Trivia / Carrie & Lowell

• Creator Breakdown: Writing and performing the album was a means for Stevens to cope with his mother's death.
• Throw It In!: Ambient noises (like the sound of the air conditioning) can be heard in the background of some of the tracks.
• What Could Have Been: Supposedly, the material which became Carrie & Lowell was originally conceived as an Oregon-based entry to Sufjan's long-abandoned Fifty States Project. Both the record itself and several of the songs Suf wrote or released around the same time feature references to the geography and culture of the Beaver State.

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