Have Heart The Things We Carry #B9R075

Release Date: 08/08/2006

A top 5 label defining album for Bridge Nine, this title is a favorite of collectors and is currently in its 11th pressing.  The first edition of The Things We Carry was limited to 1,000 copies.  Of which, 100 pieces (split between 60 of the brown marble and 40 of the blue marble record) had spray-painted record release covers made by the band themselves.  The first two pressings came in accompanying gatefold LP jackets.  For the 3rd pressing, we switched to a standard LP jacket, but for the 4th pressing, after realizing that we had at least 100 gatefold jackets left over, we pressed an additional 100 copies on black vinyl to make use of them.  This black vinyl variant was initially not made publicly available; it was sent to random mail-order customers instead of the red vinyl variant they had ordered (of which 1,000 copies had been pressed) as a surprise upgrade.  The fourth pressing also saw this title moving to a new pressing plant, as the first three pressings had been done at GZ Vinyl through a vinyl broker who had gone out of business.  New test pressings were ordered and approved from United Record Pressing in Nashville, TN, and pressing number four through thirteen were pressed there.

In 2024, Bridge Nine commemorated Have Heart’s return to the stage with a new pressing. New test presses had to be made, and five different variants were made, which were exclusively available from Bridge Nine, the band at Sound & Fury and in Boston, RevHQ, Project M (Revolver, Brooklyn Vegan, Alt Press), and Coretex in Berlin, Germany.

Track Listing:
1. Life Is Hard Enough
2. Watch Me Sink
3. Armed With A Mind
4. About Face
5. The Unbreakable
6. Old Man II
7. Song Of Shame
8. To Us Fools
9. Something More Than Ink
10. The Machinist
11. Watch Me Rise