| Greetings From Michigan is the latest Rock CD put | | | | "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 15 - Vito's Ordination |
| out by the richly talented Sufjan Stevens who once | | | | Song. Wow! |
| again has delivered a brilliant collection of tracks. I'm | | | | Greetings From Michigan Release Notes: |
| confident Sufjan Stevens fans, and Rock fans alike | | | | Sufjan Stevens originally released Greetings From |
| will be pleased with this one. | | | | Michigan on July 1, 2003 on the Sounds Familyre label. |
| It's a rare day indeed that I get a CD from an artist | | | | CD Track List Follows: |
| that I can truthfully say does not have a bad track in | | | | 1. Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid) 2. All |
| the bunch. I'm more than happy to announce that's | | | | Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your |
| exactly what I must say about this one. There simply | | | | Peace! 3. For The Widows In Paradise, For The |
| isn't a bad one in the bunch. No fillers here at all, with | | | | Fatherless In Ypsilanti 4. Say Yes! To M!ch!gan! 5. |
| each song standing tall on it's own. | | | | Upper Peninsula, The 6. Tahquamenon Falls 7. Holland |
| These days it's a very rare CD on which every single | | | | 8. Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! |
| song is good or better than the one before it. This | | | | Restore! Reconsider!) 9. Romulus 10. Alanson, |
| CD is certainly one of those rare CDs. | | | | Crooked River 11. Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie 12. |
| Listen and I think you'll agree that the song choices | | | | They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For The |
| are excellent, the production is outstanding and | | | | Homeless In Muskegon) 13. Oh God, Where Are You |
| Sufjan Stevens is clearly in top form. | | | | Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? |
| While this entire CD is really very good some of my | | | | Mackinaw?) 14. Redford - (For Yia-Yia & Pappou) 15. |
| favorites are track 2 - All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! | | | | Vito's Ordination Song |
| Or Forever Hold Your Peace!, track 3 - For The | | | | Personnel includes: Sufjan Stevens (various |
| Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti, | | | | instruments); Elin Smith, Daniel Smith (vocals); Tom |
| and track 11 - Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie | | | | Eaton (trumpet); John Ringhofer (trombone, |
| My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in | | | | background vocals). |