SUFJAN STEVENS / ILLINOIS

SUFJAN STEVENS / ILLINOIS Like the self-proclaimed "Spiderman" who climbed Chicago's Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, "ILLINOIS", a 22-track anthemic tone poem to The Prairie State. 1 Concerning the Ufo Sighting Near Highland, Illinois 2 Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish An Entire Civilization and 3 Come on! Feel the Illinoise!: Pt. 1: The World's Columbian Exposition 4 John Wayne Gacy, JR 5 Jacksonville 6 Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good 7 Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! 8 One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman 9 Chicago 10 Casimir Pulaski Day 11 To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea 12 Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts 13 Prairie Fire That Wanders About 14 Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens 15 Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! 16 They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from 17 Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It 18 In This Temple As in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth 19 Seer's Tower 20 Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders: Pt. 1: The Great Frontier/Pt 21 Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines 22 Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the