Songs from Suicide Bridge is an album by Eric Caboor and David Kauffman, self-released on their private label Donkey Soul Music in 1984.

The latter lived in an apartment on North Sycamore Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, working a day job as a waiter at the nearby Hamburger Hamlet across the street from Mann's Chinese Theatre.

Caboor, meanwhile, lived at his childhood home in Burbank, where his father had built a tool shed in the backyard that also served as rehearsal space and a makeshift recording studio for Eric.

[1] The album is marked by pervasively depressive lyrics, slow tempo, spare instrumentation, and lo-fi production, with songs penned by both Caboor and Kauffman.

[1] Although they felt defeated by the show and performed live much less often as a result, they were still confident in their abilities as a studio act and wanted to preserve their songwriting in LP form.

He had his friend Albert Dobrovitz shoot a number of black-and-white photos of the duo standing on the Colorado Street Bridge, one of which adorns the front cover.

Although no local radio stations expressed any interest in Songs from Suicide Bridge, the duo did find some airplay in Nova Scotia and Alaska, which Kauffman found appropriate given their desolate and cold environments.

[7] Caboor and Kauffman would continue to perform in LA nevertheless, rebranding as the Drovers in the late 1980s and releasing two more albums through Donkey Soul—Beyond the Blue (1989) and Tightrope Town (1992).

[5] In March 2015, Light in the Attic Records announced that they were reissuing a remastered version of Songs from Suicide Bridge sourced from the master tapes, celebrating its 30th anniversary.

[11] The Arts Desk's Kieron Tyler wrote: "[B]arely released in 1984, [it's] as good as James Taylor at his most naked, and as evocative as Elliott Smith.

She singled out the opening track "Kiss Another Day Goodbye" as capturing "precisely the moment when the California dream turns, and the land looks lonely and parched".