The Ghost Who Walks Explained

The Ghost Who Walks
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Karen Elson
Cover:	The Ghost Who Walks cover.jpeg
Genre:	Indie folk, alt.country, dark cabaret
Label:	XL, Third Man
Producer:	Jack White

The Ghost Who Walks is the debut album from British supermodel and singer-songwriter Karen Elson. Elson told DJ Steve Lamacq: "The title was a nickname that I had at school. It was one of the nicer nicknames I had for being tall, pale and a little bit haunted."^[1]

The lead single from the album is title song, "The Ghost Who Walks".

Tracks

1. "The Ghost Who Walks" (Elson)
2. "The Truth Is in the Dirt" (Elson)
3. "Pretty Babies" (Elson, Garniez)
4. "Lunasa" (Garniez)
5. "100 Years from Now" (Elson, Garniez, Bojadziev)
6. "Stolen Roses" (Elson)
7. "Cruel Summer" (Elson)
8. "Garden" (Elson)
9. "The Birds They Circle" (Elson)
10. "A Thief at My Door" (Elson)
11. "The Last Laugh" (Elson)
12. "Mouths to Feed" (Elson, Garniez)
13. "In Trouble with the Lord" (Elson) (iTunes bonus track)

Chart performance

Album Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Austrian Album Chart	72^[2]
Belgian Flanders Album Chart	76^[3]
Belgian Wallonia Album Chart	99^[4]
Greek Album Charts	30^[5]
Swiss Music Charts	39^[6]
US Billboard Heatseekers	16^[7]
UK Indie Chart	16^[8]
UK Independent Albums Breakers Top 20	2^[9]

Singles Charts

Year	Single	Chart	Peak Position
2010	"The Ghosts Who Walks"	UK Independent Singles Breakers Charts^[10]	19
2010	"The Ghosts Who Walks"	NME Singles Charts^[11]	14

External links

• Official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Ghost Who Walks by Karen Elson – Songfacts. www.songfacts.com.
2. Web site: Karen Elson – The Ghost Who Walks. Steffen. Hung. austriancharts.at.
3. Web site: Karen Elson – The Ghost Who Walks. ultratop.be.
4. Web site: Karen Elson – The Ghost Who Walks. ultratop.be.
5. Web site: Greek Music Chart . 18 June 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724035817/http://greekcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Karen+Elson&titel=The+Ghost+Who+Walks&cat=a . 24 July 2011 . dead .
6. Web site: Karen Elson – The Ghost Who Walks – hitparade.ch. hitparade.ch.
7. Billboard Heatseekers
8. https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/independent-albums-chart/20100530/131/ UK Indie Chart
9. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/independent-albums-breakers-chart/ UK Independent Albums Breakers Chart
10. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/independent-singles-breakers-chart/ Independent Singles Breakers Charts
11. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/nme-singles-chart/ NME Charts