Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Reissued 2018, Originally released 2006
These are tracks not used on the "Illinois" album; some songs were finished, others weren't, requiring substantial editing, arrangements and/or vocals. The centerpiece of course, is the title track, "The Avalanche", a song intended for the leading role on "Illinois", but eventually cut and placed as a bonus track on the vinyl release. Almost every song on "Illinois" has a counterpart on this outtakes release. "In his own modest way, STEVENS has quietly become the master of micro over six years and five albums; his ornately detailed compositions hold a magnifying glass to the dusty ephemera in his curious scope - and, intermittently, the center creases of his US atlas"
Track listing:
- The Avalanche
- Dear Mr. Supercomputer
- Adlai Stevenson
- The Vivian Girls Are Visited In The Night By Saint Dargarius And His Squadron Of Benevolent Butterflies
- Chicago (Acoustic Version)
- The Henney Buggy Band
- Saul Bellow
- Carlyle Lake
- Springfield, Or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught In His Hair
- The Mistress Witch From McClure (Or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
- Kaskaskia River
- Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version)
- Inaugural Pop Music For Jayne Margaret Byrne
- No Man’s Land
- The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
- The Pick-Up
- The Perpetual Self, Or “What Would Saul Alinsky Do?”
- For Clyde Tombaugh
- Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder Version)
- Pittsfield
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The Undivided Self (For Eppie And Popo)