The new Dave Matthews Band disk, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King was released yesterday and I'll say this much: it's ethereal and excellent, and it is transporting me to a place and time, long, long ago and far, far away when I fell (wicked hard) for Pete.
I was 17 years old, a senior in high school and Pete sent me a "tape" (Remember those? Our kids won't!) of Recently and Under the Table and Dreaming...and I listened to that tape over and over again in my smokin' hot VW Jetta. (A car over which I still pine.) Pete went to school in Vermont and I was finishing up high school in Jersey, gearing up for the big leagues of college and we were linked to each other, by both fate and this music. It is amazing how I can still hear any of their music from the past fifteen years and instantly be taken away to whatever was going on when those songs were gifted to us. We all have that...certain songs that just remind us of different places and times, some happy, some sad, some uncertain, friendships and loves. It just makes me happy to look back on the past fifteen years of me and Pete being together and know where we started, the bumps and turns we've taken together and where we are now. I love that my favorite music and my favorite person are all the same now as they were then. This band has truly written the soundtrack of our life together.
And their new disk is ridiculous. It's clear from listening that it has brought them back to center. Their old energy combined with their polished musicianship make for a beautiful finished product, and despite the loss of the late and great LeRoi Moore, they begin and end the record with him, and have paid beautiful homage to him by adding a horn section that is reminiscent of Genesis...without losing a bit of their originality. I cannot wait to see their energy on stage in September, when they have perfectly timed a visit to New Jersey in honor of my birthday.
Those sweet, sweet boys.
So I am energized by a new DMB release, and am looking forward to syncing up my iPod so I can have it on repeat in my smokin' hot minivan. From Jetta to Sienna, fifteen years with the love of my life, eight years of marriage, three kids, four houses...funny how as much as things have changed, there's a whole bunch of stuff that's stayed the same for us. I'm happy to hear in this disk that the same can be said for my favorite, favorite band under the sun.
I was 17 years old, a senior in high school and Pete sent me a "tape" (Remember those? Our kids won't!) of Recently and Under the Table and Dreaming...and I listened to that tape over and over again in my smokin' hot VW Jetta. (A car over which I still pine.) Pete went to school in Vermont and I was finishing up high school in Jersey, gearing up for the big leagues of college and we were linked to each other, by both fate and this music. It is amazing how I can still hear any of their music from the past fifteen years and instantly be taken away to whatever was going on when those songs were gifted to us. We all have that...certain songs that just remind us of different places and times, some happy, some sad, some uncertain, friendships and loves. It just makes me happy to look back on the past fifteen years of me and Pete being together and know where we started, the bumps and turns we've taken together and where we are now. I love that my favorite music and my favorite person are all the same now as they were then. This band has truly written the soundtrack of our life together.
And their new disk is ridiculous. It's clear from listening that it has brought them back to center. Their old energy combined with their polished musicianship make for a beautiful finished product, and despite the loss of the late and great LeRoi Moore, they begin and end the record with him, and have paid beautiful homage to him by adding a horn section that is reminiscent of Genesis...without losing a bit of their originality. I cannot wait to see their energy on stage in September, when they have perfectly timed a visit to New Jersey in honor of my birthday.
Those sweet, sweet boys.
So I am energized by a new DMB release, and am looking forward to syncing up my iPod so I can have it on repeat in my smokin' hot minivan. From Jetta to Sienna, fifteen years with the love of my life, eight years of marriage, three kids, four houses...funny how as much as things have changed, there's a whole bunch of stuff that's stayed the same for us. I'm happy to hear in this disk that the same can be said for my favorite, favorite band under the sun.
Labels: Dave Matthews Band
posted by Kate @ 8:59 AM
1 Comments:
At June 3, 2009 at 11:09 AM ,
Joel said...
Under the Table and Dreaming takes me back to my Accord and driving to Ocean City in the summertime! Amazing how that happens!
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