Tim Reynolds

Tim Reynolds (born 15 December 1957) is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist known as both a solo artist and as lead guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. AllMusic critic MacKenzie Wilson has called Reynolds "an under-rated master".

Reynolds plays the guitar, piano, sitar, drums, violin, bass, keyboards, ethnic percussive instruments, solo djembe, harp, uses drum machines for special effects, and sings, although his performances are primarily instrumental rock music. As well as being the founding member of the band TR3, while he was a regular performer at Miller's, a bar in Charlottesville, Virginia, he befriended and encouraged the bartender, a young Dave Matthews, to form a band of his own, introducing him to local musicians, several of whom make up the Dave Matthews Band. While Reynolds long declined the offer to join as an official member, he recorded and toured as a sideman with the Dave Matthews Band from its inception until late 1998, joining them as a permanent member in June 2008. He often tours with Dave Matthews as an acoustic duo in addition to performing as a member of Dave Matthews & Friends.

Early years

Reynolds was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, where his father, who served in the U.S. Army, was stationed. He says he hails from nowhere, because the family moved so often. His family lived many places, including Germany, a farm in Indiana, an army base in Alaska, Kansas, and Missouri, where he lived longer than any other place until he was old enough to move away as an adult. Both parents were extremely devout Christians and he says he grew up with Christian music all around him. However, his older sister owned some albums from the Beatles, which he says, even as a very young child, he loved instantly, playing air guitar to their music.

Upon reaching adolescence, Reynolds learned guitar and bass guitar, so he could perform in the family's local church choir three times a week, Reynolds explains: I played there [Miller's in Charlottesville] all the time. Dave Matthews was the bartender. I knew the rest of his [future] band way before that. We played together in Charlottesville since I moved there in 1981. I would play with LeRoi Moore and Carter Beauford. Dave moved to town in 1987. When the Dave Matthews Band started (1991), I already had my own band (TR3). I told him (Matthews), "I've got a band and I kind of like the way it is. You should start your band." I could see that he needed to do his own thing. The Radio City show was also released in high definition on Blu-ray.

In 2008, Reynolds once again joined Dave Matthews Band for the recording of Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King with producer Rob Cavallo. It was Reynolds's first recording collaboration with Matthews since 2003's Some Devil and his first with the Dave Matthews Band since 1998's Before These Crowded Streets.

Reynolds and Matthews performed together several times in April 2008: in support of Presidential candidate Barack Obama, at the "Seeds of Compassion" show in Seattle and at Jack Johnson's Kokua Festival at the Waikiki Shell on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii.

Reynolds toured as lead guitarist with the Dave Matthews Band in support of Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King in 2009. As of the summer/fall tour of 2023, he is still a full-time member of the Dave Matthews Band.

Dave Matthews and Friends

Following the release of Dave Matthews' first solo album, Some Devil, Matthews brought together many of the album's collaborators and embarked on a small winter 2003/2004 U.S. tour. The group consisted of Trey Anastasio (of Phish) on guitar, Brady Blade on drums, Tony Hall on bass, Ray Paczkowski on keys, and Reynolds on guitar. Each show opened with a small acoustic Matthews and Reynolds set, and then followed with the full-band set with Reynolds performing on electric guitar. Most of Some Devil was played live that tour, along with a wide variety of covers, including, by Reynolds' request, Peter Gabriel's hit "Solsbury Hill".

Dave Matthews & Friends performed occasional shows again in 2004, 2005, and 2006. In 2008, Reynolds joined the Dave Matthews Band on their summer North American tour, and scheduled to rejoin them on their Spring 2009 North American tour.

Both Matthews and Reynolds have an open taping policy that additionally extends to TR3.

Charity Reynolds and Matthews performed on a 2008 album called Songs for Tibet, an initiative to support Tibet and Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and to underline the human rights violations allegedly committed against Tibet by China. On 4 October 2009 Reynolds performed with Matthews in St. Louis, Missouri to support Farm Aid in 2009 and again in Hartford, Connecticut on 22 September 2018.

Personal life

Reynolds has a son Josef, born in February 1982 with his ex-wife, Linna. In 1995, he and then-girlfriend Diane Thomas had a daughter, Eura. They resided in New Mexico with her son Justin Bileyu. In 2008, Thomas moved with their children to North Carolina. Tim followed, to be near his daughter Eura. He currently resides in North Carolina, after living for 17 years in Virginia and several years in New Mexico. On 1 August 2017, Reynolds married Kristin Nienkirchen in Turks and Caicos.

Discography Studio albums 1993 – Stream 1997 – Sanctuary 1999 – Astral Projection 2000 – See into Your Soul 2000 – Stream (re-release) 2001 – Nomadic Wavelength 2001 – ID – From the Lab (vol one) 2002 – Petroglyph 2005 – Parallel Universe 2010 – The Limbic System 2016 – That Way 2020 - ‘’Venus Transit’’ 2021 - ‘’Soul Pilgrimage’’

Live albums 1996 – Gossip of the Neurons 2002 – Chaos View

As TR3 1988 – TR3 1991 – Shifting Currents 1995 – Light Up Ahead 1995 – Dear Charlottesville 1995 – Comin' After You 2009 – Radiance 2011 – Live from SPACE and Beyond 2014 – Like Some Kind of Alien Invasion 2019 - "The Sea Versus the Mountain"

As Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds 1999 – Live at Luther College 2007 – Live at Radio City 2008 – DMBLive – Prism Coffeehouse Charlottesville, VA 4/22/1993 2009 – DMBLive – Appalachian State University Boone, NC 3/29/2003 2010 – Live in Las Vegas 2012 – Live Trax Vol. 23 2012 – Live Trax Vol. 24 2012 – Live Trax Vol. 41 2012 – DMBLive – Memphis, Richmond, VA 6/13/1993 2014 – DMBLive – J.T. Kingsbury Hall Salt Lake City, UT 3/3/1999 2019 – Live Trax Vol. 48 2019 – Live Trax Vol. 49

With Dave Matthews Band 1993 – Remember Two Things 1994 – Recently 1994 – Under the Table and Dreaming 1996 – Crash 1997 – Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95 1998 – Before These Crowded Streets 2001 – Live in Chicago 12.19.98 2004 – Live Trax Vol. 1 2008 – Live Trax Vol. 13 2008 – Live at Mile High Music Festival 2008 – Live Trax Vol. 14 2009 – Live Trax Vol. 15 2009 – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King 2009 – Europe 2009 2010 – Live in New York City 2010 – Live Trax Vol. 19 2011 – Live at Wrigley Field 2011 – Live in Atlantic City 2012 – Live Trax Vol. 22 2012 – Away from the World 2018 – Come Tomorrow 2019 – Live at the Hollywood Bowl 2023 – Walk Around The Moon

Awards Grammys 2010: Album of the Year – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (as featured artist) – Nominated 2011: Best Rock Instrumental Performance – "Kundalini Bonfire" – Nominated