Sun Kil Moon
Ghosts Of The Great Highway 2LP vinyl

An album as good as Ghosts of the Great Highway should never go out of print. Ghosts continues - even fine-tunes - the work Kozelek did with his former band, Red House Painters. These songs are virtuously stoic Americana - all shimmery guitars, measured tempos, malevolent moods, and wandering melodies. His voice sounds like Neil Young’s, especially in the effortlessness with which he hits the high notes then returns to a lower, earthier texture. Ghosts is a travelogue of sorts, speeding through the Midwest and the West; in this sense, it’s the male equivalent to Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, especially in the imperfect mirroring of physical terrain and emotional geography. The band Kozelek assembled for Ghosts - Anthony Koutsos (Red House Painters), Tim Mooney (American Music Club), and Geoff Stanfield (Black Lab), along with a few guests - ably but subtly bolster his lyrics and vocals, generating a steady clip that never flags. The result is an album as hypnotic as highway divider lines whizzing past.

NEW / Released in 2003 / Reissue 2018

Tracklist:

A1 Glenn Tipton

A2 Carry Me Ohio

A3 Salvador Sanchez

B1 Last Tide

B2 Floating

B3 Gentle Moon

B4 Lily And Parrots

C Duk Koo Kim

D1 Sí, Paloma

D2 Pancho Villa

D3 Gentle Moon (Acoustic)