Back in the day, it seemed that Counting Crows were built to last. Right when modern rock's rougher side was all over mainstream radio, this group of Berkeley, Calif., musicians incorporated accordion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the Counting Crows’ debut album, 1993’s August and Everything After, Duritz established the topics that mattered to him, and ...

Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz says he used to write songs all the time. But following the release of the band’s 1993 debut, August and Everything After, his output slowed down. “I had no choice, ...

It might be hard to imagine, but for a time in the 1990s Counting Crows were maybe the biggest band in the world. Lead singer Adam Duritz was singing his emotional, poetic lyrics while dating some of ...

Many songwriters have specific lyrical themes that they revisit in song after song. Love, for example. Crying. Dancing. We know the obvious ones. And the Counting Crows are no exception. But the ...