Living with Your Ghost
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{{Infobox album
| name = Living with Your Ghost
| type = studio
| artist = Kara Grainger
| cover = Kara Grainger Living With Your Ghost cover art.png
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2018|06|01|df=y}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Wire Recording Studio, Austin, Texas
| genre = {{hlist|Roots|blues|soul{{cite web |url=http://bluesrockreview.com/2018/04/kara-grainger-to-release-living-with-your-ghost.html |title=Kara Grainger to release "Living With Your Ghost" |work=Blues Rock Review |date=10 April 2018 |accessdate=23 June 2018}}}}
| length = {{duration|m=49|s=42}}
| label = Station House Records
| producer = {{hlist|Anders Osborne|Kara Grainger{{cn|date=August 2023}}}}
| prev_title = Shiver & Sigh
| prev_year = 2013
| next_title =
| next_year =
}}
Living with Your Ghost is the fourth solo studio album by United States-based blues rock singer/songwriter/guitarist from Australia, Kara Grainger. It was released on 1 June 2018.{{cite web |url=https://www.rockandbluesmuse.com/2018/05/30/album-review-living-with-your-ghost-by-kara-grainger/ |title=Album Review: Living With Your Ghost by Kara Grainger |work=Rock and Blues Muse with Martine Ehrenclou |date=30 May 2018 |accessdate=23 June 2018 |author=Bampton, Scott}}
Development
The album was recorded at the Wire Recording Studio in Austin, Texas. Grainger wrote or co-wrote all but one of the songs on the album, the exception being a cover of her friend Jackie Bristow's song "Broken Record".{{cite web |url=https://www.americanbluesscene.com/kara-grainger-is-enjoying-her-journey-and-her-music/ |title=Kara Grainger Is Enjoying Her Journey and Her Music |work=American Blues Scene |date=12 May 2018 |accessdate=23 June 2018 |author=Kerzner, Barry}} The album ranges from blues rock, rock and roll, and Americana.{{cite web |url=http://nodepression.com/album-review/kara-grainger-steps-spotlight-0 |title=Kara Grainger Steps Into the Spotlight |work=No Depression |date=3 June 2018 |accessdate=23 June 2018 |author=Kleinman, Jon}}
Track listing
{{Tracklist
| total_length = 49:42
| title1 = Living with Your Ghost
| writer1 = Kara Grainger{{cite AV media notes |title=Living with Your Ghost |others=Kara Grainger |year=2018 |type=CD liner |publisher=Station House Records |id=SHR 0101 |location=United States}}
| length1 = 4:08
| title2 = Working My Way Back Home
| writer2 = Grainger
| length2 = 4:12
| title3 = Man with Soul
| writer3 = Grainger, Trevor Manear
| length3 = 3:40
| title4 = Nowhere to Be Found
| writer4 = Grainger
| length4 = 4:06
| title5 = You're in New Orleans
| writer5 = Grainger, Anders Osborne, Andrew Duhon
| length5 = 3:23
| title6 = Groove Train
| writer6 = Grainger, Osborne
| length6 = 4:40
| title7 = Reason to My Verse
| writer7 = Grainger
| length7 = 3:41
| title8 = Broken Record
| writer8 = Jackie Bristow, Mark Punch
| length8 = 3:43
| title9 = Favourite Sin
| writer9 = Grainger, Osborne, Julia King
| length9 = 3:42
| title10 = Nobody But You
| writer10 = Grainger
| length10 = 4:34
| title11 = Love Will Get You Through the Door
| writer11 = Grainger, Osborne
| length11 = 3:52
| title12 = Freedom Song
| writer12 = Grainger
| length12 = 6:01
}}
Personnel
- Kara Grainger - vocals, guitar
- Anders Osborne - guitar, backing vocals
- Ivan Neville - keys, backing vocals
- Dave Monsey - bass
- J.J. Johnson - drums
- Mark Rudin - trumpet
- George Stanford - trombone
- The Texas Horns
:*Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff - tenor saxophone
:*John Mills - baritone saxophone
:*Al Gomez - trumpet
:*James Fenner - congas
- Produced by Anders Osborne and Kara Grainger
- Executive production by Don Ritter
- Engineered by Stuart Sullivan
- Additional engineering by Don Ritter
- Additional engineering by Carter Greeves
- Mastered by William Bowden