4/14/09, 2:43 pm ESTPhoto: Mazur/WireImage
Dave Matthews Band are offering fans a little treat while they await the release of June 2nd’s Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King: first single “Funny The Way It Is” as a free download at DMB’s official Website starting today, April 14th. The new single comes as DMB embark on their spring tour that kicks off tonight at New York’s Madison Square Garden (come back tomorrow for a full report). “Funny The Way,” from the band’s first studio album since 2005’s Stand Up, will only be available for a week free before it hits digital retailers.
Rolling Stone called Big Whiskey “DMB’s heaviest album yet, both musically and emotionally” in our recent story about the new album, and “Funny the Way It Is” proves the point, thanks to production by Rob Cavallo, who previously helmed albums including Green Day’s American Idiot and My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade. “This is a good record,” Dave Matthews told RS when we visited him in the studio. “Even people who don’t like Dave Matthews Band are going to like this record — and if they don’t, then they just don’t like music.”
GrooGrux King is a reference to late DMB saxophonist LeRoi Moore, who passed away early in the album’s recording as a result of injuries sustained in an ATV accident near the band’s hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. “There is so much LeRoi on this record,” Matthews said. (Check out photos of Moore and the rest of the band in our DMB gallery.) The band will make its first-ever morning-TV appearance on the Today show on June 5th.
For more on Big Whiskey be sure to check out our Spring Music Preview.
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