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Counting Crows
Frontman Adam Duritz on mental illness, dairy produce, romance, the band’s new EP and shaving off his dreads.
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ON COUNTING CROWS’ 1993 album August And Everything After, band leader Adam Duritz announced his quietly devastating songcraft, sketching broken lives in small towns and hollow dreams of fame with an eloquence worthy of Bruce Springsteen.
True to the sentiment of breakthrough hit Mr. Jones, stardom hasn’t always suited the singer, who is open about his struggles with mental illness. But Duritz says this year’s Butter Miracle, Suite One, the band's four-song EP, which has shades of The Band and Mott The Hoople, is the product of the happiest period of his life.