Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings

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Saturday Nights, Sunday Mornings is the tentative title for the forthcoming fifth studio album from Counting Crows.

According to guitarist Dan Vickrey, the album will perhaps be a double album, stating in a previous interview: "The idea at the moment is to have kind of a rocking side and then an acoustic-y, maybe country-ish side."

Frontman Adam Duritz previously confirmed that the former half of the record is produced by Gil Norton, the producer behind Recovering the Satellites. Duritz explained the working title:

"Saturday night is when you sin and Sunday is when you regret. Sinning is often done very loudly, angrily, bitterly, violently."

Duritz later added: "The end of 'Saturday Nights' is '1492' -- probably the hardest, darkest song we've ever played. It's about my utter disintegration -- alcohol and blow jobs in underground bars in Italy and a total loss of self. 'Sunday Mornings' is not about redemption, but how you come out of degradation."

The album consists of 14 tracks, 6 of which fall on the Saturday Nights half of the album.

Duritz indicated on a March 16, 2007 entry on his official blog that Brian Deck is the producer of the latter half of the album, who is perhaps best known for his production work with Modest Mouse on their record, The Moon and Antarctica.

On May 10, 2007, Duritz confirmed on his blog that the band has completed recording of "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" and that the mixing phase began the following Sunday. In July 2007, since beginning the Rock 'N Roll Triple Play Ballpark Tour with Live and Collective Soul, Duritz confirmed a tentative November 2007 release date for Saturday Nights, Sunday Mornings. On September 27, 2007, Duritz announced on his blog that the band had asked its record label to postpone the album's release until early 2008. Duritz cited the time pressures involved in preparing both the new album and the deluxe edition of August and Everything After for release.

A new song, tentatively titled "Washington Square", was previewed at their July 25th, 2007 performance in Washington, Pennsylvania at US Consol Energy Park, during one of their encores. It is an acoustic ballad that is likely to appear on the latter half ("Sunday Morning") of the new record.

Other current tentative song titles for the new record include "Come Around," "Cowboys," "Anyone But You," "You Can't Count on Me," "Hanging Tree," "Insignificant," "When I Dream of Michelangelo," "1492," and "Suffocate," the origins of some predate Recovering the Satellites.

At the Louisville, Kentucky show on their 2007 summer tour, Adam stated that "Cowboys" was the first song on the Saturday Nights portion of the disc and "Washington Square" was the first song on Sunday Mornings. Another new song, "Insignificant" was also played and he stated it would be the second track on Saturday Nights.

Saturday Nights

1. "Cowboys" 5:20
   "Cowboys" on YouTube 5:21
2. "Insignificant"
3. "Hanging Tree"
4. "Sundays"
5. "1492"
6. "Los Angeles"

Sunday Mornings

1. "Washington Square"
2. "When I Dream of Michelangelo"
3. "You Can't Count on Me"
4. "On Almost Any Sunday Morning"
5. "Anyone But You"
6. "Le Ballet D'Or"
7. "On a Tuesday in Amsterdam Long Ago"
8. "Come Around"