Leaving Songs

For the Stuart A. Staples album, see Leaving Songs (album).

Leaving Songs was released by Kristofer Åström together with Hidden Truck in 2001 on Startracks.

Track listing

1. "What I Came Here For" – 3:24
2. "Leaving Song" – 3:13
3. "Who" – 2:55
4. "The Drive" – 3:57
5. "Without Your Love" – 3:37
6. "Go, Went, Gone" – 3:28
7. "Mr Bojangles" – 5:22
8. "You Think You Don't Know Me" – 2:03
9. "This Surely Ain't My Home" – 4:07
10. "Oh, Lord" – 2:30
11. "Satan" – 4:18
12. "Where Were You?" – 4:17

Information

Musicians: Jari Haapalainen, Peter Hermansson, John Jern, Per Nordmark & Kristofer Åström

Produced by Kristofer Åström & Hidden Truck

Engineered by Fredrik Holmstedt and Jari Haapalainen

Mastered at Polar by Henrik Jonsson

All songs by Kristofer Åström, except Mr Bojangles by Jerry Jeff Walker

This is how the story goes...

(Quoted from the sleeve of the album)

One night Jari and I bought a case of beer and recorded seventeen songs on a four-track recorder at his house. As you can imagine not all of the songs were usable but a few actually turned out pretty good. Four of them ended up on this album. Perhaps one of these days you'll hear more from that session.... The rest of the album was recorded at "Studio KMH" in Stockholm on the last day of march and the first day of April 2001. The result from those two days is something we like to call "The KMH Session" which actually was meant to become an EP but we ended up recording so many tracks that we decided to make an entire album instead. Most of the "session" was recorded live at KMH with very few overdubs to bring out the spontaneous feeling rarely felt in studio recordings. We made this music just because we wanted to have fun. Well, we had a lot of fun and hopefully you'll like what you hear. And if you don't. Well, that's just too bad, ain't it?