Counting Crows - August and Everything After (w/ guest Frank Lettieri)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Musician Frank Lettieri (dustofdays.bandcamp.com) joins Bill and Brian as we finally set to tackling Counting Crows' August and Everything After (1993, Geffen). Frank talks about having this album gifted to him as a part of a long tradition of uncles introducing nephews to cool music. Then Bill, Brian, and Frank discuss what one of the engineers on the album shared about the equipment used to record the album, the importance of the band's SNL performance in January of 1994, Adam Duritz's exquisite cafe poetry, how producer T-Bone Burnett influenced the overall sound of the recording, the underrated rhythm section of Steve Bowman and Matt Malley, Charlie Gillingham as a Benmont Tench-esque secret weapon, David Bryson's memorable guitar hooks, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.5	1993's, August and Everything After by Counting Crows.
0:27.4	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:29.8	We try to get into the how and the why conversation that fans have.
0:35.8	Yeah, like when you're just sitting around or driving in the car
0:39.2	and just chit-chatting about music, not necessarily spewing every single little factoid,
0:45.8	just a more casual, like, this is what I like about this record. And we eventually get to
0:51.0	a track-by-track review of the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, I like it. And we're not
0:55.3	going to be doing it alone this week, Brian. No, no, this week we are joined in the studio by Frank
1:00.8	Latiri Jr. of Dust of Days and the Paper Jets. Yeah, and we actually had him come on because,
1:07.4	one, he's a big fan of Counting Crows. Two, he has a new album coming out.
1:13.2	Yeah, it's coming out on June 16th via Aqualung Records.
1:16.8	An imprint started by the great album's own Jeff Feedler.
1:20.4	He's our primary blogger.
1:22.7	So they kind of teamed up and, you know, Frank brought the music to Jeff.
1:27.0	And Jeff's like's like yeah I'm
1:28.2	going to have to start a record label literally start one so that you so this this album has a more
1:36.8	solid avenue to get out into the world so you'll hear a little bit more about Dust of Days
1:41.9	and that album when we get to our conversation with Frank.
1:45.9	But in the meantime, guys, we're finally doing it.
1:49.6	Counting Crows, August and Everything After.
1:51.9	This is one of our most requested albums to talk about of all time.
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