Til We Dance Away

I wanted to post about it yesterday but I couldn’t bring myself to open YouTube and find a video. I knew tribute videos were being made in honor of LeRoi Moore. How could they not be? But I wasn’t ready. Instead, I fished out my Dave Matthews Band albums and had a little listen fest yesterday evening after the kids had gone to bed.

FireDad and I were reading through the news yesterday morning. He was downstairs in the office and I was upstairs on the laptop and we were instant messaging back and forth. (Yes, folks, we’re that nerdy.) All he typed was, “LeRoi Moore.” I knew. I knew before I tried to find the link he was talking about with my eyes already welling with tears. He was gone.

Moore had been in an ATV accident this past June and was on the road to recovery. Things took a sudden turn for the worse. And now he’s gone. It seems very unreal, this news. No other celebrity death has caught me so off guard. Perhaps because I’m not much for the celebrity scene and neither are these bands members. Maybe its because Moore’s solos are so heartfelt and tied into so many of my memories. I don’t know. Either way, Dave Matthews said it best in a concert preformed the night that Moore passed on.

It’s always easier to leave, than to be left

True. True.

Nothing more to be said. And so I leave you with one of the many tributes popping up on YouTube. This one features the studio version sax solo from the song “Lover Lay Down.” Beautiful. Inspiring. Real.

Til we dance away. Thank you for the music, Roi.