Your Ghost

"Your Ghost"
Single by Kristin Hersh
from the album Hips and Makers
B-side	"The Key", "Uncle June and Aunt Kiyoti", "When the Levee Breaks"
Released	January 10, 1994
Format	7", CD single
Recorded	Stable Sound, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Genre	Indie rock, folk
Length	3:16
Label	4AD (UK) Sire (U.S.)
Songwriter(s)	Kristin Hersh
Producer(s)	Lenny Kaye, Kristin Hersh
Kristin Hersh singles chronology
"Your Ghost" (1994) "A Loon" (1994)
"Your Ghost" (1994) "A Loon" (1994)

"Your Ghost" is the first track from Kristin Hersh's debut solo studio album Hips and Makers. It features additional backing vocals from Michael Stipe of R.E.M..

Description

The song was released as a single on January 10, 1994 and reached #45 in the UK singles chart. It was featured in the film With Honors that spring and appears on the original motion picture soundtrack. According to Filmmaker magazine, the music video for the song was directed by Katherine Dieckmann and is an homage to Maya Deren's groundbreaking 1943 experimental film Meshes of the Afternoon.^[1]

Track listing

• CD single (BAD 4001 CD)

1. "Your Ghost"
2. "The Key"
3. "Uncle June and Aunt Kiyoti"
4. "When the Levee Breaks"

Samples and covers

Hersh re-recorded the song, titling it "Your Ghost 2006", with her group 50 Foot Wave.

The song was sampled in DJ Scott Browns's gabber song "Ghosts" and μ-Ziq's "Phiesope."

Recorded cover versions include those by Black Lab, on their album Passion Leaves a Trace, IRA, on their X album, and Greg Laswell, on his October 2009 five-song EP Covers. Laswell's version was featured in US television programmes Grey's Anatomy and Dollhouse.

References