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- Summary: The rock band's latest album was produced by Rob Cavallo and is its first album without saxophonist LeRoi Moore, who died in the summer of 2008.
- Record Label: RCA
- Genre(s): Rock
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You & Me | |
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Wanna pack your bags, Something small Take what you need and we disappear Without a trace we'll be gone, gone The moon and the stars can follow the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 8 out of 15
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Mixed: 7 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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What makes Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King the Dave Matthews Band's richest, and quite possibly best, album is the implicit message that all the love and loss can be felt and shared through the music, that the creation of the music itself is the reason why they're here--and that's not just a moving tribute to LeRoi Moore, it's a reason for the band to keep moving on.
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This eulogy is a celebration, and Big Whiskey is a dense, humid album that, befitting its New Orleans origins, shrewdly cuts its melancholy with exuberance and vice versa.
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Big Whiskey, though, is a lot like a New Orleans funeral parade--mourning and zest balled into big, brawny music.
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While the band takes some sonic risks and shows continued versatility on songs like 'Alligator Pie (Cockadile),' the album is saddled with some of the same leaden production values that have dogged the latter half of the band’s recorded career.
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Given the musically versatile, vaunted band behind it, Big Whiskey, for all its stylistic reach and array of textures, is frequently beset with a curious bout of blandness.
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MojoAlthough every other verse here is filled by paradiddles, polyrhythms and wilfully complex time signatures, DMB's ear for a tune at least provides us with some fine choruses. [Jul 2009, p.94]
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UncutToo often they sound like Sting fronting Counting Crows. [Jul 2009, p.93]
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Positive: 12 out of 18
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Mixed: 4 out of 18
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Negative: 2 out of 18
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SeanRisherJun 7, 2009The Band did it with this one!
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ChrisMJun 15, 2009This album carries with it an implicit message of love and humanity that makes it the most mature DMB yet.
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Oct 12, 2010
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JohnMJun 4, 2009
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MattH-CJun 9, 2009
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Jan 11, 2014
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GregAJun 3, 2009
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