Sufjan Stevens - Cross Over The Mississippi Into The Great State of Louisiana! (2008)
[more songs with the sound of "The Avalanche", a few grand orchestral songs but it's more subtle and soft and sweet for the majority of the record. More like Michigan than Illinois]
1. Roaring Waters of the Mississippi (2:12)
2. Evangeline, or, A Tale of Acadie (4:12)
3. Lafayette, the Heart of Acadiana (Part 1: Johnston, Jefferson - Part 2: I Mourn at Clark Field) (6:34)
4. A Sturgeon's Lament! (3:38)
5. Toledo Bend, or, Huey P. Long's Handshake (5:32)
6. Creole Musings (0:49)
7. New Orleans, I Have Returned! (Part 1: Bobby Hebert, You Are Welcome Here - Part 2: Mississippi Soliloquies) (6:42)
8. How Can You Say So When The Bread Has Not Baked? (2:21)
9. I-10, or, This Was Not the Original Destination (0:23)
10. Great Depression, Great Migration (5:37)
11. Soulful Rendition of Traditional Cajun Lore (1:01)
12. O Death, Your Sting Has Been Lost (2:54)
13. An Improvisational Breakdown In The Style of the Great Jazz Legends (0:43)
14. Plaquemine Parish, You Have Done It Again! (1:30)
15. Vermillionville (4:44)
16. Camp Beauregard (3:09)
17. Katrina, A Tribute To The Storm That Destroyed Us All (11:34)
18. My Soul Is Carried By The River and Flows Out Into The Delta (1:56)
fuck man i wish sufjan would revive the 50 states project even if it was just a marketing ploy
>>60582918
same, but i'm pretty sure that someone like pitchfork would pan a few of the albums
>implying he wouldn't employ brass bands and jazz timbres and make a New Orleans meme album
Sufjan Stevens: Sufjan Stevens Would Like To Invite You To Florida, The Sunshine State!
>Baroque Pop, Singer-Songwriter
1. Ho! A New Land! (Ponce de Leon Sets Foot in a Strange New Place)
2. Let's Hear it for Those Wonderful Alligators!
3. Andrew Jackson
4. Jacksonville pt.2: The River City by the Sea!
5. Miami
6. Greetings from Key West to Cuba!
7. The Sound of 10 Sufjans Singing a Single Harmony
8. Trail of Tears
9. Osceola, Chief of the Seminoles, Goes on the Warpath
10. Rifts and Variations of a Single Note pt.2
11. Quick! We Must Sail To The Mainland! Hurry!
12. The Saint Johns River, How You Flow So Oddly!
13. The Mouse of Orlando Steals Our Hearts Again
14. Kissimmee
15. Key Lime
16. Blasting Off from Cape Canaveral, Sufjan Stevens Witnesses the Majesty of Space, or, "We Choose to Go to the Moon, Not Because It Is Easy, But Because It Is Hard"
17. Jaguars and Buccaneers and Dolphins Oh My!
18. The Sun Sets on the Sunshine State
Sufjan Stevens - Aloha! Welcome to Hawaii!
1. Kingdom of Hawai'i - 2:30
2. Wind, Waves, and Wings! - 0:36
3. Honolulu - 4:54
4. Kalani Paiʻea Wohi o Kaleikini Kealiʻikui Kamehameha o ʻIolani i Kaiwikapu kaui Ka Liholiho Kūnuiākea's Innate Fear of Heights Gets the Better of Him - 0:14
5. The Arrival of Cook! or The Only State Without a Straight Line! or The Sandwich Islands! - 7:43
6. The Nene Flies Over and Notices Something Unusual - 4:33
7. Kīlauea and Mauna Loa Erupt with Full Force! (Amazing Display of Nature's Power) - 1:46
8. Pearl Harbour - 8:34
9. Pele, the Goddess of Volcanoes, Wind, Lightning and Fire, Creates Quite the Storm - 5:55
10. Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Lives On) - 5:31
11. Kāne‘ohe - 6:44
>>60583033
>The Sound of 10 Sufjans Singing a Single Harmony
Kek
But it should have at least one track about the Everglades, and one sung in Spanish
Sufjan Stevens: Arrive in Virginia With Me, My Friends!
>some alt-bluegrass-influenced bullshit probably
1. The Queen Was Sworn to Chastity (But the Land Itself Is Fertile)
2. Potomac
3. Like A Cherry Tree, O, I Am Felled! Mourn Me! Do Not Tell Lies of My Passing!
4. Sally Hemings
5. The Copperhead Snake Is Less Dangerous Than Your Treacherous Heart
6. Appomattox
7. The Strange and Brackish Waters of the Chesapeake Wash Over Us
8. Appalachia
9. Why It Is Always Better to Carefully Consider One's Options and Place Oneself On the Morally Upstanding Side of a Conflict, or How an Intelligent Man Made a Grave Mistake, or the Ruination of a Legacy, or What Transpired From the Years '61 to '65
10. Sufjan Stevens Silently Stands in the Sterling Suburbs
11. Shirley McLaine
12. The Vapors Grasp Me! O, Mercy! I Entreat You!
13. Away Into the Westward Mountains
>>60582885
Somebody do one for Wisconsin. im from wisconsin and i want to see how you people think of my state and its ways
>>60582885
Sufjan has already done my state Michigan and the state im going to school at so here one for Ohio.
Welcome to Ohio! The Great state of shit!
1. I got shot in Cleveland (But hey the Indians won for once)
2.The Toldeo war or Give Us Back Our Clay you Michigan Fags
3.Say Hello! To Gang Violence!
4. 2012 (or the time we fucked the savior Romney over)
5. Michigan is better than us!
>>60583659
I kekked
I made one for Devon (in the UK), since I'm almost certain he'll never actually make this record himself.
>Sufjan Stevens Takes You Down To Devon: Heart of the West Country
>1. An Unscheduled Fireworks Display For The Townsfolk Of Uffculme, 1998
>2. The Tarka Trail
>3. Clotted Cream And Scones, or, My Tearoom Is Facing Increased Competition From The Co-Op Next Door!
>4. Plymouth
>5. Exmouth (For It Is Here We Reach The End Of The Jurassic Coast, Although Not The End Of The Coastline Per Se...)
>6. A Crummy Hotel In Torquay (But Perhaps Not The One You Were Expecting)
>7. Westward Ho!, or, A Town Not As Enthusiastic As Its Name Implies
>8. For The Hard-Working Shipbuilders Of Bideford, We Salute You
>9. Isca Dumnoniorum
>10. Surrender Yourself To The Power Of The Wind, O Great Sea Wall At Dawlish!
>11. The Lynton and Linmouth Funicular
>12. A Night Spent Sleeping In My Car, Undisturbed Amongst The Ponies On Dartmoor
>13. Lundy Island
>14. Saltern Cove
Greetings From Maine!
1. Wow It's Cold
2. September Leaves and the Evergreens!
3. Why Is It Still So Cold
4. Fuck
5. The Graceful Trees Are Here and... The Trees... Lots of Trees Bring uh...
6. ...
7. O Air! How the Cold Fucked My Mother
8. s-s-sshit
9. Statutory Rape of the Palisades
10. Stephen King is From Here We Think?
Sufjan Stevens Went Down to Georgia!
1. Of Peaches and Preachers
2. The Belt of the Sun (feat. Michael Stipe)
3. The Pride of the Savannah
4. The Secret Formula, or, How Prohibition Gave Birth to This Caramel Cold Cola Concoction
5. Too Busy to Hate, Rising Again, Tragedy at the Centennial (feat. Andre 3000)
6. How Ted Turner Saved Television, and then Saved the World
7. South of Heaven, Pt. 1: The 100% American Imperial City and the Coming of the Grand Wizard
8. South of Heaven, Pt. 2: The Conference of Christian Leaders and the Return of the King
9. Not One, Not Two, But Three Governors
10. Emory and Ivory, Music and Math (feat. Robert Schneider)
11. Jimmy Carter Lusted in His Heart for Freedom
12. Yazoo: Tocatta and Fugue (for Kazoo)
13. Mephistopheles Traveled Below to a Southern State Whose Motto is 'Wisdom, Justice and Moderation'
