SONG.REVIEWSAmerican indie-folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known for the 2003 album Michigan and the 2005 album Illinois. Between 2001 and 2006 he recorded five volumes of Christmas EPs that were collected as Songs for Christmas (November 21, 2006); his version of "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is on the second volume, Hark!.
Sufjan Stevens recorded his banjo-led version in 2002 for a Christmas EP and released it in 2006 in the Songs for Christmas box set -- a hymn about waiting, recast as an Advent song, that builds to an unaccompanied finish.
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