August and Everything After

August and Everything After
Studio album by Counting Crows
Released	September 14, 1993 (1993-09-14)
Recorded	1993, Los Angeles
Genre	Rock
Length	51:42
Label	Geffen
Producer	T-Bone Burnett
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Counting Crows chronology
August and Everything After (1993) Recovering the Satellites (1996)

August and Everything After is the first commercially-released album of the American rock band Counting Crows, released September 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 here.

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 and Stephen Marcussen, with six songs (including three demos) added as bonus tracks. The second disc is taken from the band's penultimate performance during the August tour, recorded at the Elysée Montmartre in Paris, France on December 9, 1994.

Track listing

All tracks written by Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated.

1. "Round Here" (Duritz, Dave Janusko, Dan Jewett, Chris Roldan, David Bryson) – 5:32
2. "Omaha" – 3:40
3. "Mr. Jones" (Duritz, Bryson) – 4:33
4. "Perfect Blue Buildings" – 5:01
5. "Anna Begins" (Duritz, Bryson, Marty Jones, Toby Hawkins, Lydia Holly) – 4:32
6. "Time and Time Again" (Duritz, Bryson, Charlie Gillingham, Steve Bowman, Don Dixon) – 5:13
7. "Rain King" (Duritz, Bryson) – 4:16
8. "Sullivan Street" (Duritz, Bryson) – 4:29
9. "Ghost Train" – 4:01
10. "Raining in Baltimore" – 4:41
11. "A Murder of One" (Duritz, Bryson, Matt Malley) – 5:44

2007 deluxe edition additional tracks

12. "Shallow Days" – 4:50^[1]
13. "Mean Jumper Blues" (Blind Lemon Jefferson) – 4:24
14. "Love and Addiction" (Demo) – 4:21^[1]
15. "Omaha" (Demo) – 3:18
16. "Shallow Days" (Demo) – 4:41^[1]
17. "This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie) (Demo) – 3:44

2007 deluxe edition bonus disc (Live at the Elysée Montmartre)

1. "Anna Begins" (Duritz, Bryson, Jones, Hawkins, Holly) – 5:21
2. "Omaha" – 3:43
3. "Jumping Jesus" – 3:01 ^[2]
4. "Margery Dreams of Horses" – 4:13 ^[2]
5. "Perfect Blue Buildings" – 5:18
6. "Round Here" (Duritz, Janusko, Jewett, Roldan, Bryson) – 11:45
7. "Rain King" (Duritz, Bryson)– 4:49
8. "Time and Time Again" (Duritz, Bryson, Gillingham, Bowman, Dixon) – 6:16
9. "Ghost Train" – 5:38
10. "Children in Bloom" – 5:27
11. "A Murder of One" (Duritz, Bryson, Malley)– 14:42
12. "Sullivan Street" (Duritz, Bryson) – 5:10
13. "The Ghost in You" (Richard Butler, Tim Butler) – 3:36

Personnel

• Matt Malley – bass guitar, guitar, vocals
• Charlie Gillingham – piano, Hammond B3 organ, accordion, Chamberlin, vocals
• Adam Duritz – vocals, piano, harmonica
• Steve Bowman – drums, vocals
• David Bryson – guitars, vocals

Additional personnel

• 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 vocals

Charts

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Certifications

Release history

After its initial United States release, August and Everything After was released in the United Kingdom on September 20, 1993. The anniversary edition went on sale in the United States on September 18, 2007 and the United Kingdom on January 28, 2008.

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