![]() ![]() “I remember driving home my last day on the job,” he says, “thinking about how any creative person is probably unemployed and looking for stuff to do.”īut this joyful bastardization of his project doesn’t really belong to Stevens, no more than the millionth YouTube cover of “Hallelujah” belongs to Leonard Cohen. ![]() Clift sat on the idea for years until this past March, when the world stopped, and he got laid off from his job writing for the Quibi show Useless Celebrity History. Even though Clift didn’t love the music, he was drawn into the imaginative spectacle of the 50 States Project and the possibility that Stevens would eventually make a record about his home state of Washington. states, finishing the job Stevens had once vowed-and famously failed-to complete?Ĭlift had been introduced to Stevens’ work in 2005, when the singer’s breakout album Illinois was as inescapable as capri pants. But during the early weeks of the pandemic, the 36-year-old comedian and television writer recalled an idea he’d been weighing for years: What if he recruited an assortment of people to record albums about all 50 U.S. Joey Clift never considered himself to be much of a Sufjan Stevens fan.
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