Artist	Song
Sound FX Intro	Excerpts from
Dan Bern	9-11-01 (A nearly 9 minute 'Dust Bowl'-esque ballad written and recorded within days of 9-11)
Sound FX	"Witnesses Of The Attacks"
Bruce Springsteen	Into The Fire
President Bush	"Psalm 23" (From 9-11 Oval Office Address, asking people to pray for those mourning)
Jeff Buckley	Hallelujah
Billy Falcon	Heaven's Highest Hill
Jon Stewart	"The View From My Apartment" (Moving excerpt from his Daily Show return)
Peter Stuart (with Matchbox 20)	Waiting For Peace To Come (Another song written and recorded quickly after 9-11)
David Letterman	"Last night in Montana" (A story from his Late Show return about a small town raising money for NYC)
The Push Stars	Miracle
Dan Rather + David Letterman	"'America The Beautiful' Will Never Be The Same" (CBS Anchor breaks down, Dave comforts him)
Ray Charles	America The Beautiful
Rudy Giuliani/Saigon Kick	Feel The Same Way (Brief SFX intro of former NYC Mayor saying 'Rebuild NYC)
Richard Gebhardt, John McCain, Zell Miller, and an Irish NYC Guy	"Osama Bin Laden Can Kiss My..." (Montage of angry sentiments)
Stoke 9	Kick Some Ass!
Paul McCartney	Freedom
President Bush/Stone Temple Pilots	Revolution (Contains a Bush byte about attacks on Afghanistan)
NPR Sound Excerpt	"Signing Up For Jihad"
Steve Earle	John Walker's Blues
Neil Young	Imagine
Conan O'Brien/Fountains Of Wayne	Better Things (Live Intro from show + Studio recording)
President Bush	"Goodnight and God Bless America" (Closing of his 9-11-01 Oval Office Address)
Ryan Adams	New York, New York

Comment:

I wanted to make a mix that captured different emotions, themes, and perspectives on the events of 9-11. My own views are just that, my own, but the absence of country songs should tell you something. Tracks 1-4 are to give an overview of what happened; Tracks 5-7 cover collective sadness and personal loss; Tracks 8-11 touch on coming together, trying to find hope, etc; Tracks 12-17 on patriotism, rebuilding and the military campaign; Tracks 18-21 offer a ying/yang political perspective (if you haven't heard the Steve Earle song, it's chillingly good); Track 22 is kind of where I think a lot of people are now, trying to move on and see a bright future; 23 wraps it up and 24 is a nod to the hope that songs like Adams' (written before 9-11) can use NYC as a backdrop without 9-11 being the first thing that comes to mind. That might take a while. Anyway... there has been/will be mixes like this one that are better and/or different from mine. I will say that I have never worked harder on a mix in my life...so please be kind. :) Thanks.

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