{"id":792378,"date":"2019-01-25T07:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784198"},"modified":"2019-01-25T07:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:52:31","slug":"counting-crows-finally-record-title-track-to-august-and-everything-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/counting-crows-finally-record-title-track-to-august-and-everything-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Crows Finally Record Title Track to \u2018August and Everything After\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two months ago, shortly after the conclusion of their European tour, Counting Crows<\/a> entered London\u2019s AIR studios and recorded \u201cAugust and Everything After\u201d with the London Studio Orchestra. That doesn\u2019t mean they played their 1993 debut LP of the same name, but rather an outtake from the sessions that gave the album its title. The missing title track has taken on near-mythic status amongst Counting Crows fans over the past quarter century, but frontman Adam Duritz never truly finished the song until just a few months ago when Amazon approached him about teaming up with an orchestra. You can hear the completed track right below.<\/p>\n

\u201cAugust and Everything After\u201d was one of many lyric ideas in the notebook of Adam Duritz back when the band first entered the studio in early 1993, but his efforts to record the nine-minute song never went anywhere. \u201cIt was just me on the piano, which was probably a bad arrangement for it,\u201d says Duritz. \u201cThere were holes in the lyrics and that really weighed it down. The whole thing was just lumbering. We had to toss it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The title, however, stuck around his mind and became the name of the album. \u201cI was born in August,\u201d says Duritz. \u201cThe record was about everything that happened after that. I loved the title more than I liked the song, quite honestly. But we did include some of my handwritten lyrics to it on the cover since I didn\u2019t want to include anything that we were actually using.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song remained little more than a rumor among Counting Crows fans until a random show at San Francisco\u2019s Warfield in December of 2003 when the band attempted to play it live. Duritz felt the result was \u201ckind of meh,\u201d but it became a popular bootleg in the fan community. Two years later, when they played the Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, they decided to give it another go. By that point, he\u2019d actually lost the original cassette of the demo and had to ask fans online to send him an MP3 so he could decipher the lyrics.<\/p>\n

That seemed to be the end of the \u201cAugust and Everything After\u201d saga since it dropped out of their live repertoire for the next 13 years, but in late 2018 Amazon approached them about recording \u201cThe Long December\u201d with a symphony as an Amazon exclusive for the month of December. That idea didn\u2019t appeal to Duritz (\u201cthat song wouldn\u2019t benefit from an orchestral arrangement\u201d), so he countered with the idea of finally getting a proper rendition of \u201cAugust and Everything After\u201d on tape. His only condition was that composer Vince Mendoza \u2014 who they worked with at the 2005 Hollywood Bowl show \u2014 oversee the session.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved Vince\u2019s arrangement of the song,\u201d says Duritz, who rewrote about a third of the lyrics before the session. \u201cHe conceived of this kind of bizarre instrumentation of our band band with just bass, drums and pedal steel. Then there\u2019s a 22-piece string section and one woodwind, a big oboe. It all fit together perfectly. We played live and got it in just five or so takes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The session came after a long year of live work for Counting Crows, who haven\u2019t taken a break from the road since 2011. This year, however, they\u2019re finally staying home. No shows are planned beyond a handful of festivals and other special gigs. Duritz is using the free time to write material for the follow-up to the band\u2019s 2014 LP Somewhere Under Wonderland<\/em>. \u201cCapitol did a magnificent job promoting that record and it still barely did a blip,\u201d he says. \u201cMaking an impact on the culture takes more these days than just sending an album out to radio and putting videos on YouTube.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not sure how he wants to get out the next album, but he knows it\u2019s time for a change. \u201cWe need to branch out,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019ll be interesting to see how this partnership with Amazon goes. If it goes well, maybe they\u2019ll be interested. I want to look into as many options as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two months ago, shortly after the conclusion of their European tour, Counting Crows entered London\u2019s AIR studios and recorded \u201cAugust and Everything After\u201d with the London Studio Orchestra. That doesn\u2019t mean they played their 1993 debut LP of the same name, but rather an outtake from the sessions that gave the album its title. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 22:13:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}