Monday, May 30, 2011: Wilco - Ashes of American Flags

Someone turned me on to this song, and I think I played it a dozen times in a row before I could let it go and move on to another song.

Beware - here is a song that scoops you up by the collar, shakes you about, drenches you in its tears and whisky and then leaves you along the side of some country road just outside of town.

Also, there is some profanity (the "f" word, specifically) towards the beginning of the song.

If I'm honest, usually stuff like that disqualifies a song from being selected for CSOTD, but there is just to much beauty here to resist.

God in Heaven, this is a beautiful, powerful siren of a song.

Happy Memorial Day.