Ghostyhead

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Ghostyhead
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 17, 1997
StudioConway Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre Trip hop
Length55:42
Label Reprise/Warner Bros.
46557
Producer Rickie Lee Jones, Rick Boston
Rickie Lee Jones chronology
Naked Songs - Live and Acoustic
(1995)
Ghostyhead
(1997)
It's Like This
(2000)
Professional ratings
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Entertainment Weekly B [5]
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Ghostyhead (stylized as GHoSTYhead) is the seventh studio album by the American musician Rickie Lee Jones. It was released in 1997 on Warner Bros. Records.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rickie Lee Jones, with additional contributors noted.

  1. "Little Yellow Town" – 6:54
  2. "Road Kill" – 4:41
  3. "Matters" (Lee Cantelon) – 6:04
  4. "Firewalker" – 3:56
  5. "Howard" (Rick Boston) – 4:45
  6. "Ghostyhead" – 5:36
  7. "Sunny Afternoon" (Boston) – 3:54
  8. "Scary Chinese Movie" – 6:19
  9. "Cloud of Unknowing" (Boston) – 7:03
  10. "Vessel of Light" (Boston) – 6:30

Personnel

Technical

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