I know.  I haven’t been blogging.  I haven’t been tweeting.  But don’t worry….I’m still here!  There are lots of things happening over at Basically Becky! I recently completed the Richard York Shoes website redesign, and some new twitter backgrounds,  I am currently working on a new design for this site, as well as launching a new site, DMBStuff.com, dedicated strictly to Dave Matthews Band.  That site is currently live with all of my DMB blog posts, but a new design will be coming soon.  So now you know why I haven’t been blogging and tweeting.  A girl does need sleep once in a while.   I promise I will be back soon….and better than ever!

If you are going to buy any merchandise from the DMB Store soon, make sure to do it in the next 24 hours and all proceeds go to the Bama Works Haiti Relief Fund.  From the Dave Matthews Band official website:

DMB/WAREHOUSE STORE PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT BAMA WORKS HAITI RELIEF FUND
Dave Matthews Band, in an initiative to assist in providing long-term support to the people of the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti, has established the Bama Works Haiti Relief Fund. A 5-song EP entitled The Haiti Relief Project as well as a new, limited edition T-shirt featuring album cover art will be available tomorrow with proceeds benefiting the relief fund. The digital download will be available at DMBLive.com for $5. In addition, all proceeds from merchandise sales* in the Warehouse and DMB official stores for 24 hours – from 12 noon ET on Friday, January 29th to 12 noon ET on Saturday January 30th – will go to the Relief Fund.

THE HAITI RELIEF PROJECT EP Track Listing
BUTTERFLY 08.28.2007 / Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Kansas City / Bonner Springs, KS (Dave solo)
CRY FREEDOM 07.31.2004 / Sound Advice Amphitheatre / West Palm Beach, FL
OUT OF MY HANDS 07.19.2009 Alpine Valley Music Theatre / East Troy, WI
LYING IN THE HANDS OF GOD / 06.12.2009 / Saratoga Performing Arts Center / Saratoga Springs, NY
DIVE IN / 09.10.2009 / Greek Theatre / Los Angeles, CA

*excludes music and video with the exception of the Haiti Relief Project EP download

SONG NOTES:
The collection kicks off with “Butterfly,” a solemn, yet uplifting version written for the film Because of Winn Dixie and performed solo by Dave. It’s followed by a 2004 version of “Cry Freedom” featuring a powerful performance from LeRoi Moore. Three rousing songs captured on the band’s 2009 summer tour – “Out Of My Hands,” “Lying In The Hands Of God” and “Dive In” are also included.

THANKS: We’d like to extend an enormous thanks to Adam Larson with Adam+Company who generously donated the artwork for the shirt and EP as well as the Ants Marching staff for helping us select the versions of the tracks. Thanks to Musictoday for providing the download service for the cause.

Make sure to check out these other recent DMB posts on Basically Becky: 2010 Summer Tour Dates, Hope for Haiti Performance, Music for Relief Download.