ARTISTS
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Counting Crows featuring Augustana
Counting Crows hail from the San Francisco Bay area and consist of Adam Duritz (vocals), David Bryson (guitar), Charles Gillingham (keyboards), Dan Vickrey (guitar), Jim Bogios (drums), David Immergluck (guitar) and touring bassist Millard Powers. With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, Eight Top 5 singles, and four records having broken the Top 5 on the Billboard 200, Counting Crows success dates back to their 1993 debut release August And Everything After and the hit single “Mr. Jones.”
In 2004, the band released their first ever “Best Of” set Films About Ghosts which featured songs from every phase of the Counting Crow’s recording career and in 2006 a live record was released, New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003. Their most recent record, the double album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings was released to critical and popular acclaim in March 2008. Produced by Gil Norton & Brian Deck, the album presents a duality in form and content: Saturday Nights tracks a dissolution and disintegration into madness and Sunday Mornings shows the attempt at redemption that follows.
Augustana
Augustana is a San Diego, CA based quintet consisting of Dan Layus (vocals, guitar, piano), Jared Palomar (bass, vocals), Justin South (drums), Chris Sachtleben (lead guitar, mandolin, lap steel) and John Vincent Fredericks (piano, Hammond b2, vocals). The band’s latest release, Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt, entered Billboard’s Top 200 at #21 and debuted in the Top 5 at iTunes. It is the follow-up to the band’s 2005 debut record, All the Stars and Boulevards, which reached #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and featured the RIAA-certified digital platinum hit single, “Boston.”
Augustana have made appearances on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and “The Today Show” and have toured with such artists as Snow Patrol, the Stereophonics and Dashboard Confessional.
