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Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State

Sufjan Stevens  Main Performer

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1 Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid) Stevens 3:43
2 All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace! Stevens 4:33
3 For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti Stevens 3:57
4 Say Yes! to M!ch!gan! Stevens 2:45
5 The Upper Peninsula Stevens 3:23
6 Tahquamenon Falls Stevens 2:18
7 Holland Stevens 3:26
8 Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!) Stevens 8:20
9 Romulus Stevens 4:41
10 Alanson, Crooked River Stevens 1:18
11 Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie Stevens 2:52
12 They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For the Homeless in Muskegon) Stevens 6:21
13 Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? ...) Stevens 9:23
14 Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou) Stevens 2:02
15 Vito's Ordination Song Stevens 7:06
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Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State

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Label: Asthmatic Kitty

Category: Pop/Rock

Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State

UPC: 656605551012

Release Date: 08/17/2004

Original Release Date: 08/17/2004

Number of Discs: 2

Tracks: [Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid), All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!, For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti, Say Yes! to M!ch!gan!, The Upper Peninsula, Tahquamenon Falls, Holland, Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!), Romulus, Alanson, Crooked River, Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie, They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For the Homeless in Muskegon), Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? ...), Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou), Vito's Ordination Song]
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Gregory McIntosh

Sufjan Stevens's third album is a charming homage to his home state of Michigan. Filled with heartbreak, the album cryptically addresses Stevens' frustration with the notorious job market in the city of Flint in a lovely ballad that opens the record, and documents the depressing struggle the city of Detroit has fought to once again attain the elegance it had prior to the riots in the late '60s; however, it also touches on a brighter side, as in the cascading "Say Yes! to M!ch!gan!" Its title is a reference to the campaign adopted by the state in the 1980s and serves as the centerpiece as well as Stevens' attachment and amour for the state he is from. Musically, Stevens often plays his Jim O'Rourke and Stereolab cards, riffing along with complex polyphony in building loops and dynamics, but he also frequently imports lightly strummed guitars and stark banjo picking to break up the album and give it a rustic northern folk aesthetic. Stevens comfortably handles nearly every instrument on the album -- an impressive task that includes various keyboards, woodwinds, guitars, and percussions -- but also enlisted the help of Megan, Elin, and Daniel Smith from the Danielson Famile to help out with vocal duties, and the outcome is a haunting and hypnotic studio opus certainly worth getting lost in. ~ Gregory McIntosh, Rovi

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