As of now, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King is available for download via the iTunes Store. For your $16.99, you get not only the 13 known tracks from the album, but 2 bonus tracks in addition – Write a Song (which will be part of the bonus disc with the Super Deluxe package) and Cornbread (known to many DMB fans as a recent live staple from the band). It’s unknown if the tracks will be part of the iTunes Pass that US store buyers have access to, but the word seems to be that wherever Warner have the rights (mainly Europe and Australia), these tracks are available at least on the online release (Europe will get them on the physical CD, but we’re uncertain whether Australia will at this stage).
As I type this, it’s #50 on the top albums list, so if you wish to do your Big Whiskey buying online, then do it on iTunes and help the album shoot up the charts.
As an aside, the CBS News Sunday Morning program in the US featured DMB in a news story this past Sunday. Check out the video at http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5052066n
