December 11, 1994 brings us to our fourth Christmas visit with Bruce Cockburn and assorted guest stars. This time around, it is the multi-talented songstress and Grammy winner Nanci Griffith. A few years removed from her guest appearance with the Chieftains on their stellar effort An Irish Evening: Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast, […]
Category: Counting Crows
My very special visit to Rally’s
My early evening plans changed slightly tonight, and I found myself heading through the Rally’s drive-thru to grab dinner. Rally’s for dinner is somewhere in the list of the top ten worst things you can do to your body, hanging out with McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and crystal meth. But dang, it is good. I had […]
Good Listening: Counting Crows – Live at the Viper Room – 6/19/95
I will wait for you in Baton Rouge I’ll miss you down in New Orleans I’ll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable And I’ll miss you when I’m slipping in between If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain And if you’re the queen of california Baby, I […]
Good Listening: Counting Crows – Live in Amsterdam – 4/14/94
Counting Crows – The Ghost In You – The Wellmont Theatre Montclair, NJ 10/30/08 I got my hands on August and Everything After in 1993, drawn towards the purchase as many were, by hearing “Mr. Jones” on the radio. As the opening moments of “Round Here” faded in, I knew I had purchased an album […]
Counting Crows – Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings – delayed thoughts on the new album
I’m digging on the new Counting Crows disc Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings. I was a little bit bummed initially, because I thought the album was going to be a real “double album.” When I hear double album, I think of CD 1 and CD 2, and even when you have an album like Wilco’s […]
Counting Crows live on WXPN
Thanks to Heather Browne and the always excellent I Am Fuel, You Are Friends blog, we are once again treated to some great musical goodness. Heather shares quite a bit of great musical stuff, and you can always count on her to keep you in the loop on all things Pearl Jam, Wilco, and in […]