Ashes of American Flags - Wilco

From the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, "Ashes of Amercian Flags" by Wilco captured the post Sept 11th trauma & melancholy & sadness & disillusionment in music while the entire release offered some bit of comfort. It was released online a week after the Tuesday morning attacks, it unintentionally came to represent everything mentioned above plus more.

For me it is a marker of before and after innocence, before and after the attacks, before and after the smell working on Wall Street, before and after fear, before and after the birth of my first son (Aug 31) and the subsequent trauma of his hospitalizations after his birth and after the WTC dust clouds blew over us in Brooklyn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Hotel_Foxtrot

Dan Manco