On July 5, 2005, “Asthmatic Kitty” label released “Illinois” (Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel the Illinoise), the fifth Sufjan Stevens studio album. It was recorded 2004 – 2005, at “The Buddy Project” in New York City, and various locations in New York City, and was produced by Sufjan Stevens.
Personnel:
- Sufjan Stevens – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, Wurlitzer, bass guitar, oboe, alto saxophone, flute, banjo, glockenspiel, accordion, vibraphone, alto, sopranino, soprano, and tenor recorders, Casiotone MT-70, sleigh bells, shaker, tambourine, triangle, electronic organ, drums, arrangements, engineer, recording
- James McAlister – drums, drum engineering
- Craig Montoro – trumpet, backing vocals
- Julianne Carney – violin
- Rob Moose – violin
- Marla Hansen – viola
- Maria Bella Jeffers – cello
- The Illinoisemaker Choir – clapping, backing vocals
- Daniel and Elin Smith – clapping, backing vocals
- Katrina Kerns – backing vocals
- Shara Worden– backing vocals
- Matt Morgan – backing vocals
- Alan Douches – mastering
- Jon Galloway – remix
- Tom Eaton
- Jennifer Hoover
- Katrina Kerns
- Beccy Lock
- Tara McDonnel
- Divya Srinivasan – artwork
Track listing:
All tracks by Sufjan Stevens.
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- Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland, Illinois
- The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!
- Come On! Feel the Illinoise!” (Part I: The World’s Columbian Exposition – Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream)
- John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
- Jacksonville
- A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons
- Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!
- One Last ‘Whoo-Hoo!’ for the Pullman!!
- Go! Chicago! Go! Yeah!
- Casimir Pulaski Day
- To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament, and It Involves Tube Socks, a Paper Airplane, and Twenty-Two Able-Bodied Men
- The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
- Prairie Fire That Wanders About
- A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze
- The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
- They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
- Let’s Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don’t Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bloomington–Normal
- In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
- The Seer’s Tower
- The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Part I: The Great Frontier – Part II: Come to Me Only with Playthings Now
- 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
- Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run
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