This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
A couple of years ago, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek put out an album of AC/DC covers.
On his latest CD Ghosts Of The Great Highway — recorded with his new band Sun Kil Moon — the former Red House Painters frontman pens odes to doomed pugilists Salvador Sanchez and Duk Koo Kim, and namedrops Sonny Liston, Cassius Clay and Judas Priest guitarists K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton within the first 20 seconds. But for a guy who seems so fascinated by heavy metal and boxing, Kozelek remains something of a sensitive soul — musically speaking. Like pretty much every other album of his career, Ghosts is a stark, languid affair, with quiet melodies, vast windswept landscapes and Kozelek’s tragic, Neil Young-with-a-cold vocal twang. Which is not to say it’s disappointing in any way — with their unadorned beauty and honest melancholy, not to mention Kozelek’s enigmatic lyrics, these 10 numbers are far more intriguing and moving than the usual one-dimensional fare. Still, you can’t help but think he might be a happier campier if he just turned up the amp and rocked out once in blue moon.
