![]() ![]() Most of Friday's set came from his 2004 album, "Seven Swans" (Sounds Familyre). Stevens's latest album, "Illinois" (Asthmatic Kitty), the second in a series of albums he says he plans to write about the 50 states (following his home state, Michigan). Yet it was just a stripped-down version of the forces on Mr. So, I sat down and made this tab by watching videos of him playing it live. Email: Every tab Ive ever seen of this song has used the same chords, and I always felt like they never sounded the same as when Sufjan plays it live or on his album. The band included strings, brass, piano, glockenspiel and backup singers. To Be Alone With You - Sufjan Stevens Tabbed by: D.H. Songs were devout but not simply comforting they contemplated a deity who lets a girlfriend die of cancer in "Casimir Pulaski Day," who lovingly sacrifices himself in "To Be Alone With You," and who appears with visions and warnings in "Seven Swans": "He will chase you, he will take you if you run." He writes meticulous, enigmatic parables that find resolution where words dissolve into music.Īt the Thalia, he sang about leaving home, about feeling like a killer, about a sister and a father and about the power of an inscrutable God. ![]() ![]() Stevens, who performed in jacket and tie on Friday night. Yet there's nothing loose or hippie-ish about Mr. Stevens is part of indie-rock's rediscovery of what's now called psych-folk: the intricate, visionary songs of 1960's groups like Pearls Before Swine, the Holy Modal Rounders and the Incredible String Band. His songs start with the folksy sound of his high, reedy voice and his fingerpicked guitar or banjo, then unfurl as orchestral pop. Stevens ponders mortality and faith, nature and human nature. Drawing on the particulars of family and history, Mr. It's the kind of detail that runs through Mr. Stevens himself, to create an unassuming, subtly calibrated crescendo. Another musician joined her, and another, and eventually Mr. As Sufjan Stevens sang "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" on Friday night at the Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, a band member began snapping her fingers to the beat. ![]()
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