I'm Brian Hyatt.

This is Rolling Stone Music Now.

Before the year is over, I wanted to bring you this new edit of a seasonally appropriate interview.

My conversation with Adam Duritz of Counting Crows about the making of his band's classic song along December and much more.

Thanks for listening and happy New Year.

We talked about whether long December counts as a holiday song.

I think it does that it fits with the season in its own way. I think there's this big discussion that runs around with everybody trying to

is die hard a Christmas movie. I don't know if it takes place during December and in fact it takes

place during Christmas and if it's Christmas movie to you, you know, then it's Christmas movie.

We were having this discussion the other day because a friend of mine insists that a, that

eyes wide shut is too, and I think, no, it's not.

That's not my Christmas feeling.

There are movies that are Christmas movies, and there are movies that take place in late

December.

Eyes Wide Shut takes place in late December to me.

Long December, though, I mean,

it fits in with my feeling of like songs that conjure up and resonate with times of year

and this particular time of year coming to the end of one. It is cheery in a bittersweet way,

in much the same way that the original like, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is.

In the original lyrics, before Sinatra changed them,

Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas,

Make the Yule Top.

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