Counting Crows - This Desert Life (1999)

Counting Crows - This Desert Life (1999)

Tracklist front / back album covers

Counting Crows - This Desert Life

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"Hanginaround" (Duritz, Dan Vickrey, Ben Mize, David Bryson) – 4:07

"Mrs. Potter's Lullaby"  – 7:46

"Amy Hit the Atmosphere" (Duritz, Matt Malley) – 4:36

"Four Days" – 3:28

"All My Friends" – 4:49

"High Life" (Duritz, Vickrey) – 6:20

"Colorblind" (Duritz, Charlie Gillingham) – 3:23

"I Wish I Was a Girl" (Duritz, Gillingham) – 5:53

"Speedway" (Duritz, Vickrey) – 3:44

"St. Robinson in His Cadillac Dream" – 15:40

"Kid Things" (hidden track)

The CD cover lists tracks one through five as "side one" and tracks six through ten as "side two". "Kid Things" is a hidden track as part of "St. Robinson in His Cadillac Dream". The vinyl release of this album also contains "Kid Things" as a hidden track along with another hidden track called "Baby I'm a Big Star Now", which is featured in the film Rounders. They are both on the side D with a text asking you not to play that side

"Colorblind" was featured in the 1999 movie Cruel Intentions and the 2014 film Mommy

Counting Crows Band Members / Musicians

Dave Bryson – guitar, slide guitar

Adam Duritz – vocals, piano, art direction

Charlie Gillingham – synthesizer, piano, Hammond organ, Mellotron, guitar, Chamberlin, Wurlitzer, vocals

David Immerglück – bass, mandolin, guitar, pedal steel

Matt Malley – bass, vocals, guitar

Ben Mize – drums, percussion, vocals

Dan Vickrey – guitar, sitar, vocals

Chris Seefried – backing vocalist

David Lowery - backing vocalist, producer

Dennis Herring – producer, keyboards, loops, mixing

Gary DeRosa – backing vocalist

Cinjun Tate – backing vocalist

Bob Ludwig – mastering

Matt Funes – viola

Eve Butler – violin

Joel Derouin – violin

Larry Corbett – cello

David Campbell – string arrangements, conductor, orchestration

Joe Chiccarelli – engineer

Jim Champagne – engineer

Clay Jones – guitar, mandolin

Ok Hee Kim – engineer

David McKean– art direction, illustrations

Bill Merryfield – art direction, creative director

Martin Pradler – engineer

Jack Joseph Puig – mixing

Richard Thomas Ash - engineer/second mix engineer

Rocky Schenck – photography

Jim Scott – mixing

Jeff Sheehan – engineer

Janette Sheridan – production coordination

This Desert Life is the 3rd studio album from Counting Crows. The cover art is by noted comic book artist Dave McKean, best known for his work with Neil Gaiman, and was adapted from the cover art McKean did for Gaiman's picture book The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish. The album had sold more than 2 million copies worldwide by February 2002.[8] The song "Hanginaround" was the first of three singles released from the album, and the highest charting single off the album, reaching number 1 on the US Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart and number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as top ten in Canada and top 50 in a number of other countries.