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 Milk Carton Kids, The Prologue 10yr Anniversary Box Set Folk | Milk Carton Kids Records | 3LP, Box Set Released 24th September 2021 £43.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Milk Carton Kids, The Prologue 10yr Anniversary Box Set £43.00 Genre: Folk Label: Milk Carton Kids Records SKU: MCKR00004 Formats: 3LP, Box Set Released Date: 24th September 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Danielle Lewis Dreaming In Slow Motion Folk | Red Robin | 180g, 1LP Released 19th November 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Danielle Lewis Dreaming In Slow Motion £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Red Robin SKU: RRR014LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 19th November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cornshed Sisters, The Tell Tales Folk | Memphis Industries | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th April 2012 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cornshed Sisters, The Tell Tales £14.00 Genre: Folk Label: Memphis Industries SKU: MI0214LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th April 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View King Creosote Astronaut Meets Appleman Folk | Domino | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 30th August 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders King Creosote Astronaut Meets Appleman £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP385 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 30th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dervish The Great Irish Songbook Folk | Rounder | 1LP Released 12th April 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dervish The Great Irish Songbook £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rounder SKU: 7208896 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lou Rhodes theyesandeye Folk | nude | 1LP Released 22nd July 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lou Rhodes theyesandeye £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: nude SKU: NUDE23LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Little Arrow Music Masks & Poems – 10th Anniversary Folk | Bubblewrap Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 21st May 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Little Arrow Music Masks & Poems – 10th Anniversary £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Bubblewrap Records SKU: BWR056 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 21st May 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Matt Deighton Doubtless Dauntless Folk | Monks Road | 1LP Released 30th November 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt Deighton Doubtless Dauntless £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Monks Road SKU: MONKSROAD131 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists A Hard Days Night Treatment (With Bonus USB) Folk | ECC100 | 1LP Released 4th March 2016 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists A Hard Days Night Treatment (With Bonus USB) £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: ECC100 SKU: ECC100007 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th March 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Secret Sisters, The You Don’t Own Me Anymore Folk | New West | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th November 2023 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Secret Sisters, The You Don’t Own Me Anymore £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: New West SKU: LPNW5786C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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