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DMB’s Big Whiskey goes platinum

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From Ants Marching: Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King is officially Platinum. It took a bit longer than the previous album, Stand Up, to reach the million sales plateau, but that’s not exactly a measure of its success. Factoring in the economy, and the ease of torrents (you know who you are that downloaded it), and the fact that the entire album – albeit a different cut – leaked to the Internet a week before the release,…

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DMB debuts video for Why I Am

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This is my favorite song from the latest album, if for no other reason than it is a tribute to the late, great LeRoi Moore, the Groo Grux King. So, we’ll be drinking big whiskey while we laugh and sing… Why I Am

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Plain Dealer gives DMB an A+

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The first thing you hear is the unfettered sax of LeRoi Moore, who died in August of complications from injuries sustained in an ATV accident. On “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King” the Dave Matthews Band salutes its fallen co-founder, although the mood is anything but moribund. “Don’t be dead before you die,” Matthews sings on “Squirm,” amid similar life-affirming vibes to the tune of “Dive In” and “Shake Me like a Monkey.” The latter tune, a horn-embellished knockout, takes…

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DMB documentary on FUSE

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Go behind the scenes and backstage with DMB in a four-part documentary special that explores their entire 18-year career and the making of their new album: Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King. Dave Matthews Band: The Road to Big Whiskey starts tonight at 8pm on Fuse TV. With unprecedented access to DMB, Fuse will allow you to see the band like never before! Watch Volumes 1-4 of the documentary series starting tonight, June 2 through Friday, June 5 at 8pm…

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Rolling Stone: 4 stars for new DMB album

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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. Saxophonist LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band was a famously…

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LA Times review of DMB’s new album

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If a hurricane cuts through the middle of your living room during a party, do you keep dancing? Dave Matthews says yes. “Alligator Pie (Cockadile)” is a Delta blues stomper based around the banjo, one of the instruments the African slave trade made All-American. It starts with a dog’s bark and extends that backyard jam feel even as it swells into a big rock song. Matthews free-associates a dream of his daughter sitting on the roof as the water of…

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Chicage Trib gives new DMB album 3 stars

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  On the Dave Matthews Band’s latest album, “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King” (RCA), the band’s late saxophonist LeRoi Moore gets the first word, and the last. Though Moore died last August at age 46 from injuries suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, his shadow hovers over the band’s seventh — and best — studio album, most of which was recorded last winter in New Orleans with producer Rob Cavallo, who has previously worked with Green Day and My…

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