Editing Counting Crows (section)

==== 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>