Ghosts of the Great Highway, Vol. 2

Sun Kil Moon's Mark Kozelek seems to know exactly what to give his fans. This ep is a six song treasure with three recordings — two from the Ghosts Of The Great Highway sessions that didn't make the album — and three different versions of songs that did. The cover of Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" is a delicately picked, acoustic love song that sounds like it was recorded inside a cathedral. It's so sweet you have to wonder why it didn't initially make the cut. "Somewhere (version 2)" is its more orchestrated counterpart. "Arrival" is a similarly pretty instrumental that Kozelek originally recorded for the soundtrack to The Girl Next Door. Fan favorite "Carry Me Ohio" gets the acoustic treatment, as what sounds like a high-strung guitar and a hollow-body bass help Kozelek's relaxing voice strip down the original to sound like a timeless folk song. Without the Crazy Horse distortion of the original, the acoustic version of "Salvador Sanchez" sounds almost like a Tim Buckley song. And the radio version of "Gentle Moon" was recorded so intimately that if you play it in your kitchen, you could easily fool someone in the living room into thinking that Kozelek came over for dinner.