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Sun Kil Moon Wiki Information
Sun Kil Moon
is the project of singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek, best known for his previous band, Red House Painters. Sun Kil Moon sees Kozelek undertake the writing, composing, singing and guitar playing accompanied by Tim Mooney and Anthony Koutsos on drums, and Geoff Stanfield on bass.
The band is named after Korean bantamweight boxer Sung-Kil Moon. [1] [2]
Sun Kil Moon's debut album, Ghosts of the Great Highway
, first released in 2003 by Jetset Records, contains several songs concerned with true-life stories of deceased boxers, such as featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez, flyweight Pancho Villa, and also Duk Koo Kim.
Ghosts of the Great Highway
was re-issued as a double CD on February 6, 2007 on Kozelek's own label, Caldo Verde. The second disc features six bonus tracks, including the cover of "Somewhere" written by Leonard Bernstein.
The band's follow-up Tiny Cities
was released on November 1, 2005 on Kozelek's Caldo Verde Records. The album covers eleven songs by the indie/alternative group Modest Mouse.
Sun Kil Moon's third studio album is called April
and was released April 1, 2008. [3] It features guest vocals from Will Oldham and Ben Gibbard.
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SUN KIL MOON TICKETS
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Discography
- Ghosts of the Great Highway
(November 4, 2003)
- Tiny Cities
(November 1, 2005)''
- Ghosts of the Great Highway
2CD re-issue (February 6, 2007)
- April
(April 1, 2008)
- Tonight the Sky
EP (January 2009)
Soundtracks / Songs in Films or Television
- "Kentucky Woman" (in Elizabethtown
)
- "The Arrival" (in The Girl Next Door
)
- "Carry Me Ohio" and "Lily And Parrots" (in Shopgirl
)
- "Gentle Moon" (in Friday Night Lights
)
- "Heron Blue" (in Crash
season 1, episode "F-36, Sprint Left, T-4" during closing credits)
- "Lost Verses" (in Californication (TV series)
Season 2 episode 12 : La petite mort)
- "Like The River" (in Sons of Anarchy
) Season 1 pilot
References
- Rockpile
- [1]
- Sun Kil Moon's official website
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