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Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz on Surviving the ‘90s

Counting Crows frontman talks about surviving the Nineties, acid flashbacks, and why full albums still matter in 2025

Durtiz sat down in his Manhattan apartment to talk about the long process behind the album, growing up “broken,” an upcoming new documentary on the band, and more. And then I realized, “Oh fuck, it’s that coronavirus song!” I called Immer [multi-instrumentalist David Immerglück], and he’s like “Oh, that’s a cool riff. Certainly “Palisades Park” is about these two kids just discovering their sexuality, dressing differently, that also pops up on “Bobby and the Rat Kings” and other songs.

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