In case you guys didn't know, Richard Manuel was in The Band, a great country/folk rock (forgive me, I don't exactly know how to classify them). Adam, and I'm sure other members of Counting Crows are big fans of The Band. Adam wrote this song about one day when he woke up and read the paper and saw that Richard Manuel was dead. After that, in my opinion, he proceeded to do what my girlfriend calls "thinking too much". heh. And out came this song. Like I said, it conceivably could be a riff from The Band.
In case you guys didn't know, Richard Manuel was in The Band, a great country/folk rock (forgive me, I don't exactly know how to classify them). Adam, and I'm sure other members of Counting Crows are big fans of The Band. Adam wrote this song about one day when he woke up and read the paper and saw that Richard Manuel was dead. After that, in my opinion, he proceeded to do what my girlfriend calls "thinking too much". heh. And out came this song. Like I said, it conceivably could be a riff from The Band.