Welcome to The Welcome Wagon

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Welcome to The Welcome Wagon
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Studio album by The Welcome Wagon
Released December 9, 2008
Genre Indie folk
Language English
Label Asthmatic Kitty
Producer Sufjan Stevens
The Welcome Wagon chronology
Welcome to The Welcome Wagon
(2008)
Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing – EP
(2009)
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Welcome to The Welcome Wagon is a folk rock music album by The Welcome Wagon, released in 2008. It was produced by Sufjan Stevens, who also arranged the songs, contributed background vocals and played the banjo and occasionally the piano.

The Welcome Wagon is a Gospel/indie pop band from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The group consists of Presbyterian minister Thomas Vito Aiuto and his wife, Monique. Their debut album, Welcome to the Welcome Wagon (2008) was produced by Sufjan Stevens.

Sufjan Stevens American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His debut album A Sun Came was released in 1999 on the Asthmatic Kitty label, which he cofounded with his stepfather. He received wide recognition for his 2005 album Illinois, which hit number one on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, and for the single "Chicago" from that album. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media for "Mystery of Love" from the movie Call Me by Your Name.

Track listing

  1. "Up on a Mountain" – 3:34
  2. "Sold! To the Nice Rich Man" – 4:11 (Danielson Famile cover)
  3. "Unless the Lord the House Shall Build" – 1:46
  4. "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word" – 4:38
  5. "Hail to the Lord's Anointed" – 3:36
  6. "But for You Who Fear My Name" – 3:21
  7. "American Legion" – 5:05
  8. "You Made My Day" – 4:01
  9. "Half a Person" – 2:53 (The Smiths Cover)
  10. "Jesus" – 4:30 (Velvet Underground Cover)
  11. "I Am a Stranger" – 6:09
  12. "Deep Were His Wounds, and Red" – 2:17
  13. "Skilled" – 2:08


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