Grayghost is a band with which I’m intimately acquainted, thanks to sheer repetition and osmosis. Why is this? Grayghost was one of the frequently recurring house bands at Old Town Grain & Feed, a bar in downtown Fort Smith which also had some apartments upstairs. I lived there for three years, and got to hear plenty of Grayghost nearly every Friday night. I’ll admit, Grayghost rocks hard and plays loud, so this did make sleep somewhat difficult at times. But with the benefit of living a thousand miles now, I find that I actually miss a lot of their original numbers. Grayghost could belt out some mean covers, but their original songs are truly unique. Though this CD varies wildly from their usual live set list, it’s still a decent document of their most-requested songs. Included are the wild guitar solo “Hale-Bopp” (which makes a stellar segue into “Mars”), “Train”, “X-Ray”, the reggae-rocker “Drive”, and hard rockers “Naked” and “Suicide”. Grayghost’s female lead vocalist sometimes sounds like she’s swallowed a cup full of razor blades, but at other times she 
sounds like a throatier, sexier Janis Joplin; “Train” and “Already” are good examples of this. On a couple of songs, namely “Naked”, the vocals are almost too processed to make any kind of sense of them, but it’s not necessary – it’s not as if any of the singing is so bad that it needs to be phased, flanged, and echoed to cover it up.
- Miracle (3:26)
- Spaceman (2:56)
- Mexico (2:43)
- Skin (4:54)
- X-Ray (3:35)
- Bikini (3:39)
- Drive (4:23)
- Hale-Bopp (1:52)
- Mars (3:53)
- Stupid (3:34)
- Catholic (3:08)
- Fiddle (0:57)
- Train (2:50)
- Naked (3:29)
- Suicide (4:16)
- Already (4:01)
Released by: Fat Rabbit
Release date: 1997
Total running time: 53:31
