Annotation

The front cover and spine of this album reads:

SUFJAN STEVENS presents... Greetings From Michigan The Great Lake State

Please do not enter a mod to change the title of this album to some variation on the above; it has come up and been voted down multiple times.


Label: Asthmatic Kitty - Catalog #: AKR007

Label: Sounds Familyre - Catalog #: 10

Annotation last modified on 2010-03-19 21:24 UTC.

Tracklist

# Title Rating Length
  CD 1
11 Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)
3:44
22 All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
4:34
33 For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti
5 3:57
44 Say Yes! to M!ch!gan!
2:46
55 The Upper Peninsula
5 3:23
66 Tahquamenon Falls
2:19
77 Holland
3:26
88 Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
8:21
99 Romulus
4:42
1010 Alanson, Crooked River
1:19
1111 Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
2:52
1212 They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For the Homeless in Muskegon)
6:21
1313 Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)
9:24
1414 Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
2:02
1515 Vito's Ordination Song
5 7:07

Relationships

acoustic guitar, banjo, bass guitar, bells, cymbals, drums, electric guitar, electric piano, english horn, glockenspiel, oboe, organ, other flutes, percussion, piano, recorder, shakers, tambourine, tin whistle, vibraphone and xylophone:
composer:
Sufjan Stevens (tracks 1–15)
lyricist:
Sufjan Stevens (track 13)
mastering:
producer:
Sufjan Stevens (tracks 1–15)
recorded by:
Sufjan Stevens (tracks 1–15)
trombone:
John Ringhofer (track 13)
trumpet:
Tom Eaton (tracks 1, 3, 8, 15)
Stephen Halker (tracks 4, 8, 13)
vocals:
Monique Aiuto (tracks 8, 15)
Vito Aiuto (track 15)
John Ringhofer (track 13)
Daniel Smith (vocalist for US indie-pop/gospel group Danielson Famile) (track 15)
Elin Smith (tracks 2–5, 11–13, 15)
Megan Smith (tracks 2, 5, 8, 11–13)
Sufjan Stevens (tracks 1–5, 7–9, 11–13, 15)
ASIN:
Discogs:
recording of:
Holland (track 7)
Romulus (track 9)
Tahquamenon Falls (track 6)