified. Its most popular runs were the fall of 1994, the encore features on the Dave and Tim '96 tour. After 1996, the song dropped off into a rarity and was the rarest song on the Summer '97 tour. After being completely missing in action in 1998, the song experienced a small revival in '99, but then dropped off in 2000 and 2001. However, as teases in the Spring 2002 tour showed, the song was surely not dead. It returned as a Dave solo in the Summer Tour, and full on in 2003.

Studio personnel:
Tim Reynolds - guitar
Lyrics:
Color Legend
Show Type
Dave & Friends  (4)
Dave & Tim  (40)
Dave Solo  (2)
DMB  (145)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo  (1)
Personnel
Dave Solo  (19)
Dave and Tim  (42)
Boyd Tinsley  (115)
Carter Beauford  (121)
Dave Matthews  (131)
LeRoi Moore  (104)
Peter Griesar  (18)
Stefan Lessard  (125)
Branford Marsalis  (1)
Buddy Strong  (5)
Butch Taylor  (35)
Carlos Malta  (1)
Jeff Coffin  (15)
Rashawn Ross  (10)
Stanley Jordan  (1)
Tim Reynolds  (21)
1991
3.14
8.21
8.31
9.20
10.22
11.26
1992
2.13
5.2
5.5
5.6
5.13
6.17
7.28
9.29
9.30
10.14
11.3
11.17
12.28
12.29
12.31
1993
2.16
2.17
3.3
5.25
6.16
6.17
7.6
aborted
1994
2.21
5.4
10.9
10.11
10.12
10.14
10.15
10.15
10.16
10.18
10.20
10.21
10.26
10.27
10.27
10.28
11.8
11.9
11.14
11.17
11.19
11.23
11.29
12.8
12.16
1995
2.2
2.12
12.28
12.29
1996
2.1
2.6
2.8
2.9
2.10
2.11
2.13
2.14
2.16
2.17
2.18
2.19
4.29
4.30
5.11
5.14
6.4
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.11
6.12
6.14
6.15
6.16
6.19
9.4
10.18
10.22
10.25
10.29
11.13
11.20
12.16
1997
1.21
1.23
2.18
2.21
6.18
1998
1999
1.26
2.2
2.3
2.6
2.28
6.19
6.22
6.28
7.10
2000
2001
2002
tease
tease
tease
tease
tease
tease
7.25
7.28
9.7
2003
3.19
3.20
3.22
3.28
3.29
aborted*
4.4
5.5
6.18
6.20
6.21
6.23
6.27
6.30
7.5
7.9
7.12
7.15
7.16
7.24
8.2
8.5
8.8
8.25
8.30
9.2
9.5
9.8
9.11
9.13
9.16
9.20
12.20
12.22
2004
1.12
tease
7.2
7.7
7.17
7.31
8.4
9.5
10.2
10.6
10.8
2005
3.21
3.27
10.28
2006
10.28
2007
2.27
2008
4.11
2009
2010
6.5
6.8
6.16
6.30
7.14
11.3
11.10
2011
2012
2013
5.22
5.31
6.6
2014
tease
10.18
2015
7.4
7.26
7.31
2016
9.3
2017
1.25
2018
1.14
2019
2.16
2020
7.3
2021
2022
8.21
2023
2.19
8.25
9.1
11.11
11.17
2024
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