Sufjan Stevens – Michigan – LP

2LP Vinyl

Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State (2003) is the album by Sufjan Stevens that launched his celebrated state-themed project. Composed as a geographical tone poem, it draws on personal anecdote, regional history, and state heritage, mixing social and political themes with songs about snowmobiles, Henry Ford, and love, in a style that is at once rock and bluegrass, jazz and pop.

Features

• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records

Track Listing

1. Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)
2. All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! or Forever Hold Your Peace!
3. For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti
4. Say Yes! to M!ch!gan!
5. Upper Peninsula
6. Tahquamenon Falls
7. Holland
8. Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
9. Romulus
10. Alanson, Crooked River
11. Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
12. They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For the Homeless in Muskegon)
13. Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickerel Lake? Pigeon? Marquette?...)
14. Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
15. Vito's Ordination Song