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=== 2000s ===

==== 2002–2003: ''Hard Candy'' and greatest hits album ====
On July 9, 2002, the band released its fourth studio album, ''[[Hard Candy (Counting Crows album)|Hard Candy]]''. The album included a [[cover version|cover]] of [[Joni Mitchell]]'s song "[[Big Yellow Taxi#Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton version|Big Yellow Taxi]]". [[Vanessa Carlton]] contributed backing vocals to the [[single (music)|single edit]] of the track, which appeared on the [[Two Weeks Notice#Soundtrack|soundtrack]] for ''[[Two Weeks Notice]]'' and was re-released on future ''Hard Candy'' albums.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FC59803B975261D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |title=Search Results |website=Mercury News |access-date=September 12, 2011 |archive-date=October 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006000454/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FC59803B975261D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |url-status=dead}}</ref> The original version, without vocals by Carlton, appeared on the first album release as a hidden track. ''Hard Candy'' received better reviews than the previous efforts, with "radio friendly" songs, like "[[American Girls (Counting Crows song)|American Girls]]" (which featured [[Sheryl Crow]] on backing vocals), and contains a more upbeat feel and tempo. The band toured with the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] band, [[Bløf]]. A song, "Holiday in Spain", came together as a result of the camaraderie between the two groups: it is sung partly as a dual language duet, and partly as a musical "round", with both [[Lead vocalist|lead singer]]s singing in differing languages at the end of the song.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.blikopnieuws.nl/2008/blof-en-counting-crows-samen-op-concert-at-sea |title=BLOF en Counting Crows samen op concert at SEA |date=February 6, 2008 |website= Blik op nieuws}}</ref>

Midway through the Hard Candy tour, drummer Ben Mize (born February 2, 1971, [[Durham, County Durham|Durham]], [[North Carolina]]) amicably left the band to spend more time with his family and pursue his own musical interests. After Mize completed the American leg of the tour, he was replaced by Jim Bogios, formerly a drummer with [[Ben Folds]] and Sheryl Crow.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.voxonline.com/alternative/countingcrows/index.htm |title=Counting Crows are Riding High |publisher=Vox |date=December 11, 2002 |access-date=April 22, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922011857/http://www.voxonline.com/alternative/countingcrows/index.htm |archive-date=September 22, 2007 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Jim attributes leaving Sheryl Crow for Counting Crows to becoming a band member and having more creative input.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Flans, Robyn|title=Jim BOGIOS from Sheryl Crow to Counting Crows|magazine=Modern Drummer|date=March 2008|page=24|via=ProQuest}}</ref> Following the Hard Candy tour, longtime [[bassist]] Matt Malley left the band after growing weary of touring, and to attend to his duties as a new father.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.freemeditation.com/news/2009/10/14/matt-malley-awakens-the-goddess/ | title=Matt Malley awakens the Goddess | date=October 14, 2009 }}</ref> He was replaced by [[Millard Powers]].

Counting Crows released the greatest hits album ''[[Films About Ghosts (The Best Of...)|Films About Ghosts]]'' in November 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000329286 |title=Films About Ghosts: The Best Of... – Counting Crows |website= AllMusic}}</ref>

==== 2004–2006: Oscars and ''New Amsterdam'' ====
In 2004, the band's "[[Accidentally in Love (song)|Accidentally in Love]]" song appeared on the [[List of Shrek songs|soundtrack]] of the animated film ''[[Shrek 2]]''. At the [[77th Academy Awards]], the song was nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]], but lost to "[[Al otro lado del río]]" from ''[[The Motorcycle Diaries (film)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1628702/ |title=Counting Crows |publisher=IMDb |access-date=March 1, 2007}}<br>- {{cite magazine |last=Mar |first=Alex |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/countingcrows/articles/story/6862727/crows_nab_oscar_nom |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207062507/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/countingcrows/articles/story/6862727/crows_nab_oscar_nom |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 7, 2006 |title=Crows Nab Oscar Nom |magazine=Rolling Stone|date=January 25, 2005 |access-date=March 1, 2007}}<br>- {{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/arts/story.html?id=b07f6047-2282-4666-ac87-23c861628e42 |title=Counting Crows following a logical path in recordings |publisher=Canada.com |access-date=October 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909073922/http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/arts/story.html?id=b07f6047-2282-4666-ac87-23c861628e42 |archive-date=September 9, 2014 |url-status=dead}}<br>- {{Cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1496197/jamie-foxx-gets-two-oscar-nods-aviator-leads-pack/ |title=Jamie Foxx Gets Two Oscar Nods, 'Aviator' Leads Pack |first=Gil |last=Kaufman |website= MTV News}}</ref>

[[File:MillardPowers082106CountingCrows.jpg|thumb|upright|Bassist Millard Powers]]
In June 2006, the band released ''[[New Amsterdam (album)|New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall]]'' album.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/new-amsterdam-live-at-heineken-music-hall-february-6-2003-mw0000544967 |title=New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall February 6, 2003 – Counting Crows – Songs, Reviews, Credits |website= AllMusic}}</ref>

==== 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>

==== Departure from Geffen ====
On March 22, 2009, Duritz announced on the band's website that they would be leaving [[Geffen Records]], with whom they had worked for 18 years. He ended the post with a free download of the band's cover of [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]'s "Borderline", recorded live at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in 2003.<ref>{{cite magazine | last=Kreps | first=Daniel | title=Counting Crows Part Ways With Geffen Records After 18 Years | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=2009-03-17 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/counting-crows-part-ways-with-geffen-records-after-18-years-67315/ | access-date=2024-11-25}}</ref>

Following the departure from Geffen, the band has continued to tour. During the summer of 2009, they launched the ambitious ''Saturday Night Rebel Rockers Traveling Circus and Medicine Show'' tour with longtime Bay Area friend [[Michael Franti]], his band Spearhead, and the band [[Augustana (band)|Augustana]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GePhMznKCUc| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618231214/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GePhMznKCUc| archive-date=2012-06-18 |url-status=dead |title=Traveling Circus and Medicine Show 2009 Summer Tour Promo |publisher=YouTube |date=July 13, 2009 |access-date=October 30, 2011}}</ref> Instead of the traditional concert format of a short set by an opening act, followed by a longer set from a main supporting act, and then a long set by the headlining band, the shows featured members of all of the bands joining each other for songs from each bands' catalogs at various points throughout the evening.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jambands.com/features/2009/08/26/august-and-everything-after-adam-duritz-on-his-summer-with-the-traveling-circus-and-medicine-show/|title=August and Everything After: Adam Duritz on His Summer with The Traveling Circus and Medicine Show|date=August 26, 2009|website=Jambands.com|access-date=April 26, 2023}}</ref> As Duritz explained in a welcoming message on the official website for the tour, each show "is going to start with EVERYONE onstage together and we're going to all be running on & off stage all night playing one each other's songs all together and basically just playing whenever we feel like playing."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.travelingcircusshow.com |title=Traveling Circus and Medicine Show – Counting Crows, Michael Franti and Spearhead, and Augustana Official Tour Page |publisher=Travelingcircusshow.com |access-date=March 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425123113/http://www.travelingcircusshow.com/ |archive-date=April 25, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref>