On April 10, 2012, “Cooking Vinyl” label released “Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)”, the sixth Counting Crows studio album. It was recorded April-June 2011, and was produced by Shawn Dealey, Jim Bogios, Dave Bryson, Adam Duritz, Charlie Gillingham, David Immergluck, Millard Powers and Dan Vickrey.
Personnel:
- Adam Duritz – lead and backing vocals
- Dave Bryson – acoustic and twelve-string electric guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, banjo
- David Immergluck – mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, twelve-string electric guitar; glockenspielon, pedal steel, baritone electric guitar, backing vocals
- Dan Vickrey – acoustic and electric guitar, banjo; acoustic twelve-string guitar, backing vocals
- Charlie Gillingham – piano, Hammond B-3, accordion, string composition, pizzicato strings, doorbell, backing vocals
- Millard Powers – bass guitar, upright double bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
- Jim Bogios – drums, percussion; tambourine, backing vocals
- Leanne Zacharias – cello
- Dave Bryson – additional engineering, mixing
- Shawn Dealey – recording
- Brian Deck– mixing
- Richard Dodd – mastering
- Brian Dong – recording assistant
- Robert Hawes – recording assistant
- Jorge Velasco – recording assistant
- Josh Rhinehart – package design
- Ivan Sciberras – cover concept, design
Track listing:
- Untitled (Love Song) – Luke MacMaster
- Start Again – Norman Blake
- Hospital – Coby Brown
- Mercy – Kurt Stevenson, Patrick Winningham, Chris Boesel
- Meet on the Ledge – Richard Thompson
- Like Teenage Gravity – Kasey Anderson
- Amie – Craig Fuller
- Coming Around – Fran Healy
- Ooh La La – Ronnie Lane, Ron Wood
- All My Failures -Taylor Goldsmith
- Return of the Grievous Angel – Gram Parsons, Thomas Stanley Brown
- Four White Stallions – Patrick Winningham, Jeff Trott, Dan Vickrey
- Jumping Jesus – Tom Barnes, Jim Gordon
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – Bob Dylan
- The Ballad of El Goodo – Alex Chilton, Chris Bell