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Counting Crows New Album Influenced By Paul McCartney
07/05/2002 3:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Mark Armstrong
(7/5/02, 3 p.m. ET) -- A former Beatle had a marked influence on the new Counting Crows album Hard Candy, which comes out Tuesday (July 9).
Crows frontman Adam Duritz tells LAUNCH that his goal to make the songs on the album punchier and more focused was inspired by a chat with Paul McCartney that gave Duritz a fresh appreciation for the craft of songwriting.
"I'd had this conversation with Paul McCartney a couple of years ago at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and I just left the conversation thinking, 'Man, what a treasure the guy is,' and so underrated, I think, and underappreciated at times. To, like, write a melody that sticks in someone's head for 40 years--I mean, how the hell do people do that? I thought, 'Well, I want to really concentrate on that for this record. Every song has to have a great melody. That's the starting point,'" he says.
Hard Candy features guest appearances by Sheryl Crow on the single "American Girls" and cameos by Ryan Adams and Matthew Sweet.
The Crows--who recently finished a stint opening for the Who--are slated to play a concert on Saturday (July 13) at Irving Plaza in New York City. The group has a European tour slated for August, with North American dates expected in the fall.
-- Gary Graff, Detroit
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