August And Everything After Counting Crows

• 1 Round Here 05:31
• 2 Omaha 03:40
• 3 Mr. Jones 04:34
• 4 Perfect Blue Buildings 05:01
• 5 Anna Begins 04:32
• 6 Time And Time Again 05:14
• 7 Rain King 04:16
• 8 Sullivan Street 04:30
• 9 Ghost Train 04:06
• 10 Raining In Baltimore 04:41
• 11 A Murder Of One 05:43
• Total Runtime 51:48

Info zu August And Everything After

Counting Crows were formed in 1991 but it took them 2 years hard graft to put together their debut album, August and Everything After, which was finally released by Geffen in 1993 and features the hit singles “Mr Jones” and “Round Here”. The band were relatively unknown when an enthusiastic Robbie Robertson introduced them as stand-ins for the erstwhile Van Morrison at the 1993 Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. Released in September 1993, the album was produced by T. Bone Burnett and mixed by long time R.E.M. cohort Pat McCarthy. Its contents are dark and somber and are driven by the gruff vocals and morose lyrics written by singer Adam Duritz. The album cover depicts handwritten lyrics to a song called 'August and Everything After', but the band decided against featuring the song on the album of the same name; it was not until over a decade later that it was played as part of one of their live concerts.

„An artfully crafted, intimate song cycle, August and Everything After seemed to explode on impact. Vividly produced by T Bone Burnett, its post-punk bleakness married to old-school rock influences, August became that rare album over which both alterna-kids and classic rockers could bond. Sure, there are a few moments when you can hear how badly the Crows want to be Van Morrison, the Band, R.E.M. and, yes, Bob Dylan, but those don't offset the divine inspiration of 'Rain King,' 'Round Here' and 'A Murder of One.' (Rolling Stone)

Matt Malley, vocals, guitar, bass
David Bryson, vocals, guitar
Charlie Gillingham, vocals, accordion, piano, Hammond B-3 organ
Adam Duritz, vocals, piano, harmonica
Steve Bowman, vocals, drums

Additional musicians:
David Immergluck, guitar, pedal steel mandocello, background vocals
Bill Dillon, guitar, guitorgan
T-Bone Burnett, guitar
Denny Fongheiser, drums, percussion
Maria McKee, background vocals
Gary Louris, background vocals
Mark Olson, background vocals

Recorded in the living room of our big house on a hill in Los Angeles
Overdubs at Kiva West Recording Studios, Conway Recording Studios, Village Recorders, Sunset Sound, Los Angeles
Mixed at Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles
Mastered at Precision Mastering, Los Angeles, CA
Produced by T-Bone Burnett

Digitally remastered

Counting Crows
With their angst-filled hybrid of Van Morrison, the Band, and R.E.M., Counting Crows became an overnight sensation in 1994. Only a year earlier, the band was a group of unknown musicians, filling in for the absent Van Morrison at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony; they were introduced by an enthusiastic Robbie Robertson. Early in 1993, the band recorded its debut album, August and Everything After, with T-Bone Burnett. Released in the fall, it was a dark and somber record, driven by the morose lyrics and expressive vocals of Adam Duritz. The only uptempo song, "Mr. Jones," became their ticket to stardom, and Counting Crows enjoyed a significant amount of success throughout the '90s and beyond.

What made Counting Crows unique was how they were able to balance Duritz's tortured lyrics with the sound of the late '60s and early '70s; it made them one of the few alternative bands to appeal to listeners who thought that rock & roll died in 1972. Recovering the Satellites followed in 1996, and "A Long December" was a Top Ten hit on both the Modern Rock and Adult Top 40 charts. The band issued the two-disc Across a Wire: Live in New York in 1998, and the following year saw the release of Counting Crows' third studio album, This Desert Life. In the midst of recording and collaborating with Ryan Adams on his sophomore album, Gold, Duritz joined his band in the studio as well. The fruit of those sessions was the Steve Lillywhite-produced fourth album, Hard Candy.

The next year saw the release of the best-of Films About Ghosts, and in 2004 Counting Crows reminded fans of their ability to write a hit single with "Accidentally in Love," which appeared on the Shrek 2 soundtrack. Two years later, New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall, recorded from a show on February 6, 2003, was made available to the public. In 2008 the band issued Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings, a concept record divided into two halves: the more rowdy, upbeat rock of Saturday night soundtracks and the mellow alt-country side of Sunday morning hangovers.

In 2009 the band parted ways with their longtime major-label home Geffen Records, but continued to tour and write new material as feverishly as ever. Duritz struggled with mental problems and prescription drug addiction following the split with Geffen, working on solo material that he released in part online. August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall, the band's third official live album, was released in 2011. To tide fans over until the release of an album of new material, the band offered up a collection of cover songs entitled Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation) in 2012 and yet another live album, Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow, the following year.

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