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| Released | July 1, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2003 in multiple locations | |||
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| Length | 65:58 | |||
| Label | Sounds Familyre, Asthmatic Kitty/Secretly Canadian, Rough Trade | |||
| Producer | Sufjan Stevens | |||
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Michigan (styled Sufjan Stevens Presents... Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lake State on the cover) is a concept album by American indie folk songwriter Sufjan Stevens, released on July 1, 2003, on Sounds Familyre, Asthmatic Kitty and Secretly Canadian in the US, and on Rough Trade in Europe. It is Stevens' third studio album and features songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Michigan.
The album is the first in Stevens' fifty states project, a planned series of fifty albums to encompass all fifty U.S. states. Stevens only released two state albums before admitting the project was a "promotional gimmick".[5] The other album was Illinois (based on the U.S. state of Illinois), which was released in 2005.
- ^ "Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "Five Reasons Sufjan Stevens' Michigan Gave Us Hope". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
- ^ "Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ Purcell, Andrew (27 October 2009). "Sufjan Stevens's symphony for New York". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2012.