Claude says:Adam Duritz and David Bryson started Counting Crows as an acoustic duo in San Francisco in 1991, but the band gained widespread popularity two years later when "Mr. Jones" turned their debut into a seven-million seller. This 2012 live recording strips August & Everything After back to that early intimacy — Town Hall, minimal crowd noise, the songs recast as conversation pieces rather than stadium anthems. You picked it up the year it came out and spent three months with "Sullivan Street" and "Anna Begins," working through the whole set before putting it aside by winter's end.