Tag: Music: Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens’ recent performance on Morning Becomes Eclectic is now available in streaming video. It’s a fantastic set. Three of the songs, “Casimir Pulaski Day,” “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.,” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” are on my “please, Sufjan, please play these when I see you in September” list. They’re also on my short list of the greatest hymns of the last century.

Lyrics:

• Casimir Pulaski Day
• The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
• Chicago
• John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
• A Good Man is Hard to Find
• Jacksonville

Update: Welcome to the Midwest has converted the Morning Becomes Eclectic show to mp3s. Is it odd that I started crying when I first heard this live version of “A Good Man is Hard to Find“? Consider it an unoffical Song of the Moment. Tomorrow morning I’m headed to Illinois, of all places.

I always keep an eye on Jeffrey Overstreet’s music suggestions (Jeffrey makes a wicked mix CD, by the way), and so I recently chased some links and ended up at InSound.com, where you can download a couple mp3s from Sufjan Stevens, including “Holland.” It’s a heckuva song from Greetings from Michigan. I’ve added it and Stevens’ latest, Seven Swans, to my Amazon Wish List. Can anyone make a strong case for one album being better than the other? Any other Sufjan fans?