Editing Counting Crows (section)

==== 2007–2008: ''Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings'' ====
Duritz hinted in a 2006 interview<ref name=Billboard>{{cite magazine |last=Benson |first=John |url=http://www.countingcrows.com/news/interview.php?uid=2270 |title=New Counting Crows: One Part Rock, One Part Country |magazine=Billboard |date=June 20, 2006 |access-date=March 2, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928030417/http://www.countingcrows.com/news/interview.php?uid=2270 |archive-date=September 28, 2007}}</ref> that Counting Crows' next studio record would be released in late 2007. He indicated that the band had spent three weeks working in a recording studio with [[Gil Norton]], the producer behind ''Recovering the Satellites'', and revealed the working title of the album to be ''[[Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings]]''. Duritz explained that, "Saturday night is when you sin and Sunday is when you regret. Sinning is often done very loudly, angrily, bitterly, violently."<ref>{{cite news |last=Weiner |first=Ben |url=http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/entertainment/music/article_1200553.php |title=Counting Crows: Rearranged, revealing, riveting |work=Orange County Register |date=July 2, 2006 |access-date=March 2, 2007 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930153822/http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/entertainment/music/article_1200553.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> Vickrey stated that "the idea at the moment is to have kind of a rocking side and then an acoustic-y, maybe country-ish side. We got the first half done in May in New York, so half of it is pretty strong and done. And now we're going to work on the second half, the country tunes, during the tour."<ref name=Billboard/>

Amidst touring in the summer of 2007, the band performed live before the [[Home Run Derby]] at the [[2007 MLB All-Star Game]] on July 9, 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/bs-mtblog-2007-07-logging_the_hr_derby-story.html |title=Logging the HR Derby|first=Sheil |last=Kapadia|date=July 9, 2007 |website= Baltimore Sun}}</ref> On July 22 they previewed two new songs at Daniel S. Frawley Stadium in [[Wilmington, Delaware]], a new ballad titled "Washington Square" and a hard rocking track called "Cowboys". On August 8, 2007, VH1 filmed a live performance of "Mr. Jones", clips of which were shown on the miniseries ''100 Greatest Songs of the 90s''. The song ranked No.&nbsp;27 on the list.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/47954837.html?dids=47954837:47954837&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+14%2C+2000&author=Edna+Gundersen&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=VH1+picks+100+greatest+songs+Let+the+5-part+countdown%2C+bickering+begin&pqatl=google |title=VH1 picks 100 greatest songs Let the 5-part countdown, bickering begin |website=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |access-date=October 5, 2014 |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107231858/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/47954837.html?dids=47954837:47954837&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+14,+2000&author=Edna+Gundersen&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=VH1+picks+100+greatest+songs+Let+the+5-part+countdown,+bickering+begin&pqatl=google |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In September 2007, Counting Crows played a unique show at Town Hall in New York City, during which it performed all the tracks from ''August and Everything After'' in album order. The show was recorded for a planned DVD release, and also featured several songs from the new album. On September 27, Duritz announced on his blog that the band had asked its record label to postpone the album's release until early 2008, citing the time pressures involved in preparing both the new album and an ''August and Everything After'' deluxe edition for release.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://adam.countingcrows.com/journal.php?uid=2435 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031000412/http://adam.countingcrows.com/journal.php?uid=2435 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 31, 2007 |title=CountingCrows.com news.journal |date=October 31, 2007}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=December 2019}}

On January 16, 2008, the band released a digital single on its official website as a free download. It featured "[[1492 (Counting Crows song)|1492]]" from the "Saturday Nights" half of the new album, and "When I Dream Of Michelangelo" from the "Sunday Mornings" half as its B-side.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=93761 |title=Recounting Crows: Adam Duritz's dark secret |publisher=Readingeagle.com |access-date=October 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006100818/http://www2.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=93761 |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The album was released on March 25, 2008.<ref name="amazon-saturday-sunday">{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000WMGDD4 |title=Saturday Nights And Sunday Mornings |website= Amazon.ca |access-date=May 9, 2009}}</ref>