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Length
  
25:20

Artist
  
Counting Crows

Label
  
Geffen Records

Language
  
English

Release date
  
27 November 2008

Genre
  
Alternative rock

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Released
  
November 27, 2008 (2008-11-27)

Recorded
  
1993–2007, various locations in California

Aural 6 (2008)
  
August and Everything After Live at Town Hall (2011)

Producers
  
T Bone Burnett, Brian Deck, Dennis Herring, Steve Lillywhite, David Lowery, Gil Norton

Similar
  
New Amsterdam: Live at H, Across a Wire: Live in New Y, Saturday Nights & Sunday, Films About Ghosts, August and Everything After: Live

Aural 6 is an EP by Counting Crows released on November 27, 2008. The Best Buy-exclusive compilation sampler contains tracks from several of their previous albums. This was one of a series of six-song EPs released at Best Buy for $5.99 for Black Friday, 2008.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Mr. Jones" (David Bryson and Adam Duritz) – 4:33 (Originally from August and Everything After)
  2. "A Long December" (Duritz) – 4:57 (Originally from Recovering the Satellites)
  3. "Colorblind" (Charles Gillingham and Duritz) – 3:23 (Originally from This Desert Life)
  4. "Hard Candy" (Gillingham, Duritz, and Dan Vickrey) – 4:20 (Originally from Hard Candy)
  5. "Hanging Tree" (Duritz and Vickrey) – 3:50 (Originally from Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings)
  6. "Washington Square" – 4:17 (Originally from Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings)

Although the photo montage on the cover displays Across a Wire: Live in New York City, no tracks from that album appear on this compilation.

Personnel

Counting Crows
  • Jim Bogios – drums and percussion on "Hanging Tree" and "Washington Square"
  • David Bryson – guitar
  • Adam Duritz – vocals, piano on "A Long December"
  • Charles Gillingham – piano, Hammond B-3 organ, Mellotron, synthesizer, vocals
  • David Immerglück – guitar
  • Matt Malley – bass guitar on "A Long December", "Hard Candy", and "Mr. Jones"
  • Ben Mize – drums on "Hard Candy"
  • Millard Powers – bass guitar on "Hanging Tree" and upright double bass on "Washington Square"
  • Dan Vickrey – guitars
    • Additional musicians
  • Denny Fongheiser – drums and percussion on "Mr. Jones"
  • David Gibbs – backing vocals on "Hard Candy"
  • Matthew Sweet – backing vocals on "Hard Candy"
    • Production
  • "Colorblind" – Dennis Herring and David Lowery
  • "Hanging Tree" – Gil Norton
  • "Hard Candy" – Steve Lillywhite
  • "A Long December" – Gil Norton
  • "Mr. Jones" – T-Bone Burnett
  • "Washington Square" – Brian Deck

    • Songs

    1Mr Jones4:32
    2A Long December4:58
    3Colorblind3:24

    References

    Aural 6 Wikipedia
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