Counting Crows' Adam Duritz on Taylor Swift, Bob Saget and trying to hit that high note in 'Mr. Jones'
LOS ANGELES — In September 1993, Adam Duritz and his Bay Area folk-rock band, Counting Crows, released their debut album, "August and Everything After," which went on to sell 7 million copies, spawned an inescapable radio smash in "Mr. Jones" and turned the dreadlocked Duritz into one of Hollywood's most enthusiastic daters of actresses (including, as the story goes, two "Friends" cast members in Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox).
Three decades later, Duritz is still attracting famous and beautiful women.
On a recent evening, Counting Crows played to a full house at the Troubadour as a means of drumming up excitement for a North American tour that circled back to Inglewood's YouTube Theater for a show on Wednesday. Among those gathered to hear "Mr. Jones," "A Long December," "Round Here" and the rest was Cindy Crawford, whom the next morning Duritz insisted he doesn't actually know.
"A million people came backstage and said, 'Cindy Crawford's at your show!'" the singer, 59, recalled with a laugh in an interview at his West Hollywood hotel. "I was like, 'Huh, cool.'"
For the current tour, Counting Crows — with a lineup of original members, longtime players and newer recruits — are joined by the veteran emo act Dashboard Confessional, whose Chris Carrabba has become a close friend of Duritz's in
