The Avalanche

Tracklist

• 12" Vinyl 1
• 1
  The Avalanche
  3:14
  2.9 ★
• 2
  Dear Mr. Supercomputer
  4:40
• 3
  Adlai Stevenson
  2:34
  3.5 ★
• 4
  The Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius and His Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies
  1:49
  2.0 ★
• 5
  Chicago (acoustic version)
  4:40
• 6
  The Henney Buggy Band
  3:16
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Saul Bellow
  2:53
• 8
  Carlyle Lake
  3:15
• 9
  Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair
  4:17
  3.4 ★
• 10
  The Mistress Witch From McClure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
  3:24
  3.4 ★
• 11
  Kaskaskia River
  2:15
• 12" Vinyl 2
• 1
  Chicago (adult contemporary easy listening version)
  6:06
  3.6 ★
• 2
  Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
  1:25
• 3
  No Man’s Land
  4:45
  3.4 ★
• 4
  The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
  1:38
• 5
  The Pick‐Up
  3:23
• 6
  The Perpetual Self, or “What Would Saul Alinsky Do?”
  2:24
  2.0 ★
• 7
  For Clyde Tombaugh
  3:43
• 8
  Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version)
  4:35
• 9
  Pittsfield
  6:41
  3.4 ★
• 10
  The Undivided Self (for Eppie and Popo)
  4:58

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Release credits

• Craig Montoro
  trumpet [2.1, 2.3, 2.8-9, 1.2-3, 1.6, 1.10]
• James McAlister
  drums (drum set) [2.1-3, 2.8, 1.2, 1.6, 1.9], percussion [2.1-3, 2.8, 1.2, 1.6, 1.9]
• Katrina Kerns
  background vocals [1.1-2, 1.8-10, 2.1, 2.3]
• Rosie Thomas
  background vocals [2.3, 2.5-6, 2.8-9, 1.3, 1.5-7, 1.10]
• Shara Nova
  background vocals [2.1, 1.1-2, 1.8]
• Sufjan Stevens
  performer

Issues

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  (Combined release view)
• T
  The Avalanche

  CD
  10 July 2006
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  T
  The Avalanche

  CD
  11 July 2006
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  T
  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