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Sufjan Stevens Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State

Asthmatic Kitty | Item No: 371503
Vinyl 2LP | 2004 / US – Reissue | New
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Item Description
A collection of songs for his birth-state, Michigan, “The Great Lake State.”

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.

The songs on Michigan 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.”

In Michigan, Stevens combines intimate, soft-spoken songwriting with the dense compositional complexity displayed on his previous release Enjoy Your Rabbit, which XLR8R called “…a transgressive, majestic album conjuring an academic jam session of Stereolab and Luke Vibert conducted by Steve Reich.”

Guest artists include Elin, Megan, and Daniel Smith (of The Danielson Famile), and John Ringhofer (Half-handed Cloud). Album art features original hand-paintings by Martha Stewart crafts editor Laura Normandin.
Item Details
Item No: 371503
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Title: Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Catalog No: AKR007
Format: Vinyl 2LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: US – Reissue
Release Date: 2004
Genre: Rock & Indie
Style: Folk
Available since: 2014-06-16
Condition: New
Price: $ 30.89
Weight: 500g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Flint (For The Unemployed & Unpaid)
A2 All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
A3 For The Widows In 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 & Pappou)
C5 Vito's Ordination Song
D1 Marching Band
D2 Pickerel Lake
D3 Niagara Falls
D4 Presidents & Magistrates
D5 Wolverine
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