Live Trax is a live

Live album

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 compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of songs from the Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is a U.S. rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was...

's Live Trax series. The album was released on July 31, 2007, and is sold exclusively at Starbucks Coffee

Starbucks

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 locations. A total of nine tracks are featured on the compilation—one from each of the nine Live Trax volumes released between November 2004 and June 2007.

Promotion

The album was promoted by both Starbucks and XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio

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, along with the promotion of XM's new station, Starbucks XM Café

Starbucks XM Café

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. During the first month of the album's release, Starbucks featured in-store sweepstakes

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 for customers who signed up for an XM Radio trial, where they would be entered to win various prizes, including Dave Matthews Band concert tickets, and passes for a meet-and-greet session with Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews

David John "Dave" Matthews is a South African–born American musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band...

, himself. In addition to the sweepstakes, XM featured special episodes of the Starbucks XM Café radio show The Daily Grind, featuring highlights from the album during the entire week following the album's release.

Track listing

1. "Dancing Nancies"
   • from Live Trax Vol. 7
     Live Trax Vol. 7
     Live Trax Vol. 7 is the seventh release of the Dave Matthews Band's Live Trax series. This concert was recorded during the band's New Year's Run 1996 Tour on December 31, 1996 at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia...
     
     
2. "When the World Ends"
   • from Live Trax Vol. 8
     Live Trax Vol. 8
     Live Trax Vol. 8 is the eighth album in the Live Trax live album series by the Dave Matthews Band. The album was recorded on August 7, 2004 at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin. The show features the band's first, and to date, only performance of "Super Freak," played as a...
     
     
3. "Where Are You Going
   Where Are You Going
   "Where Are You Going" is the first single from Dave Matthews Band's album Busted Stuff. The single reached #38 on the Billboard Hot 100, #20 on the Modern Rock Tracks, and topped the Triple A chart. The song was featured in the 2002 Adam Sandler motion picture, Mr. Deeds. It is also featured on the...
   
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   • from Live Trax Vol. 2
     Live Trax Vol. 2
     Live Trax Vol. 2 is the second release of the Dave Matthews Band's Live Trax series. This show took place on the Polo Fields of Golden Gate Park on September 12, 2004 and was a benefit concert for Bay Area Charities. Carlos Santana sits in as a special guest for several songs, including the...
     
     
4. "You Might Die Trying"
   • from Live Trax Vol. 9
     Live Trax Vol. 9
     Live Trax Vol. 9 is the ninth live album released in the Dave Matthews Band Live Trax series. The four-disc live album was recorded at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada over a two-night span on March 23–24, 2007. The performance was the band's first show in 2007, after not having...
     
     
5. "#41
   41 (song)
   "#41" is a song by the Dave Matthews Band, featured on the 1996 album Crash.-Song history:"#41" was originally written by Dave Matthews as a reply to lawsuits brought forth by Ross Hoffman, a former associate and manager of the band...
   
   "
   • from Live Trax Vol. 4
     Live Trax Vol. 4
     Live Trax Vol. 4 is the fourth release of the Dave Matthews Band's Live Trax series. It is a two-disc set released on September 2, 2005 featuring the band's concert in Richmond, Virginia on April 30, 1996. This show was the release party for the Dave Matthews Band album Crash which was released...
     
     
6. "Don't Drink the Water"
   • from Live Trax Vol. 6
     Live Trax Vol. 6
     Live Trax Vol. 6, unofficially known as Live at Fenway Park, is the sixth installment in the Dave Matthews Band Live Trax series. It features a four disc set of the band's two night performance at Fenway Park in Boston from July 7 and 8, 2006...
     
     
7. "Grace Is Gone"
   • from Live Trax Vol. 3
     Live Trax Vol. 3
     Live Trax Vol. 3 is the third release of the Dave Matthews Band's Live Trax series. This concert was recorded on August 27, 2000 at the Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut...
     
     
8. "Pantala Naga Pampa
   Pantala Naga Pampa
   "Pantala Naga Pampa" is the first track on the Dave Matthews Band's album, Before These Crowded Streets.The song is the shortest track recorded by the band in the studio and was based on an old live song known as "What Will Become of Me?" part of which can be heard at the end of "Jimi Thing" on...
   
   " » "Rapunzel
   Rapunzel (song)
   "Rapunzel" is the second track and was the last single of the Dave Matthews Band 1998 album, Before These Crowded Streets. It is featured on the Dave Matthews Band compilation album The Best of What's Around Vol. 1....
   
   "
   • from Live Trax Vol. 1
     Live Trax Vol. 1
     Live Trax Vol. 1 is the first release of the Dave Matthews Band's Live Trax series. This two-disc set was released on November 2, 2004 and features the band's live performance at the former Centrum Centre in Worcester, MA on December 8, 1998....
     
     
9. "Tripping Billies
   Tripping Billies
   "Tripping Billies" is a song by the Dave Matthews Band, released as the fifth single from the album Crash. It originally debuted on their independent release Remember Two Things. It reached #18 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart...
   
   "
   • from Live Trax Vol. 5
     Live Trax Vol. 5
     Live Trax Vol. 5 is the fifth release of the Dave Matthews Band's Live Trax series. This concert was recorded on August 23, 1995 at the Meadow Brook Music Festival at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. The show is notable for a twelve minute version of "Exodus", a rarity among the...