big whiskey

I've been listening to the Dave Matthews Band's newest album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, for the past couple of days. It was released back in April but I've only now just gotten around to listening to it. It's the last album that original band member LeRoi Moore laid any tracks down for before he died last August and he's never far from the spirit of the songs. In fact, the album cover is a drawing (by Dave Matthews himself, no less) of him in the guise of a Mardi Gras float.




















My hands down favorite is the fourth track, "Lying in the Hands of God." It's a 4/4 thing with a maestoso tempo and the awesome lyric, "Save your sermons for someone who's afraid to love." Some of Moore's sax licks drop in around 2'58" and add this floaty passion to the proceedings that you didn't know was missing until it was suddenly there.

Definitely worth a listen and a fitting tribute to one of the great sax players of all time.