Dave Matthews Band Releases Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King

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Date: 05/29/2009 From: davematthewsband.com Submitted By: Flyer Email This To Someone

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, the first studio album from the Dave Matthews Band in four years, is now available. With its celebratory spirit and lyrical ruminations on fragile mortality, the album pays tribute to saxophonist LeRoi Moore, the band's fallen partner. Moore passed away in the summer of 2008 while the group was on tour and midway through making the album. "When Roi died, it shook the whole band and left us saying, ‘What do we do now?'" recalls Matthews. "We knew that first of all, we had to finish this record that he was already in love with. So all of us went back in with the attitude ‘We can't mess around with this one, because this one is an ode."


Produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance), Big Whiskey has been hailed by Rolling Stone as the group's "heaviest album yet, both musically and emotionally." Billboard, in a cover story on Dave Matthews Band, praised Big Whiskey as "its best album yet….Highlights include the funk-rock rave-up ‘Shake Me,' the stirring ballad ‘In the Hands of God,' the swampy rocker ‘Cockadile,' radio-friendly fare like ‘Why I Am,' which features playful horns over a solid rock riff and a hooky chorus, and ‘Funny the Way It Is,' which parlays a subtle intro into a soaring, syncopated anthem."


Matthews created all of the artwork for Big Whiskey, including the richly detailed cover illustration that puts a GrooGrux spin on New Orleans' traditional Mardi Gras parades while evoking the joy and the sorrow expressed in the album's songs. Matthews has designed logos and other elements in the past, but this is the first time he has created the entire packaging for a Dave Matthews Band album. For a limited time, fans can have fun unscrambling the cover at http://www.davematthewsband.com.


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