Counting Crows - Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)

Het nieuwe album van Counting Crows bevat een verzameling liedjes van anderen, maar het predikaat ‘coveralbum’ zou te gemakkelijk zijn. Zanger Adam Duritz verwoordt het als volgt:  “There are a million great songs written every day, many on records you discover that you wish your friends could appreciate as much as you do.” De band heeft haar favoriete nummers uitgezocht en zo goed als live opgenomen. Het is een eerbetoon aan iconen als Bob Dylan en Gram Parsons, maar ook aan  indie pop helden als Teenage Fanclub en Travis. Ook de pre-Crows projecten Sorid Humor en Tender Mercies komen aan bod.

“You may or may not know these songs,” Duritz concedes. “It wasn’t an intentional theme, but it did sort of fall out that a lot of the songs on this record aren’t well-known. The songs on Underwater Sunshine come from old bands and young, they stretch from the early ’60s to earlier this year, and they were recorded for major labels, for indies and, in some cases, for just a few friends to hear. Either way, they’re all great songs, and hopefully they’ll be heard by a few more people now.”

ALBUM TRACK LIST

1.  Untitled (Love Song) by The Romany Rye

2. Start Again by Teenage Fanclub

3. Hospital by Coby Brown

4. Mercy by Tender Mercies

5. Meet On The Ledge by Fairport Convention

6. Like Teenage Gravity by Kasey Anderson & The Honkies

7. Amie by Pure Prarie League

8. Coming Around by Travis

9. Ooh La La by The Faces

10.All My Failures by Dawes

11.Return Of The Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons

12.Four White Stallions by Tender Mercies

13.Jumping Jesus by Sordid Humor

14.You Ain`t Going Nowhere by Bob Dylan (originally recorded by The Byrds)

15.The Ballad Of El Goodo by Big Star