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Sufjan Stevens

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2005, Asthmatic Kitty Reco

Like the self-proclaimed 'Spiderman' who climbed Chicago's Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, ILLINOIS, a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State. Stevens weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop, folk, and Rodgers and Hammerstein-like flourishes) and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous, infamous, iconic and anonymous. Invoking the muse of poet Carl Sandburg, 'Illinois' ushers in trumpets on parade, string quartets, female choruses and ambient piano scales arranged around Stevens' emerging falsetto.

Tracklisting

Disc 1

1	Concerning the UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois	PLAY
2	The Black Hawk War, or, How To Demolish An Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience But You're Going To Have To Leave Now, or, "I Have Fought The Big Knives And Will Continue to Fight Th	PLAY
3	Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream	PLAY
4	John Wayne Gacy, Jr.	PLAY
5	Jacksonville	PLAY
6	A short reprise for Mary Todd, who went insane, but for very good reasons	PLAY
7	Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step-Mother!	PLAY
8	One last "Whoo-hoo!" for the Pullman
9	Chicago	PLAY
10	Casimir Pulaski Day	PLAY
11	To The Workers of The Rock River Valley Region, I have an idea concerning your predicament, and it involves an inner tube, bath mats, and 21 able-bodied men	PLAY
12	The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts	PLAY
13	Prairie Fire That Wanders About	PLAY
14	A conjunction of drones simulating the way in which Sufjan Stevens has an existential crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze
15	The Predatory Wasp of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us	PLAY
16	They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh!	PLAY
17	Let's hear that string part again, because I don't think they heard it all the way out in Bushnell	PLAY
18	In This Temple As in The Hearts of Man For Whom He Saved The Earth	PLAY
19	The Seer's Tower	PLAY
20	The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Part I: The Great Frontier Part II: Come to Me Only With Playthings Now	PLAY
21	Riffs and Variations on a single note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to name a few	PLAY
22	Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I shake the dirt from my sandals as I run	PLAY

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