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With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, eight Top 5 singles, and three records that have broken the Top 5 on the Billboard 200, COUNTING CROWS are set to release their long awaited new album SATURDAY NIGHTS & SUNDAY MORNINGS. The record is the Crows' first studio album in almost 5 years, since the release of Hard Candy in 2002. Counting Crows Photos More from Counting Crows August and Everything After [DELUXE EDITION] New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall Films About Ghosts: The Best Of... Hard Candy This Desert Life Across A Wire: Live In New York City Recovering the Satellites August and Everything After Given the churning tides of fashion and fate, six years can often feel more like an eternity in pop music.

Yet Counting Crows' first studio album since 2002 bristles with an urgent energy that makes their creative restlessness almost palpable. The Crows haven't so much reinvented their roots-conscious ethos here, as shrewdly divided it along the album title's thematic lines: "Saturday night is when you sin," explains singer Adam Durwitz "and Sunday is when you regret. Sinning is often done very loudly, angrily, bitterly, violently." Thus, the band indulges itself in a raucously loose-limbed opening half that freewheels from the snarling Gil Norton/Steve Lillywhite produced blast at betrayal "1492," through a Stones-y, left-handed country-rock ode to "Los Angeles," and the irony of "Sundays"' no less pop-savvy angst.

That mood shifts dramatically with the opening acoustic guitar notes of the lovely "Washington Square," heralding a mood of reflective redemption that characterizes the album's closing chapter that showcases the band's potent folk sensibility via the earthy studio aura of Modest Mouse/Iron & Wine producer Brian Deck. If it's only half the long-rumored "unplugged" album so many Crows' fans have anticipated, Durwitz's ever soulful lyrical intrigues, the songs' far-ranging moods and adventurous sonic textures - which encompass the spare, haunting beauty of "Le Ballet d'Or," and even a little of Brian Wilson's harmonic glories on the close of "Anyone But You" - deliver so much more. --Jerry McCulley

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    Great album. A different direction for Counting Crows with more of an Americana/alt-country feel to it. One of their top 3 albums!
    
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    Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is the fifth studio album by Counting Crows, released in the United States on March 25, 2008. It is thematically divided into two sides: the rock music of Saturday... more
    
    Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is the fifth studio album by Counting Crows, released in the United States on March 25, 2008. It is thematically divided into two sides: the rock music of Saturday Nights and the more country-influenced Sunday Mornings. Vocalist and lyricist Adam Duritz states that the album "is about really wanting to mean something and failing to do it. You want your life to mean something. You want to be somebody and then what you turn out to be is so much less than what you thought you were going to be. Good words from Duritz, don't you?
    
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    Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is the fifth studio album by Counting Crows, released in the United States on March 25, 2008. It is thematically divided into two sides: the rock music of Saturday Nights and the more country-influenced Sunday Mornings. Vocalist and lyricist Adam Duritz states that the album "is about really wanting to mean something and failing to do it. You want your life to mean something. You want to be somebody and then what you turn out to be is so much less than what you thought you were going to be. Good words from Duritz, don't you?
    
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With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, eight Top 5 singles, and three records that have broken the Top 5 on the Billboard 200, COUNTING CROWS are set to release their long awaited new album SATURDAY NIGHTS & SUNDAY MORNINGS. The record is the Crows' first studio album in almost 5 years, since the release of Hard Candy in 2002. Counting Crows Photos <table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="6"> <tr align="center"> <td><img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/Crows1thumb.jpg" width="125" border="0"></td> <td><img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/Crows2thumb.jpg" width="125" border="0"></td> <td><img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/Crows3thumb.jpg" width="125" border="0"></td><td><img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/Crows4thumb.jpg" width="125" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="6"> <tr align="center"> <td><img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/Crows5thumb.jpg" width="125" border="0"></td> <td><img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/Crows6thumb.jpg" width="125" border="0"></td> <td><img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/Crows7thumb.jpg" width="125" border="0"></td><td><img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/Crows8thumb.jpg" width="125" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> More from Counting Crows <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny"> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000UAE862.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"> August and Everything After [DELUXE EDITION]</td> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000FII32O.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"> New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall</td> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00068NWRE.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"> Films About Ghosts: The Best Of...</td> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000068PBZ.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"> Hard Candy</td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny"> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00002JXF8.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"> This Desert Life</td> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000008USI.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"> Across A Wire: Live In New York City</td> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000OVA.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"> Recovering the Satellites</td> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003TAP.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0"> August and Everything After</td> </tr> </table>Given the churning tides of fashion and fate, six years can often feel more like an eternity in pop music. Yet Counting Crows' first studio album since 2002 bristles with an urgent energy that makes their creative restlessness almost palpable. The Crows haven't so much reinvented their roots-conscious ethos here, as shrewdly divided it along the album title's thematic lines: "Saturday night is when you sin," explains singer Adam Durwitz "and Sunday is when you regret. Sinning is often done very loudly, angrily, bitterly, violently." Thus, the band indulges itself in a raucously loose-limbed opening half that freewheels from the snarling Gil Norton/Steve Lillywhite produced blast at betrayal "1492," through a Stones-y, left-handed country-rock ode to "Los Angeles," and the irony of "Sundays"' no less pop-savvy angst. That mood shifts dramatically with the opening acoustic guitar notes of the lovely "Washington Square," heralding a mood of reflective redemption that characterizes the album's closing chapter that showcases the band's potent folk sensibility via the earthy studio aura of Modest Mouse/Iron & Wine producer Brian Deck. If it's only half the long-rumored "unplugged" album so many Crows' fans have anticipated, Durwitz's ever soulful lyrical intrigues, the songs' far-ranging moods and adventurous sonic textures - which encompass the spare, haunting beauty of "Le Ballet d'Or," and even a little of Brian Wilson's harmonic glories on the close of "Anyone But You" - deliver so much more. --Jerry McCulley

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