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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 Like a Monkey,' the stirring ballad 'Lying in the Hands of God,' the swampy rocker 'Alligator Pie (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."
Product Details
Audio CD Release Date:
June 02, 2009
Studio:
Rca
Number Of Discs:
1
Average Customer Rating:
based on 155 reviews
Track Listing
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
10.
Seven
11.
Time Bomb
12.
Baby Blue
13.
You & Me
Customer Reviews
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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
love it Mar 12, 2010 Bought this for my husband for Valentine's but the whole family loves it. Very upbeat and fun listening.
DMB returns, in a Big Way Mar 05, 2010 After the death of LeRoi Moore in 2008, there was left a gaping hole in DMB's line-up that caused many people like myself to wonder if they would be able to come back from such a huge loss both mentally and musically. Big Whiskey answers those fears and then some. After the exceedingly dull American Baby, Whiskey finds the band more focused than any release since Busted Stuff. The band even channels some of the jams that got them started way back on BTCS. "Lying in the Hands of God" might just be my favorite DMB song now. This album is not just a fitting tribute and honor to the late LeRoi, but it might even be arguably DMB's best album.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Boring Clamour Mar 03, 2010 I really like Dave Matthews's music.. After 'Some Devil' I was expecting very nicely crafted music with a message from the DMB. Instead it's a bombastic mess and almost mindless music and lyrics. I bought the LP and I don't know if the engineering is any better on cd but it's another 'pushed-to-the-max' style of recording.. with everything recorded at the same level, driven to distortion. There is no delicacy or intimacy in the album.
I can look past recording quality if there is a message to hear in the music.. I have to do this with Coldplay.. great music, terrible recording quality... but I listen through it to 'get' the musical message. Anyway.. The Big Whiskey album has no message.. other than, "hey, we're DMB, here's some music we made." Under the Table, Crash, etc. were all revolutionary, soulful and seemed important. This last album is a 'whatever' album, infinitely forgettable.. and of course, THIS is the one they choose to go vinyl with.. sigh. Much like Ben Folds has lost his way, so has DMB. It's fine.. you run out of things to emote after a while. I just don't get all the positive reviews.. This album doesn't hold a candle to his earlier work.
-C
Jammin' up to the sky Feb 23, 2010 I've always been a fan of DMB, but I noticed that their most recent albums haven't been as well-received as their earlier stuff, even though album sales hadn't dropped off. To make things even more difficult, saxophonist LeRoi Moore died during production due to injuries stemming from an ATV accident on his farm. But Dave and the boys soldiered on with their tribute to their fallen brother, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.
You can especially tell they're saluting LeRoi by his instrumental interludes at the beginning of the album and after "You & Me". Critics and fans alike are calling this album the best album of the band's career, probably because it's more in the vein of Under the Table and Dreaming and Crash in that it doesn't sound quite as mainstream as their later stuff. Although I agree with that assertion, I can't exactly call the album a classic. But there are great songs aplenty, like "Why I Am"; and if you can't get energized by "Shake Me Like a Monkey", I don't know what's wrong.
Another highlight, "Squirm", is the kind of theatrical track I haven't really heard from them since Before These Crowded Streets (I initially thought there was too much going on in that song, but it grew on me now). But Dave DOES go a little too far with the hard-rock-style screaming during the bridge of "Time Bomb". But that can be ignored after hearing standouts like "Baby Blue", "Alligator Pie" and the aforementioned "You & Me" (people finally picked up on the latter after the Grammy performance, but did no one see Saturday Night Live???).
Though a tragedy was the inspiration for Big Whiskey, it somehow turned the album into a nice return to form for the band. I think LeRoi would have been proud.
Anthony Rupert
0 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Never received it. Feb 17, 2010 I tried ordering this item twice as a gift for my sister, but it was 'undeliverable' for some reason. Consequently, my review if for AMAZON, not the CD. They failed to deliver my purchase (twice).
based on 155 reviews
love it Mar 12, 2010
Boring Clamour Mar 03, 2010
Jammin' up to the sky Feb 23, 2010
Never received it. Feb 17, 2010
