My Friend Peter's Playlist

My friend Peter Shelton is a Brit who'd lived here for 20 years on Sept 11, 2001. Like people from many other countries who live here, he remarked on how lucky we Americans were that terrorist attacks, whether home grown or foreign, had been so rare in our country. Not that he wasn't sympathetic - after all New York is his adopted home where he's raised two boys and earned a living as a freelance video editor.

Two days after the attack he dropped off a CD, which he called Life During Wartime (NYC Sept 2001), with the following songs. They evoke so many of the roiling emotions from that time. It's great to listen to. See what you think:
-In My Life/The Beatles
-Times Have Changed/Bob Dylan
-Don't Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me/Charles Mingus
-Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Chet Baker
-Hymn #5/Earl Gaines
-Anything Goes/Ella Fitzgerald'
-Blue Skies/Ella Fitzgerald
-Castles Made of Sand/The Jimi Hendrix Experience
-A Love Supreme/John Coltrane
-Rough God Goes Riding/Van Morrison

Robin White Owen