Join Dave Stroud tomorrow night for some Fourth of July Americana from the last century of America’s music. He’s been digging into those dusty digital archives for songs celebrating America. It’s the Fourth of July and all of the fireworks, flags, bunting, barbecues, and patriotic celebrations can be traced back as well to a century of America’s music. We’ve got broadway and silver screen classics, country music new and old, songs with tongue-in-cheek flag-waving wit, and a number of ballads that celebrate the good in all of us…we’ll also reflect on a little bit of the bad. Our playlist Friday night includes The Piper’s Gap Ramblers, Dave Alvin, James Brown, Morton Gould doing Sousa, Randy Newman, and many more in an eclectic blend of patriotic pandering and tongue-in-cheek rambling.
| No. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
| 2 | Woody Guthrie | This Land Is Your Land (Alternate Version) | Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection |  |
| 3 | Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers | Fourth Of July At The Country Fair (1927) | Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 | |
| 4 | Pipers Gap Ramblers | Yankee Doodle | Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 1] | |
| 5 | Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys | Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima | Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys | |
| 6 | The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Stars And Stripes Forever | Stars And Stripes Forever | |
| 7 | John Prine | Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore | In Person & On Stage | |
| 8 | Phil Ochs | Power and the Glory | There But for Fortune | |
| 9 | Bob Dylan | Chimes Of Freedom | Another Side Of Bob Dylan | |
| 10 | Cisco Houston | Roll On Columbia | Best Of The Vanguard Years | |
| 11 | Randy Newman | Sail Away | Sail Away | |
| 12 | Randy Newman | My Country | Bad Love | |
| 13 | Robert Earl Keen | Forth Of July | Picnic | |
| 14 | Steve Earle | Dear Old Flag | Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War | |
| 15 | Dave Alvin | Fourth of July | Romeo's Escape | |
| 16 | Neil Young | America The Beautiful | Living With War | |
| 17 | The Abyssinian Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir | Battle Hymn Of The Republic | The Civil War | |
| 18 | Rosanne Cash | 500 Miles | The List | |
| 19 | Morton Gould: Morton Gould Orchestra | Sousa: Fourth Of July | Brass & Percussion | |
| 20 | London Symphony Orch./Copland | Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man | Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. | |
| 21 | Kate Smith | God Bless America | American Songbook Series: Irving Berlin | |
| 22 | James Cagney | Yankee Doodle Boy | Warner Brothers 75 Years of Film Music (2) | |
| 23 | The Delta Rhythm Boys | Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition | The Best Of 1940-50 | |
| 24 | The Merry Macs | Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition | The Groups Sing [Disc 2] | |
| 25 | Willie Nelson | American Tune | Across The Borderline | |
| 26 | John Mellencamp | Small Town | Scarecrow | |
| 27 | Bobby Bare | God Bless America Again | The Essential Bobby Bare | |
| 28 | Ray Charles | America the Beautiful | Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection | |
| 29 | James Brown | Living In America | Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky | |