This is a bit of a grandiose title for a blog post. But it is important to have ambition right? In 2003, after releasing Michigan, Sufjan Stevens announced his intention to release one album as an ode to each of the fifty American states, appropriately named the Fifty States Project. Despite only completing two albums (the other being Illinois) I appreciate his ambition, and desire to be thorough (and also those wacky costumes).