Sun Kil Moon: Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Vinyl 2xLP)
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. 2018 reissue.
- Glenn Tipton
- Carry Me Ohio
- Salvador Sanchez
- Last Tide
- Floating
- Gentle Moon
- Lily And Parrots
- Duk Koo Kim
- Sí, Paloma
- Pancho Villa
- Gentle Moon (Acoustic)