When asked about his roots, Tim Reynolds will say, “I come from nowhere, mostly.”  He was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and spent his childhood on a farm in Indiana and an army base in Alaska, followed by stops in Kansas and Missouri. 

But though he may come from nowhere, mostly, his music comes from everywhere.  He started playing church music on bass guitar, but soon progressed to jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, disco, country, classical and metal, with influences from Jimi Hendrix and Peter Gabriel to Miles Davis and Aphex Twin, on instruments ranging from guitar, mandolin, sitar and violin to piano and djembe.  He’s performed acoustically and electrically, with loops and with overdubs.  If there’s musical terrain to explore, sign him up.

The explorations that took him away from home at 18 and around the country in a series of experimental bands eventually landed him in the thriving scene of Charlottesville, Virginia.  There, he formed TR3, and earned a reputation as a musical virtuoso.  One of the venues he frequently played in the late 1980s was Miller’s, where a young Dave Matthews was the bartender.  Reynolds told him. “‘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.”

Though Reynolds has never been an official member, he has appeared on numerous Dave Matthews Band releases, including Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash, and Before These Crowded Streets, and toured frequently with the group.  Tim and Dave have also toured together as an acoustic duo, and their 1999 disc, Live at Luther College, achieved multi-platinum success.