Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)

Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)
A painting of a man in a three-piece suit lying down on a dock, bending toward the water with an illuminated light bulb for a head
Studio album by
Counting Crows
ReleasedApril 10, 2012 (2012-04-10)
RecordedApril and June 2011[1]
Genre
Length61:26
Label
Producer
  • Counting Crows
  • Shawn Dealey
Counting Crows chronology
August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall
(2011) 		Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)
(2012) 		Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow
(2013)

Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation) is the sixth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on April 10, 2012, on Cooking Vinyl. The album is composed of cover songs, with vocalist Adam Duritz stating, "Sometimes it's great to play someone else's music and try to make it your own. Sometimes it's great just because it's fun."[2]

Produced by both the band and Shawn Dealy, the album includes compositions from the 1960s through to the 2010s, and features songs written by the band's early contemporaries Tender Mercies and Sordid Humor, both of which included members of Counting Crows before the formation of the band.

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