the "one time" and "one place" that 151a inhabited seems further than ever
you can hear Jazz rhythm and timing while the instruments trade off solos like they are talking to each other
"Won't you lay near me please / goodbyes aren't easy to swallow / Here take my heart for me / I don't need all this old sorrow" Tasha sings
The 10-track set cooks on songs of the day like "By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Stevens, Sufjan - Illinois My Echo the "one time" and "oneA 22 track anthematic tone poem to the Prairie State, emphatically answering the question, "Can a songwriter express the spirit of a state he's never called home?" Sufjan weaves various musical styles (jazz, funk, pop) and instrumental textures into a tapestry of persons famous, infamous, and anonymous, and places iconic, obscure, and ghostly. Myths, memories, and incidental anecdotes are swept up with symphonic flourishes. Implementing 25