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	Sun Kil Moon: Ghosts Of The Great Highway (2003): Reviews
		Ghosts of the Great Highway easily ranks among the very best of Kozelek's dense discography, and it seems fair to suggest that it will become the measuring stick against which any future non-Red House Painters material is compared.
		Ghosts of the Great Highway represents an expansive, continent-traversing narrative that evokes the literary style of John Steinbeck and the vivid imagery of everyday American life captured in the watercolors of Edward Hopper.
		Ghosts of the Great Highway is one of those albums that you want to have around for when life gets you down.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/sunkilmoon/ghostsofthegreathighway (761 words)

	* Dusted Labels [ Jetset ] *
		Ghosts of the Great Highway by Sun Kil Moon ranked 11 on Feb.
		Ghosts of the Great Highway by Sun Kil Moon ranked 1 on Jan.
		Ghosts Of The Great Highway by Sun Kil Moon ranked 8 on Dec.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /labels/202 (578 words)

	Spotlight on SUN KIL MOON
		Ghosts of the Great Highway is the remarkable debut album from Mark Kozelek's long-anticipated new band, Sun Kil Moon.
		The songs on ‘Ghosts of the Great Highway’ concern themselves more than ever with matters of life and death, without ever forgetting the inherent magic of a pretty melody or a gripping beat.
		‘Ghosts of the Great Highway’ was recorded in San Francisco between March 2002 and May 2003 with drummers Anthony Koutsos (Red House Painters) and Tim Mooney (American Music Club), Seattle bassist Geoff Stanfield (formerly of Black Lab), and a string trio from the San Francisco Conservatory.
	www.universalbuzz.com /ArtistspotlightNumber.asp?Number=86 (571 words)

	Sad Reminders / "Ghosts of the Great Highway" to be reissued with bonus EP
		Re: "Ghosts of the Great Highway" to be reissued with bonus EP I totally hear what you're saying bgwahl, and you're right that the power belongs to the buyer, and Koz isn't like coercing us into buying his shit.
		Re: "Ghosts of the Great Highway" to be reissued with bonus EP I think its funny that some of you guys get all sensitive when people talk a little shit about their displeasure about mark putting out new stuff.
		Re: "Ghosts of the Great Highway" to be reissued with bonus EP I do agree with Sickboy that some people are taking these comments too seriously, but to me, if you're a true fan, then you would buy the re-release w/o thinking about it.
	www.sadreminders.com /interaction/viewtopic.php?id=1337&action=new (1495 words)

	Great Getaways
		I was impressed, I just retired 4-1-08 and this was the first time I saw Great Getaways, I pass through Manistique several times a year "on the road to Gwinn", now I have a reason for a prolonged stay in Manistique area.
		This is a great way to let people know what is available to experience on a Michigan vacation.
		it was a great show..We've been to the U.P. numerous times..We love to camp and also went to Cedarville for many years..
	www.greatgetaways.tv /viewer.html (1843 words)

	Sun Kil Moon: Ghosts of the Great Highway: Pitchfork Record Review
		Ghost of the Great Highway is the sonic equivalent of a tightly woven patchwork quilt, a sprawling aesthetic manifesto overflowing with empathy, warmth, nostalgia, and an intensely resigned anger and yearning to reclaim those who time has taken.
		All sense of time and stability are lost; Ghost of the Great Highway comes to symbolize the mechanics of actual memories, where people, places, discussions, events, and disarmingly ordinary and average moments are jumbled longingly together with little sense of any historic time-line outside of one's own experiences.
		Sun Kil Moon's Ghost of the Great Highway is a modest win for great music everywhere: it is the triumphant sound of an industry underdog finally making good on his past potential, and consequently demanding some long unappreciated due.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/22255-ghosts-of-the-great-highway (916 words)

	Ghosts Of The Great Highway \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		But the fact that Kozelek's new band makes the most accessible music of his career is either indicative of his stage of musical development, or a sign that Sun Kil Moon is markedly different from his best-known incarnation.
		His basic sound hasn't changed much: Ghosts Of The Great Highway still highlights Kozelek's angst-ridden voice and his slow-flowing interplay of folky acoustic guitars and thick, scorching electric guitars.
		Ghosts Of The Great Highway is all soft spots but no weak spots, and when Kozelek brings his ideas together—like on the outro bridge of "Carry Me Ohio," where the rhythm guitar steps slowly up while the lead guitar spirals down and a few lightly struck bells jingle in between—the album sounds supernaturally informed.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/14804 (237 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ghosts of the Great Highway: Sun Kil Moon: Music
		'Ghosts Of The Great Highway' is the debut album from former Red House Painters frontman, Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon.
		I hope any RHP fan will love this as it brings back to life some of those great moment from which RHP were at their best.
		At times previous efforts have been too acoustic and one dimentional, but now on 'ghosts of the great highway' we have enough electric guitar to satisfy and even a string quartet which i have always wished for alongside Kozelek's voice.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Ghosts-Great-Highway-Sun-Moon/dp/B0000DIZSW (785 words)

	The Yale Herald - February 13, 2004 - sun kil moon - ghosts of the great highway
		The Yale Herald - February 13, 2004 - sun kil moon - ghosts of the great highway
		In spite of these faults, Ghosts of the Great Highway by no means fails.
		Even so, Ghosts of the Great Highway ends up more than mere mixtape fodder, and ultimately succeeds at something along the lines of your root beer float: really, really good as a whole, but heartbreakingly deficient otherwise.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=2953 (466 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / CD reviews / CD Pick: Sun Kil Moon, 'Ghosts of the Great Highway"
		Sun Kil Moon might not be the project that propels Kozelek to stardom, but it is continuing proof of his standing as one of modern rock's most versatile tunesmiths.
		On "Ghosts of the Great Highway" Kozelek channels the influence of Nick Drake (the melancholy lyrics of "Glenn Tipton" and the lovely acoustic instrumental "Si, Paloma") as well as the earthy riffs of Neil Young (the glorious climbing solo in "Salvador Sanchez") with equal success.
		The addition of strings to "Last Tide" magnifies the song's sense of longing before a gorgeous bridge segues into the delicate acoustic guitar of "Floating" while the more straightforward delivery of "Lily and Parrots" is reminiscent of Pavement.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/cd_reviews/articles/2003/12/05/cd_pick_sun_kil_moon_ghosts_of_the_great_highway (1220 words)

	Sowbug Stew webZine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ghosts of the Great Highway hearkens back to the days when the concept of an “album” meant something.
		In recent years, we as music fans have become mired in a sea of discs laden with two singles and 8 stinkers.
		Likewise, listening to Ghosts of the Great Highway with its perfectly plucked strings, and the tiny imperfections in Kozelek’s voice when he sings of love lost, homesickness, and the promise of a new future will always remind me of that drive up the Oregon coast on a hazy night so surreal yet so perfect.
	www.sowbugstew.com /albums_SUNKILMOON.html (276 words)

	pastemusic.com: Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Vinyl LP) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GHOSTS OF THE GREAT HIGHWAY (VINYL LP) - SUN KIL MOON
		Kozelek tells a heroic and heartbreaking story of the champion featherweight boxer, the "magic matador" who died at the age of 23 in an auto accident.
		The guitar solos, open and wind and the drums usher in the great textured feedback in the bridge.
	www.pastestore.com /product/942 (495 words)

	Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway (Jetset)
		Sun Kil Moon's Ghosts of the Great Highway is the result.
		His use of cello, violin, bells, and mandolin are used beautifully to accent his songwriting and to give them more breadth while still remaining close to his style and sound.
		"Lily and Parrots," the only weak moment on Ghosts of the Great Highway, and the only reason this album is receiving an 11 instead of a 12, is an upbeat, herky-jerky rock song.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2004/sunkilmoon.shtml (332 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 11/19/2003 : Short Takes
		Although the Painters and now Sun Kil Moon can certainly stand the litmus test of band status, Kozelek is such an astonishingly powerful creative presence that any group of musicians he heads is clearly there to frame his work.
		Ghosts of the Great Highway, Sun Kil Moon's debut album, comes after six RHP albums and a trio of solo albums, so there are very few overt surprises here as Kozelek continues to craft emotive and atmospheric Folk/Pop as a soundtrack to his harrowing and affecting songs of personal pain and loss.
		Whether working an electric Neil Young vibe ("Salvador Sanchez"), an acoustic American Music Club angle ("Glenn Tipton") or a combination of the two (the 14-minute magnum opus "Duk Koo Kim"), Kozelek's sonic signature remains a brutal lyrical and musical honesty and the ability to weave all of his elements into a hypnotic and engaging whole.
	www.citybeat.com /2003-11-19/musicshorttakes.shtml (1179 words)

	Michael Wallis
		Today marks the "official" end of our Great American Road Trip, a cross-country book tour that has allowed us to once again experience the genuine America along the shoulders of the Lincoln Highway.
		The earliest Lincoln Highway sojourner pulled in at Orr's Ranch for fuel and food and some spent the night before moving on to points east and west.
		Jeff LaFollette, president of the Iowa Lincoln Highway Association, was on hand to introduce us and parked in front of the museum was a beautiful red 1940's-era Plymouth with an immaculately restored tear-drop shaped sleeper trailer attached.
	www.michaelwallis.com (3767 words)

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		Another great collection of songs from Mark Kozelek.
		Kozelek's lyrical work hasn't slipped by any means, and it is so good to hear his amazing voice once again.
		Ghosts Of The Great Highway is another winner for Kozelek, and is one of 2003's many gems.
	www.liepaper.com /sun.htm (147 words)

	BigYawn.net :: Sun Kil Moon :..: Ghosts of the Great Highway
		And then the second track kicks in, and (oh my god!) the hook is yanked so hard, you know it's embedded deep, and you'll gladly never be able to pull it out.
		The sound of Ghosts fits my impression of what the Painters would sound like, adding perhaps a tinge of frontier tone, hinted at by the album cover.
		Mark Kozelek re-released Ghosts of the Great Highway last month (it had criminally gone out-of-print), so we are re-running this original review from 2004.
	www.bigyawn.net /cdreview.php?id=56 (595 words)

	Poetix » Blog Archive » Ghosts of the Great Highway
		His songs are as notable for their fetishism and violence (”I still feel the sting in my hand from where I hit you / I keep your picture tidy and safe in a shrine”) as they are for their tenderness and wistful sensitivity.
		It’s therefore not altogether incongruous that Ghosts of the Great Highway, the first album from Kozelek’s Sun Kil Moon, should be littered with references to boxers; or that he should commemorate one lost love with the line “I buried my first victim when I was nineteen”.
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	codepoetics.com /poetix/?p=277 (851 words)

	indieworkshop.com \| music: Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
		This is Sun Kil Moon and they have a new record out, Ghosts of the Great Highway and it's good.
		I had to go into the back catalog for comparisons and there are a few but not enough to stop this new project from being something different.
		I can't help but think I was listening to "Break Chairs" a time or two and being more of a Damien fan, less RHP I am setting myself up for that one and you may not see it the same.
	www.indieworkshop.com /music.php?id=553 (412 words)

	Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway at the owl and the bear
		Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway at the owl and the bear
		True, this album is a little derivative (though not chronically), which might normally be a bad thing, but let’s just say that former Red House Painter Mark Kozelek has probably worn out his copy of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and leave the comparisons at that.
		The playing and songwriting are tight, and who could hate an album that begins with an aching country-rock song about a Judas Priest fan who turns out to be about a serial killer.
	www.owlandbear.com /2007/04/11/sun-kil-moon-ghosts-of-the-great-highway (312 words)

	Sun Kil Moon: Ghosts of the Great Highway: Pitchfork Record Review
		Ghosts continues-- even fine-tunes-- the work Kozelek did with his former band, the Red House Painters.
		As the title suggests, 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.
		Bruised masculinity is the album's central theme, however, evident in odes to boxers, matadors, serial killers, and musicians, all of whom inhabit the same lonely stretch of road.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/41467-ghosts-of-the-great-highway (894 words)

	Sun Kil Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ghosts of the Great Highway has been slated to be re-issued as a double CD on Februay 6, 2007 on Kozelek's own label, Caldo Verde.
		The band's follow-up Tiny Cities was released on November 1, 2005, on Caldo Verde Records.
		Ghosts of the Great Highway 2CD re-issue (February 6, 2007)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sun_Kil_Moon (410 words)

	Amazon.com: Ghosts of the Great Highway: Sun Kil Moon: Music
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		Where it's the gorgeous string trio underpinning "Last Tide," the melancholy epic "Duk Koo Kim," the unexpected driving rhythms of "Lily and Parrots," or the compelling personal reminiscences of "Floating," the material both expands and refines Kozelek's trademark sound.
		The songs on Ghosts of the Great Highway concern themselves more than ever with matters of life and death, without ever forgetting the inherent magic of a pretty melody or a gripping beat.
	www.amazon.com /Ghosts-Great-Highway-Sun-Moon/dp/B0000DIZSW (478 words)

	Neumu - 44.1kHz
		Mark Kozelek's most recent album, Ghosts of the Great Highway, is not his trademark sad-core offering, but soul-core — both historical exploration and emotional investigation of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
		Armed with virtuosic guitar and a new band, he takes us on a spiritual expedition down a haunted memory lane, not just sightseeing from the safety of a comfortable musical vehicle, but stopping frequently to take on the phantoms of the past, toe to toe.
		It's comforting to know you have a few albums waiting in your corner to dress your wounds and give support during those painful, exhausting, ugly, and/or confused moments of your life.
	neumu.net /fortyfour/2004/2004-00017/2004-00017_fortyfour.shtml (974 words)

	Review - SUN KIL MOON: Ghosts of the Great Highway
		But while Ghosts of the Great Highway possesses a bushel full of astounding songs, it isn't a perfect record by any stretch.
		Fortunately, Ghosts of the Great Highway redeems itself again and again.
		Kozelek is a rare songwriter that is far too talented to deny.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-november04/reviews/review_sun_kil_moon.html (229 words)

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		Kozelek tells a heroic and heartbreaking story of the champion featherweight boxer, the "magic matador," who died at the age of 23 in an auto accident.
		The guitar solos open and wind, and the drums usher in the great textured feedback in the bridge.
	www.emusic.com /album/10809/10809881.html (494 words)

	Aversion.com \| Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
		Ghosts of the Great Highway) is an emotional outpouring of haunting lyrics and wandering guitar riffs that flow in a strong poetic current.
		As the debut release for Sun Kil Moon, Ghosts of the American Highway leaves nothing behind in the way of passion but lays the first stepping stone for future storylines and revelations.
		Mark Kozelek cleans out his emotional cupboard, sorting through a collection of feelings and memories that have sparked his departure from a solo career into a new band, and the creation of one of 2003’s best and possibly most underappreciated albums.
	www.aversion.com /bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=1451 (388 words)

	Ghosts Of The Great Highway \| The A.V. Club
		But the fact that Kozelek's new band makes the most accessible music of his career is either indicative of his stage of musical development, or a sign that Sun Kil Moon is markedly different from his best-known incarnation.
		His basic sound hasn't changed much: Ghosts Of The Great Highway still highlights Kozelek's angst-ridden voice and his slow-flowing interplay of folky acoustic guitars and thick, scorching electric guitars.
		Ghosts Of The Great Highway is all soft spots but no weak spots, and when Kozelek brings his ideas together—like on the outro bridge of "Carry Me Ohio," where the rhythm guitar steps slowly up while the lead guitar spirals down and a few lightly struck bells jingle in between—the album sounds supernaturally informed.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/14804 (343 words)

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