Ghosts of the Great Highway

Ghosts of the Great Highway (JetSet Records TWA 53) is the 2003 debut album by San Francisco quartet Sun Kil Moon, led by Red House Painters' founder Mark Kozelek, who composed all of the lyrics and music on this album. Other members are Geoff Stanfield, Anthony Koutsos and Tim Mooney.

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2003 - San Francisco - Sun Kil Moon - Red House Painters - Mark Kozelek - Geoff Stanfield - Anthony Koutsos - Tim Mooney

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The album is marked instrumentally by both quiet acoustic numbers (including the addition of Portuguese guitar to the instrumentation) and louder Crazy Horse-esque distorted guitar. Vocally this album seems more extroverted than his previous work, the lyrics balancing epic tragedy ("Salvador Sanchez," "Pancho Villa" and "Duk Koo Kim," all titled for boxers -- "Pancho Villa" refers not to the revolutionary, but to a Philippine boxer who fought under that name), personal emotional states, and an occasionally surprising lightness of spirit ("Lily and Parrots," "Glenn Tipton"). "Glenn Tipton," the album's opener, is named for the guitarist of metal band Judas Priest, and makes comparative reference to the guitarist who replaced Tipton, K.K. Downing.

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Guitar - Lyrics - Salvador Sanchez - Pancho Villa - Duk Koo Kim - Glenn Tipton - Judas Priest - K.K. Downing

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