Album
Greetings From Michigan The Great Lake State
2004 · Electronic, Rock
35 collectors on Gatefold own this
Greetings From Michigan The Great Lake State is a Rock album by Sufjan Stevens, originally released in 2004. On Gatefold: 27 pressings tracked, owned by 35 collectors.
About
Though both offer the bounty of a place’s beauty, there’s a profound difference between a tourism pamphlet and a postcard. With the former, everything is always copacetic, advertising a utopia that awaits you and your money. But the postcard can transmit both majesty <i>and</i> minutiae—honest, first-person impressions from a tourist back to the place and people they call home. And despite its bucolic cover, Sufjan Stevens’ breakthrough album <i>Michigan</i> is essentially a series of postcards—recollections of his time in the Great Lake State, where he was born and raised. Ye, there are lovely images here: of waterfalls and winding river, and of a city so wondrou, it seems like the Industrial Revolution’s very apex. But those images are bound to complicated memories—to the little tragedies or miracles of Stevens’ youth. The album is less a portrait of Michigan than it is a movie about his life spent there. Before <i>Michigan</i> arrived in 2003, Stevens was a shy multi-instrumentalist working at the surprisingly busy intersection of Christian music and indie rock. He’d made a few curious record, and had been running Asthmatic Kitty, a small label for him and his friend. But as <i>Michigan</i> sprang from plaintive ballads to grandiose pop, and from 20th-century composition to pensive folk song, the audacious album made it clear the soft-voiced former Michigander was a budding visionary. Other musicians of his generation may have been flirting with this ornate instrumentation, but Stevens was slowly mastering it. .
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)
- A2All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
- A3For The Widows Of Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti
- A4Say Yes! To M!ch!gan!
- A5The Upper Peninsula
Side B
- B1Tahquamenon Falls
- B2Holland
- B3Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
- B4Romulus
- B5Alanson, Crooked River
Side C
- C1Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
- C2They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For The Homeless In Muskegon)
- C3Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)
- C4Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
- C5Vito's Ordination Song
Side D
- D1Marching Band
- D2Pickerel Lake
- D3Niagara Falls
- D4Presidents & Magistrates
- D5Wolverine
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Folk Rock
- lush
- earnest
- pastoral
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Sufjan StevensOBOE, ENGLISH HORN, PIANO, ACOUSTIC GUITAR, GUITAR, ELECTRIC ORGAN, ELECTRIC PIANO, BASS, BANJO, VIBRAPHONE, XYLOPHONE, GLOCKENSPIEL, RECORDER, FLUTE , WHISTLE, DRUMS, PERCUSSION, SHAKER, BELLS , TAMBOURINE, VOCALS, PERFORMER OBOE, ENGLISH HORN, PIANO, ACOUSTIC GUITAR, GUITAR, ORGAN , PIANO , BASS, BANJO, VIBRAPHONE, XYLOPHONE, GLOCKENSPIEL, RECORDER, FLUTE , WHISTLE, DRUMS, PERCUSSION, SHAKER, BELLS , TAMBOURINE, VOCALS, PERFORMER OBOE, ENGLISH HORN, PIANO, ELECTRIC ORGAN, ELECTRIC PIANO, ACOUSTIC GUITAR, ELECTRIC GUITAR, BASS GUITAR, BANJO, VIBRAPHONE, XYLOPHONE, GLOCKENSPIEL, RECORDER, FLUTE , WHISTLE, DRUMS , PERCUSSION, SHAKER, BELLS , TAMBOURINE, CYMBAL
- Daniel SmithVOCALS
- Elin K. SmithVOCALS
- John RinghoferTROMBONE TROMBONE, VOCALS VOCALS
- Megan SmithVOCALS
- Monique AiutoVOCALS
- Stephen HalkerTRUMPET
- Tom EatonTRUMPET
- Vito AiutoVOCALS
35 collectors on Gatefold own this · 27 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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