Rising to Our State of Sufjan
By now, unless you’re just a pure pop culture addict or living in an NPR free world, you’ve heard of Sufjan Stevens. Moreover, you likely know that he’s on a quixotic mission to write an album about each of the 50 states. He’s written of Michigan and his record about Illinois is masterful. What if Sufjan Stevens decided to skip New Jersey and Oregon and instead focus on writing an Album about Georgia right now? What would his titles be?
Here are some possibilities:
- Oh Great Land of Granite Outcrop (parsing the stones)
- The war of Northern Aggression or how big a fire can there really be before God gets nervous?
- What if we are all Wayne Williams?
- A brief recognition of how important Howard Finster was to making people realize that more important than looking at art was actually making it for yourself and letting other people see it until they understood (38 seconds)
- I Can See 7 States From Here: Lookout Mountain
- Time to bury the dead.
- Decatur or, Round of Applause for your Stepmother
- One last Hoorah for President Jimmy Carter
- Atlanta
- Martin Luther King- a day lost
- To the workers who died building the Olympic Stadium
- That Church is so Beautiful
- Squares - a Savannah Song
- The lost jellyfish of Lake Allatoona
- Why did they put the temple in the big box store?
- The Great Goddess of DragonCon
- Atrium
- I see nothing but the Lord, I-75, and Waffle House… then Valdosta.
- The rising Phenix.
- Howyermomenem?
- Riffs and harmonies that Robert Shaw would have thought of if he were alive today and John Portman has commissioned him to make an opera of the music of REM if he were really nervous
August 20th, 2005 at 9:41 am
That must be the most unflattering possible angle of the Holy Spirit church. Then again, any picture of a building that includes its parking lot is likely going to be unflattering.
August 21st, 2005 at 10:12 pm
An album about Georgia? The superb German label, Bear Family Records, has done just that. They recently put out a few “various artists” compilations that are each devoted to vintage country and hillbilly songs about a specific state. I think they did one for Texas, Alabama, and Tennessee. Most importantly, however, they did one for Georgia. It’s called Greeting From Georgia, The Peach State. Here is what it offers.
1. Georgia On My Mind - Frankie Laine
2. Sweet Georgia Brown - Pat Boone
3. It’s A Long, Long Way To Georgia - Don Gibson
4. Georgia Camp Meeting - Chet Atkins
5. Rainy Night In Georgia - Wynn Stewart
6. Georgia Sunshine - Dean Martin
7. Watermelon Time In Georgia - Lefty Frizzell
8. Poor Red Georgia Dirt - Stonewall Jackson
9. Devil Went Down To Georgia, The - Charlie Daniels
10. Burn, Georgia Burn - Tompall Glaser
11. Cedartown, Georgia - Waylon Jennings
12. Columbia Stockade Blues - Willie Nelson/Shirley Collie
13. Miller’s Cave - Hank Snow
14. All Over Hell And Half Of Georgia - Jerry Lee Lewis
15. Tennemonk, Georgia - Carl Mann
16. Marching Through Georgia - Joe Maphis
17. If I Ever Get Back To Georgia - Hank Snow
18. Georgia Boogie - Curley Williams
19. Wild Georgia Boys - Jim & Jesse
20. Georgia Piney Woods - The Osborne Brothers
21. Bringin’ In The Georgia Mail - Flatt & Scruggs
22. My Little Georgia Rose - Bill Monroe
23. Peach Pickin’ Time In Georgia - Jimmie Rodgers
24. Atlanta, Georgia - Jimmie Davis (recorded 1946)
25. Sweet Georgia Brown - Country All Stars
And here is a link to where you can “buy it now” on eBay. (I do not know or have any affiliation with the seller….just thought it would be of interest.)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Greetings-From-Georgia-25-GA-Themed-songs-BEAR-FAMILY_W0QQitemZ4753625565QQcategoryZ307QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem