Sufjan Stevens - Outtakes, Non-Album Tracks, Rarities

To keep us primed for the upcoming for The Avalanche, throughout the day I'll be posting songs from my collection of Sufjan outtakes, non-album tracks and rarities. These songs will convince you of the massive talent that Sufjan has, and keep us all confident that he will complete the 50 states project, maybe even do Canada. Here's part 1, and stay tuned.

Borderline (B-side from The Dress Looks Nice On You 7")
She Is (Cover of Tim Buckley's "She Is" is included on the album Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim & Jeff Buckley)
The Lord God Bird (song written for the National Public Radio (NPR), celebrating the story of the ivory-billed woodpecker of the great Southern swamp forest, last undisputedly sighted in 1944, now rediscovered near Brinkley, Arkansas)
The Lord God Bird (Story, accompanied by the Sufjan song, as told by Brinkley folks, produced by independent radio producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister)
Variation on Commemorative Transfiguration and Communion at Magruder Park (from I Am The Resurrection – A Tribute to John Fahey).