August and Everything After is the debut studio album by American
rock band
Counting Crows, released September 14, 1993, on
Geffen Records. The album was produced by
T Bone Burnett and featured the founding members of the band:
Steve Bowman (drums),
David Bryson (guitar),
Adam Duritz (vocals),
Charlie Gillingham (keyboards), and
Matt Malley (bass). Among the several session musicians used for the album was multi-instrumentalist
David Immerglück, who later joined the band as a full-time member in 1999, as well as Burnett, who also provided additional guitar work.
Four singles were released from the album, the highest charting of which was "
Mr. Jones", which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard US Radio Songs Chart and number 2 on several genre-specific Billboard charts.[2] The album itself was well received by critics and has gone multi-platinum in several countries, including the U.S. where it has sold over seven million copies, and peaked at number 4 on the
Billboard 200 album chart.
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; it was not until over a decade later that it was played as part of one of their live concerts. The song "August and Everything After" was released on January 24, 2019, as an Amazon Original.[3]
On September 18, 2007, a two-disc
deluxe edition of the album was issued. The first disc contains the original album, remastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering, with six
demos added as bonus tracks. The second disc is taken from the band's penultimate performance during the August tour, recorded at
Élysée Montmartre in
Paris, France, on December 9, 1994.
The album August & Everything After: Live at Town Hall was released on August 29, 2011, featuring live recordings of the songs from this album. More than 6 million copies of the album have been sold by February 2002 in the US.[4]
The Washington Post wrote: "Enlisting accordions, mandolin, pedal steel, and harmonica to flavor the usual rock instrumentation, the Crows play transliterated Celtic-rock not unlike
the Hooters'. Such music seems to require a sense of self importance, and the quintet is not lacking".[15]
Track listing
Original release
All tracks are written by
Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated.
August and Everything After is the debut studio album by American
rock band
Counting Crows, released September 14, 1993, on
Geffen Records. The album was produced by
T Bone Burnett and featured the founding members of the band:
Steve Bowman (drums),
David Bryson (guitar),
Adam Duritz (vocals),
Charlie Gillingham (keyboards), and
Matt Malley (bass). Among the several session musicians used for the album was multi-instrumentalist
David Immerglück, who later joined the band as a full-time member in 1999, as well as Burnett, who also provided additional guitar work.
Four singles were released from the album, the highest charting of which was "
Mr. Jones", which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard US Radio Songs Chart and number 2 on several genre-specific Billboard charts.[2] The album itself was well received by critics and has gone multi-platinum in several countries, including the U.S. where it has sold over seven million copies, and peaked at number 4 on the
Billboard 200 album chart.
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; it was not until over a decade later that it was played as part of one of their live concerts. The song "August and Everything After" was released on January 24, 2019, as an Amazon Original.[3]
On September 18, 2007, a two-disc
deluxe edition of the album was issued. The first disc contains the original album, remastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering, with six
demos added as bonus tracks. The second disc is taken from the band's penultimate performance during the August tour, recorded at
Élysée Montmartre in
Paris, France, on December 9, 1994.
The album August & Everything After: Live at Town Hall was released on August 29, 2011, featuring live recordings of the songs from this album. More than 6 million copies of the album have been sold by February 2002 in the US.[4]
The Washington Post wrote: "Enlisting accordions, mandolin, pedal steel, and harmonica to flavor the usual rock instrumentation, the Crows play transliterated Celtic-rock not unlike
the Hooters'. Such music seems to require a sense of self importance, and the quintet is not lacking".[15]
Track listing
Original release
All tracks are written by
Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated.