Ghost of David

Infobox Album
Name = Ghost of David
Type = Studio Album
Artist = Damien Jurado


Released = September 19, 2000
Recorded =
Genre =
Length =
Label = Sub Pop Records
Producer =
Reviews = *Pitchfork Media (8.2/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/18944-ghost-of-david link]
Last album = "Rehearsals for Departure"
(1999)
This album = "Ghost of David"
(2000)
Next album = "I Break Chairs"
(2002)

Ghost of David is an album by the singer-songwriter Damien Jurado, released in 2000 on Sub Pop records. The David of the title is Jurado's friend and former bandmate in Coolidge, David Bazan, who is most famously Pedro the Lion's frontman. In tone, "Ghost of David" is bleak, spare, and depressing. Most of its thirteen songs concern deception, death or tell tragic stories of deception and death. For example, "Medication," the album's opener, is a first-person tale: the narrator, under the strain of having an adulterous affair with a police officer's wife as well as caring for his mentally unbalanced brother, prays for his brother's death. "December" laments a man who froze to death in his car. "Paxil," as its title suggests (referring to an anti-depressant drug), mentions medicating "a heart that doesn't work."

Track listing

#Medication
#Desert
#Johnny Go Riding
#Great Today
#Tonight I Will Retire
#Ghost of David
#Parking Lot
#Rearview
#Paxil
#Walk with Me
#December
#Rosewood Casket
#Ghost in the Snow