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Michigan (styled Sufjan Stevens Presents... Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lake State on the cover) is a concept album by American indie folk songwriter Sufjan Stevens, originally released on July 1, 2003 on Sounds Familyre, Asthmatic Kitty and Secretly Canadian in the US, and on Rough Trade in Europe. It is Stevens' third studio album and features songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Michigan.
The album is the first in Stevens' fifty states project, a planned series of fifty albums to encompass all fifty U.S. states. Stevens only released two state albums before admitting the project was a "promotional gimmick". The other album was Illinois, which was released in 2005.
Tracklist
A1 Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)
A2 All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
A3 For The Widows Of 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
(Bonus Outtakes)
D1 Marching Band
D2 Pickerel Lake
D3 Niagara Falls
D4 Presidents & Magistrates
D5 Wolverine
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