MEDICAL WARNING! Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is more than an hour of pure listening pleasure. If you’re in ill health I suggest you have a doctor accompany you on your first listen. And for those who need that stiff caffeine jolt to get your hearts started in the morning, forget it,  Just turn on this CD. If your heart doesn’t start then, it never will. And what about those in perfect health? This CD is so good that you should allow at least twenty-four hours to recuperate after listening to it.

Even though this CD is not scheduled for release until March 25th, many people have heard a part or all of it, due to leakage. That won’t hurt sales much, if at all, when the 25th rolls around, coming from perennial favorites Counting Crows. They’re one of a select few groups who haven’t faltered after a strong jump out of the gate with their first album 14 (14??) years ago. They made a big splash then, and they’re still on a roll. Of course, success was signed and sealed, simply waiting for delivery by having T-Bone Burnett produce their first CD. If he’s ever produced anything but a megahit, I’m not aware of it. But even if he has produced a dud somewhere along the line, I daresay it wasn’t due to his Midas touch, but a fault with the group or the record company.

The idea of splitting media releases such as DVDs and CDs between more than one producer or director seems to be catching on just a little, as was done with this CD. The CD gets its name from the two halves of the CD done by two different producers. This CD splits into the Saturday night rock orgy and Sunday morning paying the piper, which are two of the four main food groups of just about any party person under the age of thirty today. What are the other two? Sex and drugs, of course.