Number of Discs: 2 Composed as a geographical tone poem, MICHIGAN follows a metaphysical expedition through the idiosyncrasies of middle America. Drawing from personal anecdote, regional history, and state heritage, Stevens mixes social and political grievances with songs about snowmobiles, Henry Ford, the Detroit race riots, and love. MICHIGAN's songs resonate with a range of sources-Vince Guaraldi, Terry Riley, and Nick Drake as accompanied by Stereolab and The Sea & Cake-in executing Stevens' peculiar palette that is simultaneously rock and blue-grass, jazz and pop, a style The Village Voice appraises as "Arthur Lee meets the Book of Psalms."Tracks1 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 Ypsilanti4 Say Yes! to M!Ch!Gan!5 Upper Peninsula6 Tahquamenon Falls7 Holland8 Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)9 Romulus10 Alanson, Crooked River11 Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie12 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?...)14 Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)15 Vito's Ordination Song
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