Sun Kill Moon Ghosts Of The Great Highway Vinyl LP 2018

Glenn Tipton
Carry Me Ohio
Salvador Sanchez
Last Tide
Floating
Gentle Moon
Lily And Parrots
Duk Koo Kim
Si, Paloma
Pancho Villa
Gentle Moon (Acoustic)

An album as good as Ghosts of the Great Highway should never go out of print. Ghosts continues - even finetunes - the work Mark 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, meanwhile, sounds like Neil Young’s, especially in the effortlessness with which he hits the high notes then returns to a lower, earthier texture.


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.


This new double-LP includes original bonus track Gentle Moon (Acoustic).