‘Car Button Cloth’, originally released on Atlantic Records is set for a special one-off Limited Edition “clothbound” edition.
This special 2xLP version will be available in three unique blue (car), red (button) and yellow (cloth) colour vinyl pressings (out 31st January 2025). This edition includes the original record alongside a whole extra LP of rarities and unreleased cuts, continuing Fire Records in-depth series of reissues from the legendary band.
‘Car Button Cloth’ is an extraordinary affair of musical and emotional extremes, a soundscape spanning “the most beautiful piano-led mourning in the history of the broken heart” that switches into perky jangle-pop for fleeting moments and contains the ultimate self-deprecating classic ‘The Outdoor Type’, penned by Smudge cohort Tom Morgan, as well as a cover of the bluegrass standard ‘Knoxville Girl’ and ‘If I Could I’d Tell You’ co-written with The Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly. All bases are covered.
When discussing the 1996 album, Evan Dando explained: “The big difference about ‘Car Button Cloth’ from ‘Come On Feel the Lemonheads’ is that I could reach into that dark period of my life that was going on and pull experiences out of that with 20/20 vision, which I really couldn’t do before.”
To further unravel where Evan’s head was at during the period of its creation, this deluxe double album comes with a record of exquisite and typically eclectic scene setting covers that occupied B-sides and alternative format versions, plus other super rare offcuts, live takes and remixes.
A diet of Volcano Suns, Glen Campbell, The Jacobites, The Sir Douglas Quintet and Whitney Houston influenced Evan’s thinking and added further colour to an album that remains something of a Dorian Gray-style masterpiece. The first side of extras is rounded off with the never before released ‘Arise’, originally set for the remake of Great Expectations and later realised as ‘Rancho Santa Fe’ on solo album ‘Baby I’m Bored’.
