Iona’s Song of the Week - No.23
- ionacali
- Jun 24
- 1 min read
After a few recent selections from the 1970s, I felt that it was time to get a bit more up-to-date, and so we fast-forward to 1991, the year that this band started, but more precisely to 1993, the year of their debut release. As with so many of my vinyl albums, I do not recall how I came across this San Francisco Bay Area ‘beat combo’, but that quote may have given a hint! As alluded to, it was most likely that I was listening to the late, great John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, A.K.A John Peel, he was my main, and at the time, only source of audio music in the UK. His Radio 1 show was legendary around these parts!
Anyway, I digress. This week’s SotW comes from the Counting Crows and their debut album August and Everything After, a piece of work that I still revert to 32 years later! The band name is derived from “One for Sorrow”, a British nursery rhyme about the superstition of counting Magpies, members of the crow family. Singer Adam Duritz heard the rhyme in the film Signs of Life, which starred his close friend, actress Mary-Louise Parker! The derivation of the album’s title is, on the other hand, anyone’s guess!
The band released the song ‘Mr Jones” as their first single from this LP and I nearly chose that one. However, it is to track No. 7 that we head and gently lower the stylus into the first groove of “Rain. King”, hope you like it too……
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