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David Kauffman and Eric Caboor

Songs From Suicide Bridge
CD $14
2LP Black $22
Digital Download $9.99
  • First ever vinyl reissue
  • First time available anywhere on CD/Digital outside of South Korea
  • 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

Description


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.

David Kauffman, from Madison, New Jersey, and Eric 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...

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Artist Bio

David Kauffman and Eric Caboor met in 1982 playing the coffee houses of Los Angeles. 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 the Madison, NJ-native Kauffman put it, “two loners who happened to join forces.” In 1984, the singer-songwriters released their home-recorded debut album, Songs From Suicide Bridge, on their own Donkey Soul Music.

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...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Kiss Another Day Goodbye
    4:53
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  • 2 Neighborhood Blues
    4:01
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  • 3 Life Without Love
    5:16
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  • 4 Angel of Mercy
    5:03
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  • 5 Life and Times on the Beach
    8:02
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  • 6 Backwoods
    8:14
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  • 7 Midnight Willie
    6:54
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  • 8 Where's the Understanding?
    2:09
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  • 9 Tinsel Town
    5:51
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  • 10 One More Day (You'll Fly Again)
    4:34
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