Counting Crows 1993 debut ‘August and Everything After’ finally has a title track.
‘August and Everything After’ was meant to be on the 1993 album but wasn’t finished.
While Adam Duritz hadn’t completed the song for the album, he had most of the lyrics. They end up as the album cover. It was a song you couldn’t hear (until now).
Adam said the song wouldn’t have fit anyway but it could have gone on the following ‘Recovering The Satellites’. At one point he thought it would be fun to leave the title track of every album off the album and put it on the next one. (Spoiler alert: Led Zeppelin did something like that when the song ‘Houses of the Holy’ was left off the ‘Houses of the Holy’ album and placed on the follow-up ‘Physical Graffiti’.
“I never really thought much about this song back in the day because it wasn’t finished. But when we got the chance to work with Vince Mendoza, I thought it was a good time to rewrite it and get it right. He came up with really interesting arrangement – not the whole band or the whole orchestra but parts of each – drums, bass, and pedal steel from us plus the string section and one cor anglais (kinda like a big oboe) from the LSO. It was magic recording it at AIR Studios in London. You can just feel the cool when you listen.”
The recently completed ‘August and Everything After’ is only available currently on Amazon Music.
The ‘August and Everything After’ album was released on 14 September, 1993. It featured the singles ‘Mr Jones’, ‘Round Here’ and ‘Rain King’.
The album sold over 7 million copies in the USA and was also certified Platinum in Australia.
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