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Dave & the boys left Camden, N.J. feeling good after a two show stop at the Susquehanna Bank Center. Porsha Grant of ABC 6 in Philadelphia highlighted DMB’s performance of “You and Me” as one of the night’s best. After the crowd of Philadelphians sang along to Big Whiskey track just like it was one the band’s old hits. Just more evidence that the new album has really struck a crowd with the fans. Thursday night’s show ended with “Stay (Wasting Time)”. I like how songs of Dave’s Some Devil album have been worked into the band’s set lists like “Gravedigger” and “So Damn Lucky” and The band will be in East Troy, Wisconsin for the Fourth of July weekend performing at Alpine Valley Music Theater for two nights.

In the first of two shows at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the Dave Matthews Band put on a solid show for 25,000 music fans Friday night. Big Whiskey & the Groo Grux King tracks “Why I Am” and “Seven” got the night really going and the show picked up a few notches from that point. It’s a great sign that the newer material can energize crowd just as much as a song like “Bartender” or “Big Eyed Fish”. Stefan Lessard was  serenaded by the audience for his thirty fifth birthday and the concert turned into a full-on dance party with “You and Me”, “Jimi Thing”, and “Shake Me Like a Monkey”. Dave and Company is headed for Bonnaroo next weekend where they will close the festival on Sunday night. First things first though, DMB travels to suburban Boston to play tonight and tomorrow at the Comcast Center.

Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King concludes with “You and Me”, a unadulterated song about love’s possibilities, was featured in DMB’s latest music video. The video opens with Dave sitting in a chair playing guitar surrounded by numerous empty chairs. As the song progressed the chairs are filled by musicians including the rest of DMB. This is one of my favorite songs off of the album, for its straight ahead positive message and I got a feeling its going to be amazing live. I can imagine it’s going to be great sing-a-long on the tour this summer. Check out the video here

On the latest Dave Matthews Band album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, is appears that Dave is a firm believer that every coin has two sides. The first single from the album “Why I Am” is a great example of irony in DMB’s songwriting. A irresistible saxophone riff drives the song with some heavy electric guitar work makes the track jump out of the speaker and grab your attention. The character of the GrooGrux King, which is a reference to recently deceased band member Leroi Moore, appears to be Cajun monarch of Mardi Gras whom the speaker in the song celebrates life with. The opening lines of the song demonstrate man’s capacity to do both amazing and terrible things: I grew from monkey into man/Then I crushed 15 million with the wave of my hand. The point I gather from the song is to truly enjoy the good parts of the lives we have because the world is such an imperfect place.