- August and Everything After
Infobox Album
Name = August and Everything After
Type = Studio
Artist =Counting Crows
Released = flagicon|USSeptember 14 ,1993 flagicon|UKSeptember 20 ,1993 flagicon|USSeptember 18 ,2007 (Deluxe Edition) flagicon|UKJanuary 28 ,2008 (Deluxe Edition)
Recorded = 1993, Los Angeles
Genre = Rock
Length = 51:42
Label = Geffen
Producer =T-Bone Burnett
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1gdovwxta9qk link] [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:anfexzygldse Deluxe Edition link]
*Robert Christgau (B-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=counting+crows link]
Last album =
This album = "August and Everything After" (1993)
Next album = "Recovering the Satellites " (1996)"August and Everything After" is the first commercially-released
album of the Americanrock band Counting Crows , releasedSeptember 14 ,1993 .The album cover depicts handwritten lyrics to a song called "August and Everything After", but the band decided against featuring the song on the album of the same name; it wasn't until over a decade later that it was played as part of one of their live concerts. A live performance of the song can be viewed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sOd0Bzjqho here] .
On
September 18 ,2007 , a two-disc deluxe edition of the album was issued. The first disc contains the original album, remastered byAdam Ayan andStephen Marcussen , with six songs (including three demos) added as bonus tracks. The second disc is taken from the band's last performance during the "August" tour, recorded at the Élysée Montmartre inParis, France onDecember 9 ,1994 .Track listing
All tracks written by
Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated.
# "Round Here " (Duritz,Dave Janusko ,Dan Jewett ,Chris Roldan ,David Bryson ) – 5:32
# "Omaha" – 3:40
# "Mr. Jones " (Duritz, Bryson) – 4:33
# "Perfect Blue Buildings" – 5:01
# "Anna Begins" (Duritz, Bryson, Marty Jones,Toby Hawkins ,Lydia Holly ) – 4:32
# "Time and Time Again" (Duritz, Bryson,Charlie Gillingham ,Steve Bowman , Don Dixon) – 5:13
# "Rain King" (Duritz, Bryson) – 4:16
# "Sullivan Street" (Duritz, Bryson) – 4:29
# "Ghost Train" – 4:01
# "Raining in Baltimore" – 4:41
# "A Murder of One " (Duritz, Bryson,Matt Malley ) – 5:442007 Deluxe edition additional tracks
- "Shallow Days" – 4:50 Songwriting credits unknown.]
- "Mean Jumper Blues" (
Blind Lemon Jefferson ) – 4:24 - "Love and Addiction" (Demo) – 4:21
- "Omaha" (Demo) – 3:18
- "Shallow Days" (Demo) – 4:41
- "
This Land Is Your Land " (Woody Guthrie ) (Demo) – 3:44
2007 Deluxe edition bonus disc (Live at the Élysée Montmartre)
# "Anna Begins" (Duritz, Bryson, Jones, Hawkins, Holly) – 5:21
# "Omaha" – 3:43
# "Jumping Jesus" – 3:01 Songwriting credits unknown; previously played bySordid Humor , a San Francisco band of which Duritz,Dan Vickrey , Toby Hawkins andDavid Immerglück were members.]
# "Margery Dreams of Horses" – 4:13
# "Perfect Blue Buildings" – 5:18
# "Round Here" (Duritz, Janusko, Jewett, Roldan, Bryson) – 11:45
# "Rain King" (Duritz, Bryson)– 4:49
# "Time and Time Again" (Duritz, Bryson, Gillingham, Bowman, Dixon) – 6:16
# "Ghost Train" – 5:38
# "Children in Bloom" – 5:27
# "A Murder of One" (Duritz, Bryson, Malley)– 14:42
# "Sullivan Street" (Duritz, Bryson) – 5:10
# "The Ghost in You " (Richard Butler,Tim Butler ) – 3:36Personnel
*
Matt Malley – bass, guitar, vocals
*Charlie Gillingham –piano , Hammond B3 organ,accordion , Chamberlan, vocals
*Adam Duritz – vocals, piano,harmonica
*Steve Bowman – drums, vocals
*David Bryson – guitars, vocalsAdditional personnel
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David Immerglück – guitars, mandolins,pedal steel guitar ,mandocello , vocals
*Bill Dillon – guitar,guitorgan
*Denny Fongheiser – percussion, drums on 3
*T-Bone Burnett – guitar
*Gary Louris –backing vocals
*Mark Olson – backing vocals
*Maria McKee – backing vocalsCharts
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