Ghana (album)

Ghana
Compilation album by the Mountain Goats
Released	1999
Genre	Folk-rock, Lo-fi, Rock
Length	68:26
Label	Ajax, 3 Beads of Sweat
Producer	John Darnielle
the Mountain Goats chronology
Bitter Melon Farm (1999) Ghana (1999)

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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

1. Golden Boy
2. Pure Gold
3. Papagallo
4. Song for John Davis
5. Stars Around Her
6. Going to Port Washington
7. Blood Royal
8. Only Thing I Know
9. Raja Vocative
10. Hatha Hill
11. Going to Kirby Sigston
12. Please Come Home to Hamngatan
13. Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life
14. Orange Ball of Peace
15. Standard Bitter Love Song #8
16. Chino Love Song 1979
17. Wrong!
18. Going to Jamaica
19. Alpha Gelida
20. Wild Palm City
21. Anglo-Saxons [Live]
22. Flight 717: Going to Denmark
23. Admonishing Song
24. Anti-Music Song
25. Going to Hungary
26. Earth Air Water Trees
27. Creature Song
28. Pure Sound
29. Going to Maine
30. Noctifer Birmingham
31. 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 (EP).

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

Personnel

• John Darnielle - Vocals, Guitar

Cover versions

• Michael and the G2s cover "Going to Port Washington" in their album "Michael and the G2s Cover Everything."[1]