The Dave Matthews Band wound up Bonnaroo for the jam-band faithful, still head-bobbing and flinging glowsticks after four days.

I miss the old Dave Matthews Band. That was the eccentric five-piece lineup of acoustic guitar (Mr. Matthews), violin (Boyd Tinsley), electric bass (Stefan Lessard), drums (Carter Beauford) and saxophone (LeRoi Moore, who died in 2008). With only one chordal instrument, the guitar, that lineup forced itself to come up with inventive ways to do what most rock bands take for granted. And it did, devising nimble, pointillistic arrangements that could lean toward country or acoustic funk, Celtic music or jazz. Mr. Matthews’ songwriting — visions of trouble, battles with inner demons and openly amorous vows of love, full of zigzagging tunes and meter shifts — was inseparable from the sound of the band.

Even before Mr. Moore’s death, the band was adding keyboards and backup singers to its onstage lineup. Now, the touring group includes a saxophone (Jeff Coffin), trumpet (Rashawn Ross) and electric guitar (Tim Reynolds, who also has a long-running duo with Mr. Matthews). Two more horn players joined them for some songs at Bonnaroo, to make the sound “a little bit fatter,” Mr. Matthews said. “I hope you don’t mind.”

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