Crow Talk : The Definitive Guide to Counting Crows (Paperback)

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"...in-depth, intimate, admirable look into the widely adored world of Counting Crows. A 'must have' for any fan." -- Lisa Lebarre, AnnaBegins.com

Product Description

They hit the music world by storm in 1993 with their rocking hit "Mr. Jones" from their debut album August and Everything After. They were named “Best New Artist” by MTV and were the talk of the music industry. They have followed up with two other exciting and successful releases, Recovering the Satellites and This Desert Life and the hit singles “A Long December” and “Hanginaround.”

With all this success over the past seven years, Crow Talk: The Definitive Guide to Counting Crows, published by Rocket Ride Press, is surprisingly the first book ever written about the band. It’s an in-depth, fun, fact-filled book telling it like it is with straight-to-the-point answers about everything you’d ever want to know about Counting Crows. To top it off, the book includes seventeen gorgeous exclusive live photographs of the band.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Rocket Ride Press (January 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970016204
• ISBN-13: 978-0970016201
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #879,823 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't Count on it, February 9, 2001

By	"sonofdecember" (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews

While the book is an interesting potpouri of miscellani, it lacks insight, cohesion, or interest. And while I see and respect Jessica's love for the Crows, her writing style is very amateur. The book offers little true insight and instead reads more like a statistical yearbook, except that it only shows those statistics most favorable to the Crows. Jessica's occasional semi-poetic personal musings are rather annoying when they are used to fill a page in this sparse book (which, by the way, can hardly be called a biography). If you buy this book, you will probably pick up a couple pieces of trivia about the Crows that you didn't know before. But that's all you'll get. Worth $14? That's for you to decide, but I'd pass.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good For The Newbie, So So for the older fan, March 17, 2001

By	ryad "If you want peace, prepare for war." (Oak Harbor, WA USA) - See all my reviews

Don't let my title give you the wrong impression, I will use this book as a reference and now I feel like I know the other memebers of the band a little better because honestly I couldn't tell who was who for a while though I knew all their names. The title is misleading, I wouldn't call it "The Definitive Guide" I mean it's only 100 pages of imformation, and aside from giving me some ideas of boots to look out for it didn't leave with a feeling of "I've learned something" that I've gotten from other books of a similiar nature about different artists. I also understand it's not like the author was able to sit down and talk to everyone involved in depth and personal like, but aside from that it's a good little reference guide. I think it's a bit pricey though considering what you get.

5.0 out of 5 stars The only thing as good as the Crows is this biograpy!!, October 26, 2000

By	Billy Pauley (USA) - See all my reviews

This is an excellent book! It really goes in depth with the life of the members of the Counting Crows. Any fan should own this wonderful biography of this great band. It displays the traumas and the fun times off their career. I am one of the Counting Crows biggest fans, and when I read this book I still learned many things that I had previously did not know...it was acctually suprising to read this amazing book...I hope that this author will extend her writing career, because she is a very great author and she goes into great detail of what you really want to know. I strongly reccommend this book!!