The album cover artwork and all the liner note artwork was hand drawn by Dave Matthews. The title of the album was announced on February 26, 2009. The album was originally slated to be released on April 14, 2009, but it was moved to June 2.
In January 2009 the sessions that would complete the album began at Piety Street Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana. Production moved to Seattle, Washington in February 2008 at Studio Litho, and continued from October to December 2008 at Studio X. Work on the album began in November 2007 at Haunted Hollow in Charlottesville, Virginia. Įxactly six months after its release, Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Rock Album and Album of the Year, but lost to Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown and Taylor Swift's Fearless, respectively. This marked the group's fifth consecutive studio album to open with a sales week of at least 400,000 copies. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 424,000 copies in its first week of release. The album was the first to be produced by Rob Cavallo. Rashawn Ross makes his first appearance on a DMB studio album since joining as a regular touring member in 2006 as well as Jeff Coffin, who has taken Moore's role since June 2008. Guitarist Tim Reynolds played on the album, marking his first recording with DMB since 1998's Before These Crowded Streets. It is the band's first release since the death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore.
Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King is the seventh studio album by Dave Matthews Band, which was released by RCA Records on June 2, 2009.
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