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 ...

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 ...

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 couldn’t be happier to be back in Australia.

Even when Counting Crows released its biggest albums two decades ago, its music had a lasting quality to it: The instrumentation richer, the subject matter deeper, the style far more timeless than ...

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 ...

As Counting Crows were getting set to record the songs for what became their debut album, 1993's August and Everything After, Robbie Robertson offered some important advice at a time when they really ...

A lot of artists come to view the song that made them famous as an albatross they’re forced to deal with every time they do a show. But Adam Duritz still loves playing “Mr. Jones,” the breakthrough ...

Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz is known for writing intensely personal and introspective songs. That type of songwriting, he says, comes easily to him. But writing an original song for ...

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 ...