Leaving Songs (Kristofer Åström album)

Leaving Songs
Studio album by Kristofer Åström
Released	2001
Length	43:11
Label	Startracks
Kristofer Åström chronology
Go, Went, Gone (1998) Leaving Songs (2001) Northern Blues (2001)

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

Track listing

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

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 and Kristofer Åström
• Produced by Kristofer Åström and Hidden Truck
• Engineered by Fredrik Holmstedt and Jari Haapalainen
• Mastered at Polar by Henrik Jonsson

This is how the story goes...

From the album sleeve:

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?