Sufjan Stevens – Greetings From Michigan The Great Lake State (2xLP)
Sufjan Stevens – Greetings From Michigan The Great Lake State (2xLP)
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Composed as a geographical tone poem, "Michigan" follows a metaphysical expedition through the idiosyncrasies of middle America. Drawing from personal anecdote, regional history, and state heritage, Stevens mixes social and political grievances with songs about snowmobiles, Henry Ford, the Detroit race riots, and love. "Michigan's" songs resonate with a range of sources-Vince Guaraldi, Terry Riley, and Nick Drake as accompanied by Stereolab and The Sea & Cake-in executing Stevens' peculiar palette that is simultaneously rock and blue-grass, jazz and pop, a style The Village Voice appraises as "Arthur Lee meets the Book of Psalms."
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AllMusic rating:AllMusic users:(814 votes)Artist: Sufjan StevensLabel: Asthmatic Kitty Records, Sounds FamilyreFormat: LPUnits: 2Country: USGenre: Pop & RockA1 Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)
A2 All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
A3 For The Widows Of Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti
A4 Say Yes! To M!Ch!Gan!
A5 The Upper Peninsula
B1 Tahquamenon Falls
B2 Holland
B3 Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
B4 Romulus
B5 Alanson, Crooked River
C1 Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
C2 They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For The Homeless In Muskegon)
C3 Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)
C4 Redford (For Yia-Yia &Amp; Pappou)
C5 Vito'S Ordination Song
Bonus Outtakes
D1 Marching Band
D2 Pickerel Lake
D3 Niagara Falls
D4 Presidents &Amp; Magistrates
D5 Wolverine
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