LeRoi Moore plays his last on newest DMB album
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Late saxophonist LeRoi Moore will get to say goodbye to fans through some of the final recordings he made with his Dave Matthews Band bretheren on the band’s forthcoming album Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King. Matthews tells Rolling Stone that several tracks on the new disc feature Moore’s playing including a track titled “Lying in the Hands of God,” which Matthews describes as “kind of like a duet between us.” The album title is partly an homage to Moore as Matthews reveals “Groogrux King” was a nickname of Moore’s. The album is due out on June 2.
This will be difficult to listen to knowing he’s gone, but so glad they included these cuts on the album . We’ll all miss you LeRoi but your music will live on and so too will you.
[...] album will, of course, be the swan song of sax player and founding member Leroi Moore, who died last August as a result of injuries [...]