“Round Here” by Counting Crows

"Round Here" comes from Counting Crows' 1993 debut, August and Everything After, and the song is older than the band. Adam Duritz first worked it up with the Himalayans, the group he sang with before co-founding Counting Crows, which is why the music credit is shared: David Bryson alongside Dave Janusko, Dan Jewett and Chris Roldan, with Duritz writing the words. Geffen put it out as the follow-up to "Mr. Jones" on May 23, 1994.

It's a slow, circling song that gathers like weather, Duritz's voice cracking and wandering as if he's thinking out loud. T-Bone Burnett produced, and he filled the room with texture: Charlie Gillingham on piano, Hammond, chamberlin and accordion, David Immerglück adding pedal steel and mandolin, Bill Dillon on guitorgan, and Gary Louris, Mark Olson and Maria McKee singing backup, with Steve Bowman's drums and Matt Malley's bass keeping it all moving.

The Hot 100 rules of the day kept it off that chart, but it reached number seven on Modern Rock Tracks and number six in Canada, and in 2022 American Songwriter placed it fifth among the band's ten best songs.

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