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(More customer reviews)It's funny, revisiting an album in your new body with eyes and ears far aged from when you first encountered it (nay, became obsessed with it). such is the case with the Counting Crows deluxe edition of August and Everything After playing as I type this. They've cleaned up the masters and it does sound noticeably fuller. The extras are very nice from the demo-side and the complete concert from Paris in 1994.
But worth the entire somewhat overpriced cost of admission for the package is the liner notes. Adam's confessional tale of the signing, recording and subsequent shattering of the band from 1991 to December of 1994 (where the Disc 2 comes in) is an interesting and at times very emotional read. You forget how big Counting Crows actually was, and even more than that, you likely didn't know how close some of the musical families were (i.e. the idea of Adam Duritz at a backyard lunch with Frances Bean). The small tales are very much worth digesting, if sometimes over-written. It's probably best that Adam wrote these out instead of letting someone else interpret it in a syrupy documentary or fluffy autobiography. And while I didn't need a mini-poster of Adam in a pretty absurdly good photo shoot with some birds in motion, by the end of the notes you realize why it's there and it's pretty cool.
A nice double disc, and I'm glad I didn't do the iTunes thing, missing the liner notes.
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* The 7 million selling classic album expanded to two discs * Includes previously unreleased demos, including a version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" * Features a previously unreleased 79 minutes-plus Paris concert -- last show of the massive "August & Everything After" world tour * Booklet includes fold-out poster & extensive liner notes by Counting Crows' Adam Duritz
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