Michigan

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Artwork:

Tracklist:

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. The 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 Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)
14. Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
15. Vito’s Ordination Song
16. Vito’s Ordination Song (Acoustic Demo) *
17. Marching Band *
18. Pickerel Lake *
19. Niagara Falls *
20. Presidents & Magistrates *
21. Wolverine *

Details:

Label: Asthmatic Kitty/Sounds Familyre (North America), Rough Trade (Europe)
Release Date: July 1, 2003 (North America), June 28, 2004 (Europe)
Catalog # AKR007/SF10 (North America), RTRADCD170 (Europe)
Format: CD, LP, digital download
Availability: CD and LP are available at select stores and directly from Asthmatic Kitty and Rough Trade, digital download available at iTunes or eMusic.

Additional notes:

• * These outtakes are available on the vinyl version of Michigan or at iTunes.
• Read the song descriptions for the Michigan outtakes.
• Sufjan Stevens: oboe, English horn, piano, electric organ, electric piano, banjo, acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspiel, recorders, wood flute and likeminded whistles, drum kit, various percussion, shakers, sleigh bells, tambourine, dramatic cymbal swells, singing, rhetoric.
• Featuring Elin Smith (vocals), Daniel Smith (vocals), Megan Smith (vocals), Tom Eaton (trumpet), John Ringhofer (trombone, vocals), Stephen Halker (trumpet), Monique Aiuto (vocals), Vito Aiuto (vocals).
• All original artwork hand painted by Laura Normandin.
• Stories, sound clips and more information are available on the Michigan web site at sufjan.com.
• A video was created by JL Aronson for the song “Romulus.” View the video at Creative Arson.

Reviews on this site:

• Comes With A Smile - Number 15 - Summer 2004 (review)
• Uncut - 2004

Reviews on other sites:

• Almost Cool
• Delusions Of Adequacy
• Dusted
• Ground And Sky
• Opuszine
• Pitchfork
• Somewhere Cold
• Sound The Sirens