Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King: The Review
Posted by Matthew Yette in Album News at 10:06pm on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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Since 1998's Before These Crowded Streets, Dave Matthews Band has released three studio albums, each with an increasing crescendo of fanfare and hype. While it isn't difficult finding fans of any of these three projects, apprehension among the fanbase grew with each release, as they were all generally regarded as not up to the quality of the the "Big 3", or 1994's Under the Table and Dreaming, 1996's Crash, and 1998's BTCS. It is understandable then, that Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King represents the band's most important album in the last decade, and due to all the circumstances surrounding it, perhaps the most important album of their career. Expectations - no, demands - for an album have never been so high, and with LeRoi Moore's passing last August, it would be no surprise to anyone that the band was under an immense amount of pressure to put out the best product possible.
Read on for the review here.
