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 ...

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 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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

In this reconstituted world of artists releasing recorded music, it’s been a while since Counting Crows hit us with new material, which will be the centerpiece of their upcoming June 29 Jones Beach ...

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 ...

With the advent of Wilmington's new, 7,200-capacity Live Oak Bank Pavilion, which opened in July, a lot of big-name acts are playing the Port City for the first time. The latest is Counting Crows, who ...

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 ...