Counting Crows is an American
rock
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band from
San Francisco, California
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. Formed in 1991, the band consists of guitarist David Bryson, drummer Jim Bogios, vocalist
Adam Duritz
Adam Fredric Duritz (born August 1, 1964) is an American singer, best known as the frontman for the rock band Counting Crows, of which he is a founding member and principal composer. Since its founding in 1991, Counting Crows has sold over 20 mi ...
, keyboardist
Charlie Gillingham
Charles Thomas Gillingham (born January 26, 1960) is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist best known for his performance on the Hammond B-3 organ, accordion, piano, and keyboards for the band Counting Crows. He has also played the bass guitar ...
,
David Immerglück
David A. Immerglück (born May 3, 1961)''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. is an American multi-instrumentalist who is best known as a guitarist in the alternative rock bands Counting Crows, ...
, bass guitarist
Millard Powers
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, and guitarist
Dan Vickrey
Daniel Vickrey (born August 26, 1966) is an American musician. He has performed since 1994 as a lead guitarist in the alternative rock band, Counting Crows. Vickrey also provides backing vocals, and is a harmonist within the band.
As co-wri ...
. Past members include the drummers
Steve Bowman (1991–1994) and Ben Mize (1994–2002), and bass guitarist Matt Malley (1991–2005).
Counting Crows gained popularity following the release of its first album, ''
August and Everything After
''August and Everything After'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released September 14, 1993, on Geffen Records. The album was produced by T Bone Burnett and featured the founding members of the band: Steve Bowman ...
'' (1993). With the breakthrough hit single "
Mr. Jones" (1993), the album sold more than 7 million copies in the United States. The band received two Grammy Awards nominations in 1994, one for "Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal" (for "
Round Here
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") and one for "Best New Artist". The follow-up album, ''
Recovering the Satellites
''Recovering the Satellites'' is the second studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on October 15, 1996, in the United States. Released three years after their debut album (and two years of worldwide touring), it reached No. ...
'', reached number one on the US
''Billboard'' 200 album chart and reached number one in several other countries. All but one of their subsequent albums was top 10 on the ''Billboard'' 200 list.
Their hit singles include the aforementioned "Mr. Jones" as well as "
Rain King", "
A Long December
"A Long December" is a song by American alternative rock band Counting Crows. The ballad is the second single and 13th track from their second album, ''Recovering the Satellites'' (1996). Lead singer Adam Duritz was inspired to write the track af ...
", "
Hanginaround
"Hanginaround" is a song by American rock band Counting Crows. It is the first track on their third album, '' This Desert Life'' (1999). Released on October 18, 1999, the song reached number 28 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming their big ...
", and a cover version of
Joni Mitchell
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's "
Big Yellow Taxi
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".
Counting Crows received a 2004
Academy Award
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nomination for the single "
Accidentally in Love", which was included in the film ''
Shrek 2
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''. The band has sold more than 20 million albums and is known for its dynamic live performances.
''Billboard'' has also ranked the band as the 8th greatest Adult Alternative Artist of all time.
The band's most recent full album, ''
Somewhere Under Wonderland
''Somewhere Under Wonderland'' is the seventh studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on September 2, 2014 in the United States through Capitol Records, and on September 15, 2014 in the UK, through Virgin EMI. It is available ...
'', was released in 2014. They released a four-song
EP in 2021 titled ''
Butter Miracle:Suite One'', which is expected to be expanded to a full album.
Origin of band name
The band name is derived from "
One for Sorrow", a British
divination
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nursery rhyme
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From t ...
about the
superstitious counting of
magpies
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, which are members of the crow family. Singer Adam Duritz heard the rhyme in the film ''
Signs of Life'', which starred his close friend, the actress
Mary-Louise Parker
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.
Here is one modern version of the rhyme:
The rhyme is featured in the song "
A Murder of One" on the band's debut album, ''August and Everything After''.
[
]
History
1990s
1991–1992: Formation and early years
Adam Duritz, former member of the San Francisco Bay Area
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band the Himalayans, and producer/guitarist David Bryson formed Counting Crows in San Francisco in 1991. They began as an acoustic duo, playing gigs in and around Berkeley and San Francisco. Another friend, guitarist David Immerglück
David A. Immerglück (born May 3, 1961)''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. is an American multi-instrumentalist who is best known as a guitarist in the alternative rock bands Counting Crows, ...
, played with them from time to time, though he was not an official member of the group, and experimented with other musicians in the area. As the emerging band recorded some demo
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s, and as other musicians joined the duo to make a full band, Immerglück recorded with the band on some of the songs for its first album. He declined to join the band at the time, because of his membership in two other locally popular bands, Monks of Doom
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.[ By 1993, the band had grown to a stable lineup of Duritz as ]vocalist
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, occasional pianist
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, and primary songwriter
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, Bryson on guitar, Matt Malley
Counting Crows is an American rock band from San Francisco, California. Formed in 1991, the band consists of guitarist David Bryson, drummer Jim Bogios, vocalist Adam Duritz, keyboardist Charlie Gillingham, David Immerglück, bass guitarist Mil ...
playing bass guitar
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, Charlie Gillingham
Charles Thomas Gillingham (born January 26, 1960) is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist best known for his performance on the Hammond B-3 organ, accordion, piano, and keyboards for the band Counting Crows. He has also played the bass guitar ...
on keyboard
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s, and Steve Bowman as drummer
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, and the band was a regular in the Bay Area scene.
When Gary Gersh of Geffen Records
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Founded in 1980, Geffen Records has been a part of Interscope Geffen A&M since 1999 and h ...
heard the band's demo tape, he was "blown away". A bidding war between nine different record labels broke out in February 1992. In April, the band—which, by that time, included other members—"signed a deal with Gersh and Geffen believed to be so lucrative that industry wags dubbed them Accounting Crows". On January 16, 1993, the band, still relatively unknown, filled in for Van Morrison
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As a teenager in t ...
at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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ceremony, and was introduced by an enthusiastic Robbie Robertson
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. At the ceremony, they played a cover of Van Morrison's "Caravan
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".
Before signing to Geffen, the band recorded demo versions of a number of songs, known as the 'Flying Demos'. These later surfaced among the Counting Crows fanbase. Tracks include " Rain King", "Omaha", "Anna Begins", " Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)", "Shallow Days", "Love and Addiction", " Mr. Jones", "Round Here
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", "40 Years", "Margery Dreams of Horses", "Bulldog", "Lightning", and "We're Only Love".
1993–1994: ''August and Everything After'' and popular success
The band's debut album, ''August and Everything After'', was released in September 1993.[ The album's first single, "Mr. Jones", refers to Marty Jones (Himalayans ]bassist
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, and Duritz's childhood friend) and Kenney Dale Johnson (the drummer of Silvertone, Chris Isaak
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's band). It describes the desire of working musicians to make it big and the fantasies they entertain about what fame might bring. Duritz sang the song in fun, enjoying the fantasy; he did not realize that just months later, in December 1993,[ ]MTV
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would begin playing the video for the song. "Mr. Jones" was a breakthrough hit, drawing massive radio play and launching the band into stardom. In 2018, the ''Chicago Sun-Times
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'' described ''August and Everything After'' as follows: "August And Everything After" aunchedthe Bay Area septet with its hippie-inspired, roots-rock-infiltrating hits "Mr. Jones", "Round Here", and "Rain King", (ironically, at a time when grunge dominated the charts). Counting Crows eschewed the trend, happily wearing their time-stamped influences like Van Morrison and The Band on their patchwork sleeves, and found an audience who agreed with them. That first album went on to become a seven-times-platinum success in the U.S. alone, at the time the fastest-selling record since Nirvana' ''Nevermind''.
With "Mr. Jones" propelling the band forward, and with positive reviews from ''Rolling Stone
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'' and other publications, it was decided that the band could use a second guitarist, and Dan Vickrey, another Bay Area musician was offered the role as lead guitar
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ist, singing backing vocals
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. In 1994, the band appeared on ''Saturday Night Live
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''[ and '']Late Show with David Letterman
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''.[ The band toured extensively in 1993 and 1994, both as headliners and in supporting roles with other artists, including ]the Rolling Stones
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, Cracker, the Cranberries
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, Suede
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, Bob Dylan
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, Los Lobos
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, Jellyfish
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, and Midnight Oil
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.[ The album sold seven million copies in the U.S.] The band received two Grammy nominations in 1994; one for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (for "Round Here") and one for Best New Artist.
Success took a toll on Counting Crows; Duritz suffered a widely reported nervous breakdown
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, which was not his first.
1995–1998: ''Recovering the Satellites'' and double live album
The band played only two gigs in 1995.[ This allowed Duritz to write a set of songs that became the band's second album, '']Recovering the Satellites
''Recovering the Satellites'' is the second studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on October 15, 1996, in the United States. Released three years after their debut album (and two years of worldwide touring), it reached No. ...
''.[ Released October 15, 1996, it was heavier than ''August and Everything After''. A response to the sudden fame that "Mr. Jones" had brought, it contains lyrics such as "These days I feel like I'm fading away / Like sometimes when I hear myself on the radio" (from "Have You Seen Me Lately?") and "Gonna get back to basics / Guess I'll start it up again" (from "Recovering the Satellites"). Dealing with the theme of Duritz's unease with his newfound fame, the album was described as "a concept album of sorts about trying to pick up the pieces of a family, a social life and a psyche shattered by fame".][ This album contained the single "]A Long December
"A Long December" is a song by American alternative rock band Counting Crows. The ballad is the second single and 13th track from their second album, ''Recovering the Satellites'' (1996). Lead singer Adam Duritz was inspired to write the track af ...
", which was a number one hit in Canada and a Top 10 hit in the United States.
On July 2, 1997, Counting Crows started off a co-headlining tour with the Wallflowers
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that continued to September. The tour included opening acts by Bettie Serveert
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...
, Engine 88
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, Gigolo Aunts
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and That Dog
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, with each opening band touring for three-weeks. After nine months of near-constant touring in support of the album, Duritz developed nodules on his vocal cords in July 1997, leading to the cancellation of a number of gigs. After taking time off to recover, the band toured for the rest of 1997, concluding with a MTV
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show at the Hammerstein Ballroom
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in New York City. This concert was released as half of a double live album, '' Across a Wire: Live in New York City''. The other disc was a recording of a predominantly acoustic set from the band's appearance on the ''VH1 Storytellers
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'' show.
1999–2001: ''This Desert Life'' and extensive touring
In 1999, Counting Crows performed at Woodstock 99
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. Later that same year, the band released ''This Desert Life
''This Desert Life'' is the third studio album from American rock band Counting Crows. The cover art is by noted comic book artist Dave McKean, best known for his work with Neil Gaiman, and was adapted from the cover art McKean did for Gaiman's p ...
'', sales of which were propelled by the success of "Hanginaround
"Hanginaround" is a song by American rock band Counting Crows. It is the first track on their third album, '' This Desert Life'' (1999). Released on October 18, 1999, the song reached number 28 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming their big ...
" and "Colorblind
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", which was also featured in the movie ''Cruel Intentions
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''. Supporting the album, the band embarked on a co-headlining tour with alternative rock band Live
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. Counting Crows closed nearly every show. Before this album and subsequent tour, the band invited session player
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and long-time friend David Immerglück to join the band as a permanent member. Immerglück had played on every Counting Crows album as a sideman
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, but early on had declined a permanent position. This time, however, Immerglück said yes and now plays a variety of instruments with the band, including acoustic, electric and pedal steel
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guitars, slide guitar
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and mandolin
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, as well as backing vocals
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.[
]
2000s
2002–2003: ''Hard Candy'' and greatest hits album
On July 9, 2002, the band released its fourth studio album, ''Hard Candy
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''. The album included a cover
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of Joni Mitchell
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's song "Big Yellow Taxi
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". Vanessa Carlton
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contributed backing vocals to the single edit of the track, which appeared on the soundtrack
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for ''Two Weeks Notice
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Lucy Kels ...
'' and was re-released on future ''Hard Candy'' albums. The original version, without vocals by Carlton, appeared on the first album release as a hidden track. ''Hard Candy'' received better reviews than the previous efforts, with "radio friendly" songs, like " American Girls" (which featured Sheryl Crow
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on backing vocals), and contains a more upbeat feel and tempo. The band toured with the Dutch
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band, Bløf. A song, "Holiday in Spain", came together as a result of the camaraderie between the two groups: it is sung partly as a dual language duet, and partly as a musical "round", with both lead singer
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s singing in differing languages at the end of the song.
Midway through the Hard Candy tour, drummer Ben Mize (born February 2, 1971, Durham Durham most commonly refers to:
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, North Carolina
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) amicably left the band to spend more time with his family and pursue his own musical interests. After Mize completed the American leg of the tour, he was replaced by Jim Bogios, formerly a drummer with Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer, who is the first artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., since May 2017. Folds was th ...
and Sheryl Crow. Jim attributes leaving Sheryl Crow for Counting Crows to becoming a band member and having more creative input. Following the Hard Candy tour, longtime bassist
A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a Bass (instrument), bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboar ...
Matt Malley left the band. He was replaced by Millard Powers
Avery Millard Powers III (born December 24, 1965) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and Grammy-nominated recording engineer. While a student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the 1980s, he collaborated wit ...
.
Counting Crows released the greatest hits album '' Films About Ghosts'' in November 2003.
2004–2006: Oscars and ''New Amsterdam''
In 2004, the band's " Accidentally in Love" song appeared on the soundtrack
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of the hugely popular computer-animated
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film ''Shrek 2
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''. At the 77th Academy Awards
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, the song was nominated for Best Original Song
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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, but lost to "Al otro lado del río
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In June 2006, the band released '' New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall'' album.
2007–2008: ''Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings''
Duritz hinted in a 2006 interview that Counting Crows' next studio record would be released in late 2007. He indicated that the band had spent three weeks working in a recording studio with Gil Norton
Gil Norton (born in Liverpool) is an English record producer known for his work with alternative rock bands such as Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters, Tribe, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, Feeder, The Distillers, Maxïmo ...
, the producer behind ''Recovering the Satellites'', and revealed the working title of the album to be ''Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
''Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings'' is the fifth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released in the United States on March 25, 2008. It is thematically divided into two sides: the rock music of ''Saturday Nights'' and the more ...
''. Duritz explained that, "Saturday night is when you sin and Sunday is when you regret. Sinning is often done very loudly, angrily, bitterly, violently." Vickrey stated that "the idea at the moment is to have kind of a rocking side and then an acoustic-y, maybe country-ish side. We got the first half done in May in New York, so half of it is pretty strong and done. And now we're going to work on the second half, the country tunes, during the tour."[
Amidst touring in July 2007, the band performed live before the Home Run Derby at the 2007 MLB All-Star Game, and on July 22 previewed two new songs at Daniel S. Frawley Stadium in ]Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington ( Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina ...
, a new ballad titled "Washington Square" and a hard rocking track called "Cowboys". On August 8, 2007, VH1 filmed a live performance of "Mr. Jones", clips of which were shown on the miniseries ''100 Greatest Songs of the 90s''. The song ranked No. 27 on the list.
In September 2007, Counting Crows played a unique show at Town Hall in New York City, during which it performed all the tracks from ''August and Everything After'' in album order. The show was recorded for a planned DVD release, and also featured several songs from the new album. On September 27, Duritz announced on his blog that the band had asked its record label to postpone the album's release until early 2008, citing the time pressures involved in preparing both the new album and an ''August and Everything After'' deluxe edition for release.
On January 16, 2008, the band released a digital single on its official website as a free download. It featured "1492
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" from the "Saturday Nights" half of the new album, and "When I Dream Of Michelangelo" from the "Sunday Mornings" half as its B-side. The album was released on March 25, 2008.
In 2008, Virgil Griffith
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, a software application writer, conducted a study in which he took the ten highest "favorite music" options from Facebook
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for 1,352 different colleges, and cross-referenced them with the average SAT
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score from each college. Counting Crows turned out to be near the top, along with such artists as Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens ( ; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released nine solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nomi ...
, Guster
Guster is an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Founding members Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller, and Brian Rosenworcel began practice sessions while attending Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and fo ...
and U2.
Departure from Geffen
On March 22, 2009, Duritz announced on the band's website that the band would be leaving Geffen Records
Geffen Records is an American record label established by David Geffen and owned by Universal Music Group through its Interscope Geffen A&M Records imprint.
Founded in 1980, Geffen Records has been a part of Interscope Geffen A&M since 1999 and h ...
, with whom they had worked for 18 years. On this day a message from Duritz himself was posted on the band's homepage: a second message was posted a few weeks later. He ended the first letter with a free download of the band's cover of Madonna
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's "Borderline." The track was recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London. One of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, it is held in trust for the nation and managed by a registered charity which receives no govern ...
in 2003.
Following the departure from Geffen, the band has continued to tour. During the summer of 2009, they launched the ambitious ''Saturday Night Rebel Rockers Traveling Circus and Medicine Show'' tour with longtime Bay Area friend Michael Franti
Michael Franti (born April 21, 1966) is an American rapper, musician, poet, activist, documentarian, and singer-songwriter, known for his participation in many musical projects, most with a political and social emphasis, including the Beatnigs ...
, his band Spearhead, and the band Augustana. Instead of the traditional concert format of a short set by an opening act, followed by a longer set from a main supporting act, and then a long set by the headlining band, the shows featured members of all of the bands joining each other for songs from each bands' catalogs at various points throughout the evening. As Duritz explained in a welcoming message on the official website for the tour, each show "is going to start with EVERYONE onstage together and we're going to all be running on & off stage all night playing one each other's songs all together and basically just playing whenever we feel like playing."
2010s
2010–2013: Independent releases and individual projects
The album '' August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall'' was released on August 29, 2011. The release marked the band's third professionally produced live album, and the first concert video of its career. The album used footage from the Town Hall concert, recorded in September 2007.
The band released a covers album entitled ''Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)
''Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on April 10, 2012, on Cooking Vinyl. The album is composed of cover songs, with vocalist Adam Duritz stating, ...
'' on April 10, 2012, with a cover design by a fan chosen in a promotional contest. After touring extensively in 2012 and 2013 in support of the album (including headlining ''The Outlaw Roadshow'', a traveling festival tour presented in conjunction with Ryan Spaulding of the music blog Ryan's Smashing Life, and touring North America in the summer of 2013 with the Wallflowers
The Wallflowers is an American rock solo project of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jakob Dylan. The Wallflowers were originally a roots rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1989 by Dylan and guitarist Tobi Miller. The band h ...
), the band began working on material for a new album. Duritz also took time in the summer of 2012 to begin co-writing a play called ''Black Sun'', which will also feature some music written by Duritz, including well-known rarity songs "Good Luck" and "Chelsea".
A live album, ''Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow
''Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow'' is a 2013 live album from American alternative rock band Counting Crows, released on Cooking Vinyl. The album was made available by the band through digital distributors, physical media, and pre-orders for tick ...
'', was released in North America in November 2013.
2014–2020: ''Somewhere Under Wonderland'', podcast and wine
The writing of material for a new album, ''Somewhere Under Wonderland
''Somewhere Under Wonderland'' is the seventh studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on September 2, 2014 in the United States through Capitol Records, and on September 15, 2014 in the UK, through Virgin EMI. It is available ...
'', began early in 2013 and continued during that year's summer tour. The album was released on September 2, 2014.
In 2018, Duritz became an investor in three wineries based in Napa Valley
Napa Valley is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located in Napa County in California's Wine Country. It was established by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) on January 27, 1981. Napa Valley is considered one of the premier ...
, California—Elyse Winery, Institution Winery, and Addax Winery—managed by winemaker Russell Bevan.[Archived a]
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Starting in February 2018, Duritz began recording the Underwater Sunshine Podcast, a weekly music podcast with author and music journalist James Campion. Having parted ways with Spaulding, Duritz and friends began putting on their own twice-annual music festival in New York called the Underwater Sunshine Fest to showcase independent music. The first festival, held at the Bowery Electric
Bowery Electric was an American post-rock band, formed by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener in 1993.
History
Formed by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener in late 1993, Bowery Electric played their first show in New York City in Jan ...
in October 2018, featured 17 bands over two nights. A second in April 2019 showcased 18 bands, and a third held at Rockwood Music Hall
Rockwood Music Hall is a music venue at 196 Allen Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Owner Ken Rockwood, aka "The Professor", opened the establishment in 2005 as a small bar and music venue. Today, the venue features ...
in November 2019 expanded the lineup to 26. Acts as diverse as Yellow House Orchestra, Sean Barna, Mikaela Davis, Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground is an American alternative rock band consisting of three members: John Wozniak (lead vocals, guitar), Dylan Keefe (bass), and Shlomi Lavie (drums). The band is best known for their 1997 hit "Sex and Candy".
History
Early yea ...
, Matt Sucich, Stephen Kellogg, Stew and the Negro Problem, and Fairhazel have appeared. More bands recorded acoustic sessions at Duritz's loft the weekends of each of the festivals.
In January 2019, Counting Crows released a newly recorded version of "August and Everything After" performed with the London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's orchestras, symphony orchestras. The LSO was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood's Queen's ...
at Air Studios
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. The song was cut from the band's first album, which had been named after it.
2021-present: ''Butter Miracle'', cooking and more
Duritz revealed in late 2019 that he had begun writing new music that past August. In early February 2020, he described the band's next project as suites of music that may be released on various EPs. The band began studio sessions in late February and early March on four songs that complete the first suite: "The Tall Grass", "Elevator Boots", "The Angel of 14th Street", and "Bobby and the Rat Kings". Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople were an English rock band formed in Herefordshire. Originally known as the Doc Thomas Group, the group changed their name after signing with Island Records in 1969. The band released albums throughout the early 1970s but fail ...
and Thin Lizzy
Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including blues, soul music, psychedelic rock and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or some ...
were cited as influences on original demos of the songs as Duritz was writing, though the final recordings will likely not sound similar.
During the COVID-19 pandemic
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, without touring, without being able to work on music in the studio, and taking a hiatus from his podcast, Duritz began hosting cooking videos through his Instagram stories. Speaking with chef Tyler Florence
Tyler Florence (born March 3, 1971) is a chef and television host of several Food Network shows. He graduated from the College of Culinary Arts at the Charleston, South Carolina, campus of Johnson & Wales University in 1991. He was later given an ...
, Duritz said the type of research he would do regarding music for the podcast he turned into exploring more about food and cooking to share with others. Duritz and Campion would return to producing the Underwater Sunshine Podcast in May 2021.
"Elevator Boots" was released as the first single for the four-track EP in April 2021, described by ''Rolling Stone'' as "a melodic, wistful ode to life on tour, with a sound that somehow manages to bridge the gap between the Band and Mott the Hoople." The EP, titled ''Butter Miracle
''Butter Miracle'' is an EP by Counting Crows. "Elevator Boots" was released as the first single for the four-track EP in April 2021, described by ''Rolling Stone'' as "a melodic, wistful ode to life on tour, with a sound that somehow manages to ...
, Suite One'', will be released on May 21, 2021. Duritz tells ''Rolling Stone'' that a second EP, ''Butter Miracle, Suite Two'', will be released and together form a full album. He is currently writing songs for the second EP, and the band has tentatively plans to resume touring in the Fall of 2021.
Influences, live performances and covers
Counting Crows, and Duritz in particular, have become renowned for energetic, passionate live performances. The band's influences include Van Morrison
Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards.
As a teenager in t ...
, R.E.M.
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, and Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...
.
Several Counting Crows songs have been altered during the band's live performances, such as "Round Here", "Goodnight Elisabeth", "Rain King", and "A Murder of One". This can be heard on the ''Across a Wire: Live in New York City'' album on the first disc (on which "Round Here" contains lyrics from "Have You Seen Me Lately?") and the second disc ("Anna Begins" has an extended midsection with new lyrics, and the introduction to "Mr. Jones" includes lyrics from "Miller's Angels" and from the Byrds
The Byrds () were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964. The band underwent multiple lineup changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn (known as Jim McGuinn until mid-1967) remaining the sole cons ...
' "So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star").
In February 2011, Duritz released an indie album of cover songs he had recorded entitled ''All My Bloody Valentines''. He allowed Facebook followers to help name and design the cover art for the album.
The band has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide.
Band members
Current members
*Adam Duritz
Adam Fredric Duritz (born August 1, 1964) is an American singer, best known as the frontman for the rock band Counting Crows, of which he is a founding member and principal composer. Since its founding in 1991, Counting Crows has sold over 20 mi ...
– lead vocals, keyboards, occasional harmonica (1991–present)
*David Bryson – rhythm guitar (1994–present), backing vocals (1991–present), lead guitar (1991–1994)
*Charlie Gillingham
Charles Thomas Gillingham (born January 26, 1960) is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist best known for his performance on the Hammond B-3 organ, accordion, piano, and keyboards for the band Counting Crows. He has also played the bass guitar ...
– keyboards, backing vocals (1991–present), accordion, clarinet (1996–present)
*David Immerglück
David A. Immerglück (born May 3, 1961)''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. is an American multi-instrumentalist who is best known as a guitarist in the alternative rock bands Counting Crows, ...
– guitars, bass, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, backing vocals (1999–present, session musician 1993–1999), banjo (2011–present)
*Dan Vickrey
Daniel Vickrey (born August 26, 1966) is an American musician. He has performed since 1994 as a lead guitarist in the alternative rock band, Counting Crows. Vickrey also provides backing vocals, and is a harmonist within the band.
As co-wri ...
– lead guitar, backing vocals (1994–present), banjo (2002–present)
*Jim Bogios – drums, percussion, backing vocals (2002–present)
*Millard Powers
Avery Millard Powers III (born December 24, 1965) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and Grammy-nominated recording engineer. While a student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the 1980s, he collaborated wit ...
– bass, rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2005–present)
Former members
* Steve Bowman – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1991–1994)
*Matt Malley – bass, rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (1991–2005)
*Ben Mize – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1994–2002)
Timeline
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Discography
;Studio albums
*''August and Everything After
''August and Everything After'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released September 14, 1993, on Geffen Records. The album was produced by T Bone Burnett and featured the founding members of the band: Steve Bowman ...
'' (1993)
*''Recovering the Satellites
''Recovering the Satellites'' is the second studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on October 15, 1996, in the United States. Released three years after their debut album (and two years of worldwide touring), it reached No. ...
'' (1996)
*''This Desert Life
''This Desert Life'' is the third studio album from American rock band Counting Crows. The cover art is by noted comic book artist Dave McKean, best known for his work with Neil Gaiman, and was adapted from the cover art McKean did for Gaiman's p ...
'' (1999)
*''Hard Candy
A hard candy (American English), or boiled sweet (British English), is a sugar candy prepared from one or more sugar-based syrups that is heated to a temperature of 160 °C (320 °F) to make candy. Among the many hard candy varietie ...
'' (2002)
*''Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
''Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings'' is the fifth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released in the United States on March 25, 2008. It is thematically divided into two sides: the rock music of ''Saturday Nights'' and the more ...
'' (2008)
*''Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)
''Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on April 10, 2012, on Cooking Vinyl. The album is composed of cover songs, with vocalist Adam Duritz stating, ...
'' (2012)
*''Somewhere Under Wonderland
''Somewhere Under Wonderland'' is the seventh studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on September 2, 2014 in the United States through Capitol Records, and on September 15, 2014 in the UK, through Virgin EMI. It is available ...
'' (2014)
See also
* List of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area
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References
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