Checkin' Out the Ghosts
Checkin' Out the Ghosts is the twelfth studio album by American singer Kim Carnes, released exclusively in Japan on March 21, 1991, via Zebrazone. Carnes co-produced the album with Joey Carbone.
Two years after the album was released, Carnes re-recorded the track "Gypsy Honeymoon" for her 1993 compilation album, Gypsy Honeymoon: The Best of Kim Carnes. Checkin' Out the Ghosts includes a re-recording of "Hangin' On by a Thread ", which first appeared on Carnes' album Café Racers. "Independent Girl" was released as the album's only single in 1991.
Production
- Fumihiro Ishikawa – executive producer
- Joey Carbone – producer, arrangements
- Kim Carnes – producer, arrangements
- Leslie Ann Jones – recording, mixing
- Bill Smith – recording, mixing
- Mitch Zelezny – recording
- Matt Hyde – mixing
- Tom Biener – assistant engineer
- Ray Blair – assistant engineer
- Scott Blockland – assistant engineer
- Chris Fuhrman – assistant engineer
- Mark Hagen – assistant engineer
- Stephen Marcussen – mastering at Precision Mastering
- Michelle Hart – production coordinator
- Norman Moore – design
- Henry Diltz – photography
Personnel
- Kim Carnes – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Steve Goldstein – keyboards, synthesizers
- Collin Ellingson – programming, keyboard programming, guitar programming
- Mike Tavera – keyboards, programming
- Michael Thompson – guitars
- Troy Dexter – guitars
- Dennis Belfield – bass
- Carlos Vega – drums
- Joey Carbone – tambourine, backing vocals, keyboards
- Roger Lebow – cello
- Steve Madaio – trumpet
- Dave Ellingson – backing vocals
- Lynne Fiddmont-Linsey – backing vocals
- Tampa Lann – backing vocals
- Andrea Robinson – backing vocals
- David Lasley – backing vocals
- Arnold McCuller – backing vocals
- Julie Waters – backing vocals
- Maxine Waters – backing vocals
- Joseph Williams – backing vocals
- Donna Weiss – backing vocals
- Crossroads Chamber Chorus – backing vocals
- Carole Keiser – chorus director
- Bill Champlin – backing vocals
- George Hawkins – backing vocals
- Myrna Matthews – backing vocals