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. Records
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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Ghostyhead (stylized as GHoSTYhead) is the seventh studio album by the artist Rickie Lee Jones. It was released in 1997 on Warner Bros. Records.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rickie Lee Jones; except where indicated

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

Personnel

Technical

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