**Big Whiskey and The GrooGrux King**

[Nitro1515]

Yeah I get that. When I heard the Leroi sax intro on that video, I was pumped. It sounded like a return to form...and then cue cheesy horns!

Seriously, Rashawn is just the worst

[RunsWithBuffalo]

Yeah I get that. When I heard the Leroi sax intro on that video, I was pumped. It sounded like a return to form...and then cue cheesy horns!

Seriously, Rashawn is just the worst

I mean I like horns, but that sounds like the Talking Heads playing trumpet on a synthesizer.

[mattinbeloit]

Yeah I get that. When I heard the Leroi sax intro on that video, I was pumped. It sounded like a return to form...and then cue cheesy horns!

Seriously, Rashawn is just the worst

I mean I like horns, but that sounds like the Talking Heads playing trumpet on a synthesizer.

It's because they recorded them so dead. I kept thinking that they were going to open them up and the clip in there was a rough mix, but judging from the single it sounds like Cavallo is going to keep the record pretty dry which IMO is not a good idea for DMB.

[RunsWithBuffalo]

Very dry. I hear it in Tim's electric on Funny the way it is.

[Nitro1515]

Official Tracklisting

1. Grux
2. Shake Me Like A Monkey
3. Funny The Way It Is
4. Lying In The Hands Of God
5. Why I Am
6. Dive In
7. Spaceman
8. Squirm
9. Alligator Pie (Cockadile)
10. Seven
11. Time Bomb
12. My Baby Blue
13. You and Me

Full pre-order info:
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND OFFERS FREE DOWNLOAD OF "FUNNY THE WAY IT IS," FIRST SINGLE FROM THE GROUP'S UPCOMING ALBUM, BIG WHISKEY AND THE GROOGRUX KING

Record Scheduled For June 2nd Release; Fans Who Pre-Order Through www.davematthewsband.com Will Receive Live Trax 15 As A Bonus

Band Launches Spring Tour Tonight With Show At Madison Square Garden;
June 5th "TODAY" Show Performance Confirmed

Today Dave Matthews and Stefan Lessard announced via their Twitter accounts (@davejmatthews and @slessard) the premiere of "Funny The Way It Is," the lead single from Dave Matthews Band's upcoming album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King. Fans can download the track for free for a week beginning today at the band's website, http://www.davematthewsband.com. "Funny The Way It Is" will be for sale at digital retailers thereafter.

Dave Matthews Band kicks off its 2009 tour tonight with a show at Madison Square Garden in New York City and will be on the road through October 2nd. Please visit http://www.davematthewsband.com for a full itinerary of the band's spring and summer tours - and also check the website for the launch of the Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King pre-order later this week. Fans who pre-order the CD at the band's website will receive the group's upcoming live album, Live Trax 15, for free. Live Trax 15 captures the group's August 9th, 2008 show at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, WI, one of the most fan-requested shows for release from last year's summer tour.

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, the band's first studio album in four years, will be released on June 2nd by RCA Records. On Friday, June 5th, Dave Matthews Band will perform on NBC's "TODAY" show on Rockefeller Plaza, marking the first morning television appearance in the band's career.

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."

When the remaining members regrouped in a New Orleans, LA studio in early 2009 to complete the album, they found they were able to integrate much of the material Moore had recorded during their 2008 sessions in Charlottesville, VA and Seattle, WA. "It's so powerful to have Roi here with us for one last time on an album," says violin player Boyd Tinsley. Guitarist Tim Reynolds, trumpeter Rashawn Ross and saxophonist Jeff Coffin also played on the album and will join the band on tour.

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," which went on to note: "Throughout, Carter Beauford beats out elaborate, propulsive groves; bassist Stefan Lessard lays down Flea-style funk bass lines; violinist Boyd Tinsley plays cresting, intense runs; and Matthews mirrors Moore's saxophone lines with scatlike singing." 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.

Big Whiskey is the follow-up to 2005's Stand Up, the fourth consecutive Dave Matthews Band studio album to enter The Billboard 200 at No. 1. It will be available in three versions: standard, deluxe (with Scenes from Big Whiskey, a documentary on the making of the album) and super-deluxe, which includes bonus tracks, a photo book and lithographs in addition to the CD and documentary. Check out http://www.billboard.com for an exclusive preview of footage from Scenes from Big Whiskey.

[GSR]

I like this song a lot. Definitely way more effort than any Stand Up song. There's a lot more to it, violin solo, guitar solo, quite a few different sections, lyrics are not bad at all.

I'm listening for the third time with headphones. I'm quite pleased. The production is really slick, of course, but what're ya gonna do.

I give it a . And the tracklist looks great.

[Coldchillin]

I can't find the preorder through their website.

[jsgksu]

Rolling Stone calling it their best album = this album is already dead to me

[GSR]

So does Billboard.

[jsgksu]

I don't know about Billboards validity, but RS has some of the worst musical opinions I've ever heard.

I was kidding about the album being dead to me, but that endorsement doesn't make me very excited. I did however like the single so we'll see.

[Buck]

I kept expecting this verse:

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late.
Funny The Way It Is...don't you think

[Nitro1515]

RS gave more stars to SU than BTCS, thats pretty much all you need to know about them

[Blake]

I gave it three listens at various times during my lunch break and I dig this song a lot. If the rest of the album is like this, I'll be happy

[Nitro1515]

I gotta say the lyrics on this are pretty weak after multiple listens outside of a few good lines here and there.

[GSR]

I think they're fine. Much better than anything on Stand Up.

The song's a good length, too. Much more depth and dynamics.