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 ...

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 ...

For the past few Decembers, I’ve had a very silly but fun (for me at least) tradition on Twitter: Each and every day, I tweet a different lyric from “A Long December” by Counting Crows. I do this ...

With Toad the Wet Sprocket. 7 p.m. Sunday. $35-$55. Chastain Park Amphitheatre, 4469 Stella Drive NW, Atlanta. 1-800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com. Counting Crows arrived in 1993 with not so much a ...

The lyrics in a rock song can be essential. These are three classic rock songs from the 1990s that are more like poetry.

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, ...

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 — ...

If you happen to see Adam Duritz around, the surest conversation starter to go with is to ask him about his chili verde recipe. The pandemic found the Counting Crows frontman hunkering down in New ...

After a five-year break from songwriting, Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz experienced a surge of creativity not long ago, creating an ambitious group of songs that flowed into each other. During ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back during the summer of 2021, Adam Duritz said he was in the process of “tightening up” the songs for the follow-up to Counting ...

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 ...