Counting Crows: Hard Candy

"MR: I remember seeing you play 'Big Yellow Taxi' at one of your concerts. … AD: The one that came out on the radio wasn't the one we actually recorded. We were in London doing Hard Candy, and we did fourteen songs in one weekend ... all these covers we wanted to play. I had this idea for sort of this hip-hop, acoustic version with drums, upright bass, a couple acoustic guitars and me. It's just like four or five of us in the band doing 'Big Yellow Taxi.' Everybody loved it so much that they wanted to remix it. Pharrell took a shot at it that didn't quite work, and then Ron Fair ended up doing a version that I thought was pretty cool. I like the idea of people taking our music and doing totally different things. So, we took and put it as a hidden track on the record, and that ended up getting all over the radio. … It ended up being a big hit, but that's not the version we did" (Mike Ragogna: "Augustana & Beyond: A Conversation with Counting Crows' Adam Duritz," Huffington Post, 8/4/10).
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