Next Sufjan Stevens “state” album – California ?
May 15th, 2007
The singer and songwriter Sufjan Stevens has long had plans to make a concept album for each of the US’s 50 states.
In 2003 he released ‘Michigan’ and in 2005 the ‘Illinois’ album. Now he has suggested that the next state he will tackle in his series of concept albums will be California.
It has previously been speculated that Stevens would also write his next opus about Oregon, Rhode Island or Minnesota. In late 2005 and early 2006 Stevens played a new instrumental track titled “The Maple River.” The Maple River mentioned …

