Living with Your Ghost

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Living with Your Ghost
Kara Grainger Living With Your Ghost cover art.png
Studio album by
Released1 June 2018 (2018-06-01)
StudioWire Recording Studio, Austin, Texas
Genre
Length49:42
Label Station House Records [1]
Producer
Kara Grainger chronology
Shiver & Sigh
(2013)
Living with Your Ghost
(2018)

Living with Your Ghost is the fourth solo studio album by United States-based blues rock singer/songwriter/guitarist from Australia, Kara Grainger. It was released on 1 June 2018. [2]

Contents

Development

The album was recorded at the Wire Recording Studio in Austin, Texas. Grainger wrote or co-wrote all but one of the songs on the album, the exception being a cover of her friend Jackie Bristow's song "Broken Record". [3] The album ranges from blues rock, rock and roll, and Americana. [4]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Living with Your Ghost"Kara Grainger [5] 4:08
2."Working My Way Back Home"Grainger4:12
3."Man with Soul"Grainger, Trevor Manear3:40
4."Nowhere to Be Found"Grainger4:06
5."You're in New Orleans"Grainger, Anders Osborne, Andrew Duhon3:23
6."Groove Train"Grainger, Osborne4:40
7."Reason to My Verse"Grainger3:41
8."Broken Record"Jackie Bristow, Mark Punch3:43
9."Favourite Sin"Grainger, Osborne, Julia King3:42
10."Nobody But You"Grainger4:34
11."Love Will Get You Through the Door"Grainger, Osborne3:52
12."Freedom Song"Grainger6:01
Total length:49:42

Personnel

Musicians [5]

  • Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff - tenor saxophone
  • John Mills - baritone saxophone
  • Al Gomez - trumpet
  • James Fenner - congas

Production [5]

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