In 1993, a somewhat scruffy band from San Francisco with a charismatic lead singer and sprawling, wordy songs were able to break through the stranglehold grunge held on the music scene. The band was ...
More than 30 years ago, Adam Duritz and his band Counting Crows debuted with "Mr. Jones," a song about longing for fame in the music industry. Little did he know that fame was going to be immediate — ...
For years, people told Adam Duritz not to bother releasing full albums, that “nobody wants to listen to ’em anymore.” So he released Counting Crows‘ most ambitious music ever — an interlocked, ...
The long, mournful trumpet-and-piano intro to "Palisades Park," the atmospheric opening track on Counting Crows' first new studio album in six years, suggests that we're in for something different. In ...
As Counting Crows were getting set to record the songs for what became their debut album, 1993's August and Everything After, Robbie Robertson offered some important advice at a time when they really ...