Wilco - Jesus, Etc (clip)

What this video is

Released amid the wreckage of Wilco's rupture with Reprise Records, 'Jesus, Etc.' belongs to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, an album initially self-streamed on Wilco's website in September 2001 — days after the 9/11 attacks — before its official Nonesuch Records retail release in April 2002. The song's lyrical imagery of tall shaking buildings and voices escaping took on an unplanned resonance with the attacks, though the…

Why it matters

Wilco's 'Jesus, Etc.' represents the artistic apex of the alt-country-to-art-rock transition, blending chamber string arrangements with Jeff Tweedy's plainspoken surrealist lyricism. The track is emblematic of the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot era's fusion of Americana, experimental production, and…

The director

Sam Jones is an American photographer and film director born in Fullerton, California. His portrait work has appeared on covers of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, and Time. He directed the acclaimed 2002 black-and-white documentary I Am Trying to…