These are live recordings from an online concert commemorating the 6-month anniversary of the album The 20-Year-Old Virgo.
The concert and these quality tracks would not have been possible without the help and expertise of sound engineer and multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah Vela-Murphy.

Pictured on cover from left to right: Jeremiah Vela-Murphy, Kevin Reidy, Erik Tompkins, and Ethan Kim

Songwriting, Lead Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Harmonica - Kevin Reidy (Pope Suburban)
Sound Engineering, Harmony Vocals, Banjo, Bass, Mandolin - Jeremiah Vela-Murphy
Trumpets - Erik Tompkins & Ethan Kim

Mastered by Kyle Khanmohamed

This Unfortunate Son (Live from Home)

Carry Me Back Home (Live from Home)

The Golden State (Live from Home)

California Beauty (Live from Home)

Sherry Fraser (Marcy Playground Cover)(Live from Home)

The Native West of the Golden Girls (For Betty White)

All instruments and production by Kevin Reidy
Written by Richard O'Brien and Richard Hartley
Pictured on Cover: Katie Caracciolo

"Science Fiction/Double Feature" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Song and Performance by Pope Suburban (Kevin Reidy).
Recorded March 8, 2020 in a dorm room on-campus at UCLA.
The second of many solo, acoustic demos of original songs written over the last two-and-a-half years. Fully produced and mastered versions of these songs are yet to come.
Special thanks to Youngbo Shim, whose guitar I have appropriated for my dorm indefinitely and used for these demos.

Lyrics:
Cellophane snowflakes that littered the floor that you swept
Over the ocean that swallowed the tears that you wept
I looked in the mirror, and I watched how you got undressed
Your hands were like slow spiders, I wish you weren’t so depressed
But I faked a smile

Freezing cold beaches, like sandpaper breathing in
Watching the ocean crash down, hear it thundering
You sat beside me and sighed, “me and you should quit”
So I packed up the blanket and I said, “well I guess that’s it”
And you faked a smile

So I pulled the cord and I watched that red light turn on
The whole world stopped for me until St. Peter asked me, “what’s wrong?”
I told him, “nothing,” and I walked right off that bus
And took one last look at the ocean, how could you abandon us?

Oh/woah (x14)

And I faked a smile

Faked a Smile (Bedroom Demo)

SF - CA
"An old soul with a promising future in music" according to the San Francisco Rock Project, Pope Suburban is the bedroom-folk/rock project of a local singer-songwriter.

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