Duritz hinted in a 2006 interview that Counting Crows’ next studio

Duritz hinted in a 2006 interview that Counting Crows’ next studio record would be released in late 2007. He indicated that the band had spent three weeks working in a recording studio with Gil Norton , the producer behind Recovering the Satellites , and revealed the working title of the album to be Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings . Duritz explained that, “Saturday night is when you sin and Sunday is when you regret. Sinning is often done very loudly, angrily, bitterly, violently.” Vickrey stated that “the idea at the moment is to have kind of a rocking side and then an acoustic-y, maybe country-ish side. We got the first half done in May in New York, so half of it is pretty strong and done. And now we’re going to work on the second half, the country tunes, during the tour.”