Ghana (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Ghana
Type = compilation
Artist = The Mountain Goats


Released = 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Folk-rock, Lo-fi, Rock
Length = 68:26
Label = Ajax, 3 Beads of Sweat
Producer = John Darnielle
Reviews =
*Pitchfork Media (8.9/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/20056/Mountain_Goats_Protein_Source_of_the_Future_Now_Bitter_Me link]
Last album = Bitter Melon Farm
(1999)
This album = Ghana
(1999)
Next album =

"Ghana" is third in a three-part series of compilations of songs by The Mountain Goats that have appeared on various releases. It is preceded by Protein Source of the Future...Now!, and Bitter Melon Farm.

Track listing

# Golden Boy
# Pure Gold
# Papagallo
# Song for John Davis
# Stars Around Her
# Going to Port Washington
# Blood Royal
# Only Thing I Know
# Raja Vocative
# Hatha Hill
# Going to Kirby Sigston
# Please Come Home to Hamngatan
# Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life
# Orange Ball of Peace
# Standard Bitter Love Song #8
# Chino Love Song 1979
# Wrong!
# Going to Jamaica
# Alpha Gelida
# Wild Palm City
# Anglo-Saxons [Live]
# Flight 717: Going to Denmark
# Admonishing Song
# Anti-Music Song
# Going to Hungary
# Earth Air Water Trees
# Creature Song
# Pure Sound
# Going to Maine
# Noctifer Birmingham
# Leaving Home

Original Recordings

Roughly half of the songs on Ghana appeared on previous Mountain Goats releases.

*Tracks 2-5 are from "Songs about Fire".
*Tracks 7-10 are from "Orange Raja".
*Tracks 14-19 are from "Taking the Dative".
*Tracks 24-26 are from "Tropical Depression".

The remainder originally appeared on compilation recordings which included multiple artists.

Personnel

* John Darnielle - Vocals, Guitar