Tribe of Heaven is a collaboration between Mark Roebuck

Mark Roebuck

Mark Roebuck is a composer and musician living in Charlottesville, Virginia. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Roebuck originally moved to Charlottesville in the late 1970s to attend the University of Virginia....

 and 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...

, recorded in 1989.

Dave Matthews was a fellow bartender

Bartender

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 to Mark Roebuck, and assisted Roebuck in writing and recording an entire album. Nine folk rock

Folk rock

Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...

 songs were recorded during the Tribe of Heaven project, including five written solely by Roebuck, three by Roebuck and Matthews, and a cover of U2

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

's "In God's Country

In God's Country

"In God's Country" was a difficult song for the band to record, which they put down to not being trained musicians, and they do not speak overly highly of it. During The Joshua Tree sessions, they knew it was not going be one of their best songs but they needed more up-tempo songs...

." The tracks were recorded at the studio in Greg Howard

Greg Howard

Greg Howard is a Chapman Stick player from Charlottesville, Virginia. Originally a keyboardist and saxophonist, Greg took up the Stick in 1985...

's home in Scottsville, Virginia

Scottsville, Virginia

Scottsville is a town in Albemarle and Fluvanna counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 555 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

 during two separate sessions in 1989. Howard played keyboards

Electronic keyboard

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 on "Imagine We Were" and "Half the Time," and Mike Rosenski played guitar

Guitar

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 on "Touch."

Imagine We Were was offered to various record label

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s in early 1990, but was turned down. Matthews went on to form 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...

 the next year, and included a Tribe of Heaven song, "The Song That Jane Likes," on the band's first album, Remember Two Things

Remember Two Things

Remember Two Things is an album by Dave Matthews Band, released independently on the band's Bama Rags label in 1993. This was the only release where the band was referred to as "The Dave Matthews Band." It was reissued by RCA Records on June 24, 1997 and was certified platinum by the RIAA in 2002...

.

Imagine We Were

Below is a track listing of Tribe of Heaven's only album, Imagine We Were, released in 2005, over 15 years after its initial recording.

1. "Simple Thing"
2. "In God's Country
   In God's Country
   "In God's Country" was a difficult song for the band to record, which they put down to not being trained musicians, and they do not speak overly highly of it. During The Joshua Tree sessions, they knew it was not going be one of their best songs but they needed more up-tempo songs...
   
   "
3. "The Song That Jane Likes"
4. "Imagine We Were"
5. "Touch"
6. "Waves Drift Ashore"
7. "One War"
8. "Half the Time"
9. "Subway"