In the winter of 1994, Adam Duritz was one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. He was also in the midst of a mental crisis. “When everybody loves me I will never be lonely,” he had sung on “Mr ...

Does Adam Duritz write more about rain or choo-choo trains? Our writer crunches the numbers. (Spreadsheet by Leila Sales, photo by Imeh Akpanudosen / Getty Images) With the Counting Crows’ debut album ...

In the early ’90s, a new Bay Area band called Counting Crows asked David Immerglück to join, and he turned them down. Even though he’d been friends with their singer, Adam Duritz, for years. Oh, ...

Many songwriters have specific lyrical themes that they revisit in song after song. Love, for example. Crying. Dancing. We know the obvious ones. And the Counting Crows are no exception. But the ...