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Counting Crows
Label: Geffen Records
Website: http://countingcrows.com
Audio: http://www.myspace.com/countingcrows
Duritz hinted in a number of interviews that Counting Crows' next studio record would be released in late 2007. He indicated that the band recently had spent three weeks working in a recording studio with Gil Norton, the producer behind Recovering the Satellites. On September 27, 2007, Duritz announced on his blog that the band had asked its record label to postpone the album's release until early 2008, citing the time pressures involved in preparing both the new album and the August and Everything After deluxe edition for release.Duritz revealed the working title of the album to be Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, explaining, "Saturday night is when you sin and Sunday is when you regret. Sinning is often done very loudly, angrily, bitterly, violently." Vickrey has stated that "the idea at the moment is to have kind of a rocking side and then an acoustic-y, maybe country-ish side. We got the first half done in May in New York, so half of it is pretty strong and done. And now we're going to work on the second half, the country tunes, during the tour."
On July 22, 2007 at Daniel S. Frawley Stadium in Wilmington Delaware, Duritz revealed that the band was to release a deluxe version of August and Everything After in the fall. A new song was also previewed at the concert, titled "Washington Square"; an acoustic ballad that is the first track on the latter half ("Sunday Mornings") of the new record. Also played was "Cowboys," the first track off the first half ("Saturday Nights") of the new album. "Insignificant" was stated by Adam to be the second track on the "Saturday Nights" portion of the album.
On August 8, 2007, VH1 was on hand to film a live performance of "Mr. Jones", clips of that performance were shown on the VH1 miniseries 100 Greatest Songs of the 90's. VH1 ranked "Mr. Jones" at 27 on the list of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 90's.
Other current tentative song titles for the new record include "Come
Around", "Hanging Tree", "Anyone But You," "You Can't Count On Me,"
"1492," and "When I Dream of Michelangelo." On September 18, 2007, Counting Crows played a show at Town Hall in New York City, during which they played August and Everything After from beginning to end. They also played several songs from Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings. This show was recorded for an upcoming DVD release.The band announced on December 21, 2007 that the album will be released in the U.S. on March 25, 2008.
On January 16, 2008,
the band released a digital EP on their official web-site to precede
the release of the album, as a free download. It features "1492" from the "Saturday Nights" half of the disc and "When I Dream Of Michelangelo" from the "Sunday Mornings" half as its B-side.
The lead single "You Can't Count On Me", a track from the "Sunday Mornings" half of the record, was released on February 5, 2008.
Audio:
You Can¹t Count on Me
You can order 'Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings' here. and here.
