Counting Crows → Bruce Springsteen → Joni Mitchell

Counting Crows cut their own take on "Atlantic City." Who wrote the song and recorded it first, long before Adam Duritz got his hands on it?Bruce Springsteenknewkept

Bruce Springsteen

Atlantic City · 1982 · via Counting Crows

Springsteen wrote it and put it on tape first in 1982, and it's the kind of song that keeps getting passed down the counter, from John Anderson to Ed Sheeran. Hear where Duritz learned it, then hear what he did with it.

Counting Crows put "Big Yellow Taxi" in front of a whole new crowd. Whose song was it before Adam Duritz ever sang a word of it?Joni Mitchellknew

Joni Mitchell

Big Yellow Taxi · 1970 · via Counting Crows

That taxi was Joni Mitchell's long before it was Counting Crows', and she cut it first in 1970. Start with her version, then dig for the one Bob Dylan recorded a few years later.