▷▷ Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King by Dave Matthews

More audio from the new album

2009-05-15T09:24:00.000-07:00

Track 1: Grux

Track 2: Shake Me Like a Monkey

Track 3: Funny The Way It Is

Track 5: Why I Am

Track 7: Spaceman

Track 10: Seven

Bonus Track 2: Beach Ball

Funny The Way It Is - audio / mp3 / video on youtube

2009-04-14T23:21:00.000-07:00

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2009-04-10T16:00:00.001-07:00

Dave Matthews Band - Inside The Studio for Big Whiskey

2009-03-31T22:37:00.000-07:00

Sounds pretty cool!

This new song to was overheard from the recording studio. For more information visit: www.bigwhiskeygroogruxking.com This is from the song "Why I Am" Credit: Antsmarching.org ( youtube.com )

Dave Matthews and crew confirmed the title and release date of their next album

2009-03-26T21:41:00.001-07:00

Dave Matthews and crew have just confirmed the title and release date of their next album. Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King is the name of the disc and will be the group's first studio album since their 2005 release, Stand Up. This will also be the group's first release since the passing of founding member and saxophonist LeRoi Moore last August. While the new album features recordings by Moore, Jeff Coffin, who is known for his work with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, has recently announced his joining of the Dave Matthews Band and will be touring with them starting on April 14th at Madison Square Garden. Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King drops on June 2nd and was named as a nod to LeRoi Moore and his nickname, Groogrux.

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2009-03-16T16:18:00.000-07:00

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Everyday

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Before These Crowded Streeet

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Crash

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Under the Table and Dreaming

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Live at Radio City

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Weekend on the Rocks

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The Gorge

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The Central Park Concert

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Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado

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Live in Chicago 12.19.98

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Listener Supported

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▷▷ Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King Reviews

2009-03-16T16:04:00.002-07:00

More reviews will be posted when they are available...Stay Tuned!

Entertainment Weekly by Leah Greenblatt

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Review

For all the immortality it imparts, rock & roll has a way of taking its practitioners before their time. Like the Who, Metallica, and many more before them, the Dave Matthews Band have faced the sudden loss of a founding member: Saxophonist LeRoi Moore died last August from injuries incurred in an ATV accident, midway through the recording of their latest album. His spirit — and his sound — looms large, however, on Big Whiskey. The GrooGrux King of the title references Moore, as does the figure at the center of Whiskey's intricate cover art (drawn by Matthews himself); his sweet, solitary sax flourishes even bookend the album.

Moore's death is also undoubtedly the reason that a group best known for its jammy, freewheeling geniality floats some uncharacteristically heavy vibes here, resulting in several jarring tonal shifts. The tense, mournful ''Time Bomb,'' foreboding ''Squirm,'' and dopey philosophy-lite lead single, ''Funny the Way It Is,'' all reflect — with varying success — on the vagaries of fate, while the swamp-rocky ''Alligator Pie'' puzzlingly alternates grim references to Hurricane Katrina and shout-outs to one of Matthews' young daughters. When the focus turns romantic, and at times even explicitly sexual, the horn-laden ''Shake Me Like a Monkey'' and salacious ''Seven'' play rowdy yin to the tender, intimate yang of ''You and Me'' and ''My Baby Blue.'' Throughout, the spectre of death rarely recedes, but life — embodied by the proto-DMB revelry of ''Why I Am'' — still prevails.

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Rolling Stone by David Fricke

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Review

Saxophonist LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band was a famously taciturn man. Moore, who died last August at 46 of complications from injuries suffered in an off-road-vehicle accident on his farm in Virginia, never spoke onstage — not at any DMB show I saw, anyway — and declined to be interviewed for stories about the group. When I wrote about the Dave Matthews Band for a Rolling Stone cover story in 2002, Moore avoided even saying hello. A founding member of one of America's best-selling bands, he was also spectacularly successful at minding his own business.

Matthews, who drew the richly detailed artwork for this record, knew a different Moore. On the cover of Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, DMB's seventh studio album, Matthews portrays Moore as a giant laughing head on a Mardi Gras float, leading the delirium on a French Quarter street. And Matthews opens the record with a sparkling evocation: the sound of Moore's piercing alto sax dancing atop drummer Carter Beauford's eruptive rolls and Stefan Lessard's humming bass in the brief instrumental "Grux." A still, stocky presence in concert, like an upright bear in corkscrew dreads, Moore was a nimble, lusty player on his various horns, threading Matthews' vocal melodies and Boyd Tinsley's violin runs with jazzy intuition and funky punctuations.

Moore died early in the sessions for Big Whiskey, before the bulk of the album was made with producer Rob Cavallo in New Orleans last winter. (The album credits do not specify which tracks Moore played on; Jeff Coffin of Bela Fleck's Flecktones also plays sax here, and now on the road with DMB as well.) The sudden loss hangs over this record's startling punch like one of that city's humid summer rains. "Still here dancing with the GrooGrux King," Matthews declares on "Why I Am," tenaciously holding on to Moore's memory. More typical, though, are references like the "soldier's last breath" in "Funny the Way It Is" and Matthews' blunt fatalism in "Spaceman": "Doesn't everyone deserve to have the good life?/But it don't always work out." "Squirm" is straight-up doomsday. "Out there, no food, no drink/How many days do you think you'd last?" Matthews sings, then throws down a growling challenge at the end: "If kindness is your king/Then heaven will be yours before you meet your end." It's as if his way of coping with Moore's passing is by contemplating everyone else's.

Matthews also roasts most of his conclusions with hot rusted electric guitars, played by himself and his longtime collaborator Tim Reynolds. It is a new wrinkle for a DMB studio album, and one too long in coming. The group's first big records, such as 1996's Crash and 1998's Before These Crowded Streets, were never as compelling to me as the live shows — particularly the spiraling sax-and-violin ascents propelled by Beauford and Lessard's fusion of funk and African rhythms — mostly because of the airy center left by Matthews' acoustic rhythm guitar. Cavallo, working with DMB for the first time, has brought some of the classic-rock edge of his hit records with Green Day and My Chemical Romance to Matthews' arena-size spin on early-Seventies Traffic, like the power-chord punctuation and slithering-fuzz flourishes behind Matthews' bad-news snarl in "Squirm."

Matthews and the band also bend the rock to their will. The hearty guitars and cackling brass in "Shake Me Like a Monkey" go perfectly with Matthews' blatant comic lust: "I like my coffee with toast and jelly/But I'd rather be licking from your back to your belly." (That he doesn't say exactly how he expects to get from one to the other means you will probably be able to buy this album at Walmart.) "Funny the Way It Is" is a busy, catchy bundle of tension and release, with Tinsley's violin slicing across the band's cut-and-thrust and a grunting riff in the bridge that gets under your skin like another chorus. For much of "Time Bomb," Matthews sings about his anger with grumbling restraint, in a nervous quiet — silver dots of soprano sax, soft, curdling organ, hovering violin. But when he finally blows up, Matthews shreds his voice like Eddie Vedder against a brick wall of Pearl Jam — a startling compact thrill, lasting only a minute and change, that sounds exactly like a guy losing control just when he needs it most.

The most aggressive instrument on "Alligator Pie (Cockadile)" is actually a banjo, played with locomotive relish by Danny Barnes, with Matthews scatting overhead, dodging Tinsley's scathing violin. The song is a prayer for New Orleans, still drowning in need nearly four years after Katrina ("Grace is all I'm asking/When will grace return?"). But when Matthews sings about all that's gone there now, it's hard not to hear Moore's spirit passing by as well: "All the things we wanted/Everything that was sure/Now there is a scar."

Big Whiskey, though, is a lot like a New Orleans funeral parade — mourning and zest balled into big, brawny music. "We'll be drinking big whiskey while we dance and sing," Matthews crows in "Why I Am." "And when my story ends, it's gonna end with him/Heaven or hell/I'm going down with the GrooGrux King." I'm betting on heaven — and that Moore will be quietly waiting for him.

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Detroit Free Press

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Review

The Dave Matthews Band lost one of its founding members last August when saxophonist LeRoi Moore died of injuries he suffered in an ATV accident, lending special gravity to DMB's new album "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King" (***, out June 2 on RCA). A haunting solo from Moore ("Grux") opens the album, leading into the funky, Prince-influenced "Shake Me Like a Monkey."

Although much of "Big Whiskey" sounds like typical DMB fare -- brash, feel-good, stadium-rock anthems impeccably played -- there are undercurrents of more serious themes, especially the life-and-death scenarios described on "Funny the Way It Is." Also poignant is "Why I Am," where Matthews remembers his friend Moore, a.k.a. the GrooGrux King, with great emotion.

The Dave Matthews Band plays at DTE Energy Music Theatre on July 28.

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Spin

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Review

Jam-band kings bulk up, rock through sadness. The first sound you hear on the new Dave Matthews Band album is the bleat of LeRoi Moore's saxophone -- appropriate for a disc titled in honor of the founding member, who died unexpectedly last August following a freak ATV accident. GrooGrux is harder edged and more bottom heavy than DMB's usual fare, undoubtedly due to the band's decision to work with Green Day and My Chemical Romance producer Rob Cavallo, but probably also a result of the grief suffered by Moore's surviving bandmates. A fond, funky farewell.

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Bob Lefsetz

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Review

U2 put out a single no one liked. Radio rejected it, and so did casual listeners. Only a small coterie of fans thought it was good. What was the point?

U2 had an impression that we still live in a monoculture, that everybody's paying attention to the game. I GET IT! You want to do something left field, so you can't be pigeonholed. You want to be known for risk-taking. But who's paying attention?

Very few. I know you hate to admit this. But EVERYBODY'S a niche today. There are no mass cultural events other than the Super Bowl. Citizens might like to go to Coachella or Bonnaroo, but most people are just fine missing them. No one's lying about attending the first Coachella, most people don't even know what year it took place.

As for radio and the conventional "Billboard" chart... You saw that nonexistent lineup for the Rick Ross signing. Hysteria exists at most in the hearts of your fans, just play to your fans!

I played the new Dave Matthews Band album, "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King". I won't say I hated it, but I found it torture to listen to. It sounded like Dave Matthews, it had all the elements except memorable material.

Then I hit track 7, "Spaceman", and every cut thereafter was really good.

Huh?

Who did the sequencing? Who picked the single?

A non-fan who hears "Funny The Way", the track they're promoting, is going to laugh. Because it's everything they hate about the DMB, there's no risk. But there's risk in "Squirm", cut 8, and unlike "Get On Your Boots", it's not bad. Someone not enamored of the DMB could hear it and be drawn in.

In other words, what's the purpose of the single? To deliver something radio will play that won't move the public? Top Forty is for tracks, not credible, career artists. So, you deliver something "in-your-face", obvious, radio doesn't play it anyway and everybody but the hard core ignores it.

And if it's truly about the hard core, how about the cut that's going to reach them most, the one that will penetrate them and cement their belief?

"Alligator Pie (Cockadile)", cut 8, starts off like the soundtrack of "Deliverance", it's got no place on terrestrial radio, but it gets your toe tapping more than "Funny The Way".

"Seven", ironically cut 10, has got a lick straight off of "Exile On Main Street". It twists in between repetition of this riff, but the cut's got a creativity closer to the Stones opus, something from side 3, than what's conventionally aired on the radio. "Seven" is what you play when you're tanked up and raging, whether in the frat house in the early morning hours or at the gig.

"Time Bomb" has got that magical "Dreaming Tree" quality, like it was cut by a folkie living in a hut deep in the northern territories of Canada. This is the kind of music that made me a DMB fan.

The quiet feel is replicated in the following, incredibly intimate, "Baby Blue".

In other words, the tracks hitting the conventional DMB notes rubbed me the wrong way. I know that sound, when the band fires on all cylinders and the crowd erupts. But that's about party, fandom comes from the cuts that you play alone, in the middle of the night.

I realize DMB still has a major label contract.

But I think this album should have been an EP. Four, maybe five tracks at most. It would have been more digestible. And I would have focused on the music that REACHES people. The classic albums oftentimes weren't successful out of the box, it was only when the collective universe all found out they were listening and united that the anointment took place.

I advocate releasing YOUR BEST track in advance. Not the one that's most workable in the media. Are DMB fans paying attention to mainstream media?

Bono is playing to the grandstand, he needs worldly acclaim.

Dave Matthews is more humble, more understated, and it's when he makes music befitting his identity that he's most successful.

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▷▷ Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King track listing

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Rumored track list:

* Dive In
* Spaceman
* Timebomb
* Shake me Like A Monkey
* Squirm
* Why I Am
* Lying in the Hands of God

Listing reported from wikipedia:

Grux
Shake Me Like a Monkey
Funny the Way It Is
Lying in the Hands of God
Why I Am
Dive In
Spaceman
Squirm
Alligator Pie (Cockadile)
Seven
Time Bomb
My Baby Blue
You and Me

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Rumor:
"Funny the Way It Is" to be the first single on Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King!!!

We can not verify if this is true or not, but supposedly it is confirmed. Only time will tell!

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▷▷ Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King Lyrics

2009-03-16T16:03:00.000-07:00

They will be posted once they are available...stay tuned!

Another new song made its debut. One of the B-Side songs from the Bonus Disc of Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King, 'Beachball'.

Dave Matthews Band - 'Beachball' (Live 29th April 2009)

'Beachball' Lyrics, transcribed by Fink:
"All the world is like a beach ball
out in space, between the waves
In the hands of laughing babies
all the world is gumball(?) shaped

Hello moon, Hello stars in the sky
Heaven won't you answer me, why?

I ring the bell until someone listens
look upon this burning city
victory, smiles the wicked man
does he feel the weight of every finger
hanging off his heavy hands.

Ring the bell til someone listens
Bring me gold and bring me wisdom
give me scars(?) to bring me grace
wicked wit and when i use it
that's the hopes of those who hate me
Give me love, big as a mountain, oh oh oh, yea.

Ring the bell til someone listens
Melt your words right to my skin
and your smile my flesh and bones
From the mountains i will sing you
through your veins my river flows

I ring the bell til someone listens
Bring me gold and bring me wisdom
give me scars(?) to bring me grace
wicked wit and when i use it
that's the hopes of those who hate me
Give me love, big as a mountain, oh oh oh, yea.

Ring the bell til someone listens
Bring me gold and bring me wisdom
give me scars(?) to bring me grace
and wicked wit and when i use it
that's the hopes of those who hate me
Give me love as big as a beachball, oh oh oh, yea.
Give me love as big as a beachball, yea."

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Funny The Way it Is Here is the song audio

Lyin’ in the park
On a beautiful day
Sun shine on the grass
And the children play
Siren’s passin’
Fire engine’s red
Someone’s house is burning down
On a day like this

The evening comes and we’re hangin’ out
On the front step
And a car goes by with the windows rolled down
And that war song is playin “why can’t we be friends?”
Someone is screamin’ and cryin’ in the apartment upstairs

Funny the way it is
And if you think about it
Somebody’s is goin’ hungry
And someone else is eatin’ now
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
Somebody’s heart is broken
And it becomes your favorite song

The way your mouth feels in a lover’s kiss
Like a pretty bird on the breeze
Or water on a fish
But a bomb blast brings the building crashin’ to the floor
Hear the laughter while the children play war

Funny the way it is
And if you think a bout it
One kid walks 10 miles to school
Another’s droppin’ out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier’s last breath
His baby’s being born

Standin’ on the bridge
Watch the water passin’ under me
It must have been much harder
When there was no bridge just water
Now the world is small
Remember how it used to be
With mountains, and oceans, and winters, and river’s and stars

Watch the sky in a jet plane
So far out of my reach
Is there someone up there lookin’ down on me?
Boy chase a bird
So close but every time
He never catch her
But he can’t stop trying

Funny the way it is
And if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school
Another’s droppin’ out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier’s last breath
His baby’s being born

Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
Somebody’s broken heart
Becomes your favorite song
Funny the way it is
And if you think a bout it
One kid walks 10 miles to school
Another’s droppin’ out

Standin’ on the bridge
Watch the water passin’ under me
It must have been much harder
When there was no bridge just water
Now the world is small
Remember how it used to be
With mountains, and oceans, and winter’s, and river’s and stars

Why I Am Lyrics

I grew from monkey into a man
Then I crushed fifteen million with a wave of my hand
I grew drunk on water turned into wine
'Til I was slave and master
At the same damn time

But it's why I am
But it's why I am
That's why I am

Still here dancing with the Groogrux King
Out of my head
And said, “Hello”

The king of man, it makes no sense
Oh and I bow to the feet, while I worship the witch

But it’s why I am
The only one that made me smile
Why I am
A snake in the woodpile
Why I am

Aww, still here dancing with the Groogrux King

Out of my head and into the room
So when my ghost takes me from you
You can’t remember the fool that I am
Don’t cry baby, don’t cry

It’s the lose and the win of the world
Wrong and right just remember the world
It’s the you and the me of the world
Only one way out of the world
It’s the lose and the win of the world
Wrong and right just remember the world
It’s the you and the me of the world
Only one way out of the world

That’s why I am
I'm unlikely to agree
That’s why I am
I'm out of my monkey tree
Why I am

Still here dancing with the Groogrux King
Will be drinking big whiskey while we dance and sing
Where my story ends is when I get with him
Heaven or hell, I am going there with the Groogrux King

That’s why I am
The color of your pretty eyes
Why I am
A snake in the woodpile
Why I am

Still here dancing with the Groogrux King

Out of my head and into the room
So when my ghost takes me from you
You can’t remember the fool that I am
Don’t cry, baby, don’t cry

Spaceman Lyrics

Probably get it wrong just to get it right, girl
Your probably gonna move but I caught you now
Now I’ll just have to bow down now
'Cause I love the way you move me
I love the way you move me

I like most liquor but I don’t like gin
Don’t always like the skin I’m in
Where we’re gonna go I want to start again
But I love the way you move me, baby
I love the way you move me, babe

Oh ah, ah ah yeah
All the freaks are on parade
I wanna fill my belly so I gotta get paid
Doesn’t everybody deserve to have the good life
But it don’t always work out
Cry, cry baby if you must
Just remember, just remember
I love the way you love me
And I love the way you move me

I’m not all there I’m a faithful sinner
I might get lost but I’ll be home for dinner
If God don’t like me he can hand me to hell
But I love the way you love me girl
And I love the way you move me

I pray to heaven to keep my place
Till I look to the mirror and saw the Devil’s face
And I’d be a dog for a tail to chase
But I love the way you kiss me baby
I love the way you talk to me
I love the way you talk to me

Oh ah ah ah yeah
All the freaks are on parade
I wanna fill my belly so I gotta get paid
Doesn’t everybody deserve to have the good life
But it don’t always work out
Cry, cry baby if you must
Just remember
The way you move me

Not coming home till the good day’s gone
Working as hard as the day is long
Working men watch me when I get home
I love the way you talk, baby
I love the way you talk, baby
I love the way you move

Oh ah ah ah yeah
All the freaks are on parade
I wanna fill my belly so I gotta get paid
Doesn’t everybody deserve to have the good life
But it don’t always work out
Cry, cry baby if you must
Just remember, oh remember

All the freaks are on parade
I thought I saw a Spaceman tryin' to get laid
Doesn’t everybody deserve to have the good life
But it don’t always work out
Cry, cry baby if you must
Just remember, oh remember
I love the way you love me, girl
I love the way you move

You and Me

Want to pack your bags something small
Take what you need and we disappear
Without a trace we'll be gone
Moon and the stars follow the car
Then we get to the ocean
Gonna take a boat to the end of the world

When the kids are old enough we're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together
You can do anything baby
You and me together yes yes
You and me together
You can do anything baby
You and me together yes yes

You and I are not tied to the ground
Not falling but rising like rolling around
Eyes closed above the rooftops
With eyes closed we're gonna spin through the stars
Our arms wide as the sky we're gonna ride the blue
All the way to the end of the world

When the kids are old enough we're gonna teach them to fly

Chorus

Its so small
Till we reach the end of the world

Lying In The Hands Of God

Baby I'll be your soldier
Gladly I'll do your bidding
For just a taste of what you're holding
For just a taste you could own me
Save your sermons for someone that's afraid to love
I'll be right here lying in the hands of God

Here it comes dive right into me
Now the floor is the ceiling
If you never flew why would you?
Cut the wings off a butterfly

Save your sermons for someone that's afraid to love
If you knew what I feel then you couldn't be so sure
I'll be right here lying in the hands of God
If you feel angels in your hair
Teardrops of joy run down your face
You will rise

Fill me up now drown me
Skin begins to grow back slowly
Faster until i'm choking
I really should call my mother

Save your sermons for someone that's afraid to love
If you knew what I feel then you couldn't be so sure
I'll be right here lying in the hands of God
If you feel angels in your hair

I am in love with nothing else
Teardrops of joy run off my face
I will rise for someone that's afraid to love
If you knew what I feel then you couldn't be so sure
I'll be right here lying in the hands of God

Now the floor is the ceiling
If you never flew why would you

Shake Me Like a Monkey

The things I like about you
The way you do what you do
The things i like about you
God n the devil alone could not have made you up

Two must have worked as one together
So good just want to eat you up
Let me like the real thing
Lick your sticky fingers boy and sing for your dinner sing

Come on pretty babe make me lose my mind
Everybody get together gonna make love shine

Do you know what it is to feel the light of love inside you?
And all the darkness falls away
If you feel the way I feel then believe we have the answer
I've been searching for tonight
Love me baby love me baby shake me like a monkey
Forever i'm yours

I can't stop thinking about you
yeah yeah yeah
why would i want to
I like coffee with toast and jelly
But i'd rather be licking from your back to your belly
I think I'm going to

Do you know what it is to feel the light of love inside you?
And all the darkness falls away
If you feel the way I feel then believe we have the answer
I've been searching for tonight
Love me baby love me baby shake me like a monkey
Forever i'm yours

Cigarettes and coffee broken heart and being lonely little girls
And ponies are the things that go together
Yes and no you have to choose Romeo and Juliet to hang their noose
You and me would go together

Kiss Kiss make a wish
Hope that it comes true
But I ain't waiting for the world to change
Gonna change the world for you

Come on pretty baby make you lose your mind
Everybody get together gonna make love shine

Do you know what it is to feel the light of love inside you?
And all the darkness falls away
If you feel the way I feel then believe we have the answer
I've been searching for tonight
Love me baby love me baby shake me like a monkey
Forever i'm yours

Come on everybody make me lose my mind

▷▷ Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King

2009-03-16T16:02:00.000-07:00

Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King is the seventh studio album by Dave Matthews Band (DMB), which is scheduled to be released by RCA Records on June 2, 2009.

It will be the band's first studio album since 2005's Stand Up and the first release since the death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Guitarist Tim Reynolds will play on the album, marking his first recording with DMB since 1998’s Before These Crowded Streets. Rashawn Ross will make his first appearance on a DMB studio album since joining as a regular touring member in 2006 as will Jeff Coffin, who has taken Moore's role since June 2008. The album is being produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Alanis Morissette).

Work on the album began in February 2008 at Studio Litho in Seattle, Washington, and continued from October to December 2008 at Studio X in Seattle.In January 2009 the band began work at Piety Street Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The album was originally slated to be released on April 14, 2009, but it was moved to June 2. The title of the album was announced on February 26, 2009.

Rolling Stone provided the first official track name off of the album: Lying in the javascript:void(0)Hands of God; AntsMarching.org provided the next three track names off the album. Rolling Stone provided additional four track names, and one name "Shake Me Like a Monkey" conflicted with one AntsMarching.org announced, "Shake Your Monkey".

The word "Groogrux" is a nickname for founding band member LeRoi Moore who died in August 2008. ( Moore died during pre-production of the album )

Credit: wikipedia