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...Duritz's vocals are more anguished and torn than ever; he's as emotionally naked as a daytime talk-show guest, baring his soul and searching for empathy. You hear his need. In fact, it comes as something of a surprise to find that in person, the 31-year-old Duritz is sturdier looking than he sounds. North of 6 ft. and bearish in his build, he unexpectedly fills the door frame when welcoming a visitor. But when he sits down and starts to talk, in a rare interview, the vulnerability quivers in the air. "If you're a person...
Shortly after Counting Crows' first tour in 1994, Duritz decided to move to Los Angeles from Berkeley, California, where he had been an English major at the University of California before dropping out. Convinced that his music was in some way causing people to hate him, he stopped composing and tried to avoid the spotlight. He had planned to lay low in L.A. but, instead, ended up doing the one thing in this celebrity-crazed country that, short of a lengthy trial for the brutal slaying of an ex-wife and her companion, would most guarantee that the media glare...
...case of life imitating art--or at least imitating television--the way in which Duritz and Aniston met and eventually broke up was like something out of an episode from her show. Says Duritz: "We were set up by our friends. She's a really nice person, but I think our thing had more to do with infatuation. Both of our friends that set us up told us how much each of us wanted to meet the other. They lied. But it got both of us thinking how great it is that this person likes me. And then we hung...
...Duritz's difficulties with women provide the raw material for his songwriting. Bad dates, long-distance affairs, the desperate wait for the phone to ring, all resonate in his lyrics. Almost all the songs on Recovering the Satellites are written in the first person, and the first half of the album dwells on Duritz's struggles with the media spotlight. Goodnight Elisabeth is a melancholy ballad about a woman (not Aniston) Duritz dated who had trouble dealing with his constant touring. Have You Seen Me Lately? is a forceful rocker that examines Duritz's uneasy romance with fame...
...produce chart-topping singles, Counting Crows has a different approach. As with its last album, the band doesn't plan to release any songs from Recovering the Satellites as commercial singles in the U.S., although it will do so in the less frenzied European market. The embargo here is Duritz's way of keeping the radio play of his songs to a minimum; he feels Macarena-style overexposure of songs "ruins" bands and that the focus should be on the album as a whole. Moreover, it avoids tempting the fates or risking a backlash by appearing too successful. "I want...