The Avalanche

Tracklist

• 1
  The Avalanche
  1:49
• 2
  Dear Mr. Supercomputer
  4:17
• 3
  Adlai Stevenson
  3:24
• 4
  The Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius and His Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies
  6:07
• 5
  Chicago (acoustic version)
  1:25
• 6
  The Henney Buggy Band
  2:24
• 7
  Saul Bellow
  4:35
• 8
  Carlyle Lake
  3:14
• 9
  Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair
  4:20
  3.4 ★
• 10
  The Mistress Witch From McClure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
  2:34
• 11
  Kaskaskia River
  4:40
• 12
  Chicago (adult contemporary easy listening version)
  3:16
• 13
  Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
  2:53
• 14
  No Man’s Land
  3:15
• 15
  The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
  2:15
• 16
  The Pickup
  4:45
• 17
  The Perpetual Self, or “What Would Saul Alinsky Do?”
  1:38
• 18
  For Clyde Tombaugh
  3:24
• 19
  Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version)
  3:43
• 20
  Pittsfield
  6:51
  3.4 ★
• 21
  The Undivided Self (For Eppie and Popo)
  4:59

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Illinois

Illinois 2005

Javelin

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Fourth of July

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Futile Devices (Shigeto remix) 2012

Dreams

Dreams 2026

Release credits

• Craig Montoro
  trumpet [2, 20]
• James McAlister
  drums (drum set) [2, 9], percussion [2, 9]
• Katrina Kerns
  background vocals [2, 8-9]
• Rosie Thomas
  background vocals [20]
• Shara Nova
  background vocals [2, 8]
• Sufjan Stevens
  performer [2, 8-9, 20-21]

Issues

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  The Avalanche

  CD
  10 July 2006
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  T
  The Avalanche

  CD
  11 July 2006
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  The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras From the Illinois Album

  Digital Media
  11 July 2006
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  The Avalanche

  2x 12" Vinyl
  31 August 2018