Songs From The Suicide Bridge David Kauffman and Eric Caboor SKU: MCR913LP Barcode: 826853091312 26.00 £26.00 Genre: Folk Label: Modern Classics / Light In The Attic Released Date: 11th May 2015 Buying Format: 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info You’ll find a Suicide Bridge in almost any big city you care to visit, but few are more impressive than the Colorado Street Bridge connecting Pasadena to Los Angeles, which earned its nickname by being the scene of suicides in triple figures. It’s also the scene of a photo shoot in which singer-songwriters Eric Caboor and David Kauffman posed on the deserted structure, capturing an image that would eventually inform the spare, detached mood–and title–of their majestic debut album, 1984’s Songs From Suicide Bridge. Indeed, there’s a fatalistic quality to this LP that has much to do with its origins. Kauffman, from Madison, New Jersey, and Caboor, from Burbank, California, met in 1982 playing the coffee houses of Los Angeles. Each was painfully used to playing to half-empty venues, which is a situation only half of the partnership would have been at peace with. “Dave had come to California to have a career in music,” Caboor says. “I don’t think it was quite the same for me. I was always kind of reluctant to go all out.” Every week, the pair met in a converted utility shed in the backyard of Caboor’s childhood home in Burbank to play each other the songs they wrote. They were never a duo in the conventional sense–rather, as Kauffman puts it, “two loners who happened to join forces.” After two frustrating years of trying and failing to catch a break in a music industry that was focused on new wave, pop, AOR–anything but the folk-rock the duo were offering–the pair conceded defeat. One of them suggested, half joking, that they should put all their darkest and least viable works together on one record, if only to spite the industry that had rejected them. The more they thought about it, the better an idea it seemed, and when they started to plot out a tracklist from their vast catalog of songs, something unique and special begun taking shape. The opening track, “Kiss Another Day Goodbye,” in particular, set out the stall: “I don’t know how much longer/ I can feel the way I feel/ And never cry/ I don’t know how much longer/ I can kiss another day goodbye,” it says. Home-recorded on a four-track, Songs From Suicide Bridge was released on the pair’s own Donkey Soul Music in 1984. If this were a movie, the album would have been a huge success. Instead, the 500 copies pressed found their way to few willing ears. Though real life encroached, Caboor and Kaufmann continued to work together, releasing albums as The Drovers in 1989 and 1992. Now, their debut is to be released by Light In The Attic Records with brand new liner notes by Sam Sweet. Hopefully, it will finally find its audience–a listener who can see hope in the darkness. “People would tell us those songs were depressing,” Caboor says in his interview with Sweet, “but it wasn’t depressing to us. In a lot of cases, playing those songs in that little room was one of the only things that made us feel better.” * First ever vinyl reissue * 30th anniversary edition expanded to a double LP housed in a deluxe Stoughton gatefold “tip-on” jacket * 24bit / 96kHz remaster from the original tapes * Essay by Sam Sweet interviewing both David and Eric, including unseen archive photos * Includes download card for full album 9/10 IN UNCUT: “PRIVATE-PRESS , LOSER-FOLK CLASSIC EXHUMED..IT’S AN EXTRAORDINARY RECORD…” 4/5 IN RECORD COLLECTOR: “FAST FORWARD 30 YEARS TO AN AGE WHERE INTROSPECTIVE FOLK IS THE ORDER OF THE INDIE DAY AND THE LP SOUNDS REMARKABLY CONTEMPORARY. THERE’S A NECESSARILY PRIMITIVE PRODUCTION THROUGHOUT THAT LENDS A WELCOME LO-FI AMBIENCE TO THE CLUTCH OF SPARSE , EERILY BEAUTIFUL VIGNETTES OF URBAN LONELINESS.” Artist David Kauffman and Eric Caboor Genre Folk Label Modern Classics / Light In The Attic Buying Options 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 2LP , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1 Kiss Another Day Goodbye 2 Neighborhood Blues 3 Life Without Love 4 Angel Of Mercy 5 Life And Times On The Beach 6 Backwoods 7 Midnight Willie 8 Where's The Understanding? 9 Tinsel Town 10 One More Day (You'll Fly Again) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk View Product Quick View Arlo Guthrie Alice’s Restaurant: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (50th Anniversary Edition) Folk | Omnivore | 2LP Released 23rd August 2019 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Arlo Guthrie Alice’s Restaurant: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (50th Anniversary Edition) £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: Omnivore SKU: 0816651017393 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 23rd August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bert Jansch Living In The Shadows Part 2: On The Edge Of A Dream Folk | Earth Records | 4LP, Box Set Released 28th April 2017 £51.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch Living In The Shadows Part 2: On The Edge Of A Dream £51.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Records SKU: EARTHLP015 Formats: 4LP, Box Set Released Date: 28th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stornoway Bonxie Folk | Cooking Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 28th May 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stornoway Bonxie £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP618 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 28th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lisa O'Neill All Of This Is Chance Folk | Rough Trade | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th February 2023 £21.00 - £22.00 Select options Lisa O'Neill All Of This Is Chance £21.00 - £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rough Trade Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 10th February 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Adrian Crowley & James Yorkston My Yoke Is Heavy: The Songs Of Daniel Johnston Blues | Chemikal Underground | 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released 6th December 2013 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adrian Crowley & James Yorkston My Yoke Is Heavy: The Songs Of Daniel Johnston £16.00 Genre: Blues Label: Chemikal Underground SKU: CHEM203 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 6th December 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Richard Osborn Endless Folk | Tomkins Square | 1LP Released 27th January 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Richard Osborn Endless £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Tomkins Square SKU: TSQ5340 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Spencer Cullum Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection Folk | Full Time Hobby | 1LP Released 8th October 2021 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Spencer Cullum Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Full Time Hobby SKU: FTH420LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View John James and Pete Berryman Sky In My Pie Folk | Transatlantic | 1LP Released 24th March 2022 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations John James and Pete Berryman Sky In My Pie £8.00 Genre: Folk Label: Transatlantic SKU: nn239398 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th March 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker Seedlings All (Indies Only) Folk | Rough Trade | 1LP, Includes CD, Includes Download Code Released 21st March 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker Seedlings All (Indies Only) £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rough Trade SKU: RTRADLPX898 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD, Includes Download Code Released Date: 21st March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jake Xerxes Fussell When I’m Called Folk | Fat Possum | 1LP Released 12th July 2024 £20.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Jake Xerxes Fussell When I’m Called £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fat Possum SKU: FP18391 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th July 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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