![]() ![]() MP3: Adam Duritz – Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright (Bob Dylan cover) – Take #1 MP3: Adam Duritz – On the Sunny Side of the Street (Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields cover) Note 2/14: Added “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” (two takes) and “On the Sunny Side of the Street” Note 2/13: Added “The Dark End of the Street” Follow on Twitter to see when new Duritz covers go up. Note: we’ll be adding the others songs this weekend. ![]() On the Cars’ “You Might Think,” he notes that “the only sure road to true love is to find your inner Ric Ocasek.” He throws a little music history in his bitching for “Rainbow Sleeves,” writing “Waits wrote it for Rickie Lee Jones & Bette Midler but HE never recorded it so I had to transpose it, which sucked.” He even preemptively responds to criticism that “Oh My Sweet Carolina” is a pretty depressing song for V-Day, writing “for many, Valentine’s Day can be about riding your life down til all u got’s a handful of nothing.” Four down, three to go!Įach piano performance comes with an endearingly informal note from Duritz about why he chose the song. So far he’s tackled, in order, Steve Earle, Ryan Adams, Tom Waits, and the Cars. ![]() He’s four days in and we’ve got ‘em for you below. For the week leading up to Valentine’s Day, he would cover one love song a day. This past Tuesday Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz announced a new project on the band’s Facebook page. ![]()
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