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Released: May 2005
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
This Land of Lincoln salute presents a refreshingly original indie history lesson backed by an orchestra of trumpets, flutes, choir and banjos. Even the saddest songs ("Casimir Pulaski Day") sound euphoric in their soulful honesty. Plus, anyone who rhymes "Decatur" and "emancipator" in a song about Abe's hometown deserves a key to the city, if not the state.
- Michele K-Tel
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 2005-06-27
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    Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL
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    The Black Hawk War
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    6:45
    Come on! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition/Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream
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    John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
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    Jacksonville
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    A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good Reasons
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    Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!
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    One Last 'Woo-hoo!' for the Pullman
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    Chicago
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    Casimir Pulaski Day
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    1:40
    To the Workers of the Rockford River Valley Region
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    The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
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    Prairie Fire That Wanders About
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    A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze
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    5:23
    The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
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    5:09
    They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhhh!
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    0:40
    Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bushnell
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    In This Temple, as in the Hearts of Man, for Whom He Saved the Earth
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    3:53
    The Seer's Tower
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    7:02
    The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Part I: The Great Frontier/Part II: Come to Me Only With Playthings Now
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    0:46
    Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few
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    Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I shake the Dirt From My Sandals As I run