Adam Duritz

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Adam Duritz is no stranger to the spotlight. Counting Crows’ 1993 debut album, August And Everything After, sold over seven million copies in the U.S. Singles released from the album including “Mr. Jones” and “Round Here” dominated radio and MTV at the time. But all the exposure wasn’t great for the band, and according to Duritz, it led critics to focus more on Durtitz’s star-studded dating life, than the band’s music.

Regardless, Counting Crows have continued to release music over the last three decades and this month they are putting out their latest album, Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!

Today we’ll hear Adam Duritz talk in-depth about his life-long struggle with mental health and how his dissociative disorder has impacted his ability to connect with people off-stage. You can pre-save The Counting Crows new album here. And check out their new video for “Under The Aurora” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMzFO8CAmK0&feature=youtu.be

You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite Counting Crows songs here.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:10.8	Hey everyone.
0:12.2	Today, Broken Records producer Leah Rose talks to Adam Duritz, the lead singer of Counting Crows.
0:18.4	Adam Duritz is no stranger to the spotlight.
0:21.4	Counting Crows' 1993 debut album, August and Everything After, sold over 7 million copies in the U.S.
0:28.5	Singles released from the album, including Mr. Jones around here, dominated radio and MTV at the time.
0:35.0	But all the exposure wasn't great for the band, and according to Duritz, it led
0:38.6	critics to focus more on Durit's star-studded dating life than the band's music. They've continued
0:44.6	to release music over the last three decades, and this month, Counting Crows, put out their
0:48.5	latest album called Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets. Today we'll hear Adam Dur'Rourts talk in-depth with Leah Rose about his lifelong struggle
0:56.6	with mental health and about how his disassociative disorder has impacted his ability to connect
1:01.3	with people offstage.
1:05.2	This is Broken Record.
1:07.4	Real musicians, real conversations.
1:14.6	Music Real musicians, real conversations. Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley season one.
1:22.2	Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
1:26.8	I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.
1:31.6	At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.
1:34.3	Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley Season 2 starting April 9th on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:44.9	If you want to see the full video of this conversation, visit YouTube.com
1:48.7	slash broken record podcast. Now here's Leah Rose with Adam Durrance.
1:54.3	So how is it feeling being back in the promo world?
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