8 patriotic songs we'll have on our 4th of July BBQ playlist.
If you know of any other songs let us know in the comments below.
Los Lobos with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, This Land is Your Land
This rambling version of the iconic Woody Guthrie song was performed July 22, 1989 backstage at the Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wisconsin between sets on that summer’s Los Lobos/Grateful Dead tour.
Phil Ochs, The Power and Glory
One of the songs that established Ochs’s reputation, he saw it as a patriotic hymn combining the American dream with selfless faith-based ideals.
Loretta Lynn, Dear Uncle Sam
This Vietnam-era plea on behalf of soldier-husbands everywhere resonated far beyond the traditional, antiwar crowd when it was released in 1968.
Johnny Cash, Ragged Old Flag
Using a small town’s tattered old flag as a symbol for America’s conflicted history, Cash’s spoken word delivers testimony on heroism, strife, loss, victory, scandal, and abuse.
Leontyne Price, America the Beautiful
Written in 1893 by Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, this song not only speaks to the natural beauty of America but also expresses Bates’s view that US imperialism undermined the nation’s core values. In this version, opera star Leontyne Price performs at a 1992 benefit.
Gil Scott-Heron, Winter in America
One of Scott–Heron’s most well-received compositions, this bluesy lament mourns America’s lost promise: “And ain’t nobody fighting,/ ’Cause nobody knows what to save.”
Simon & Garfunkel, America
Inspired by a 1964 road trip across the US
Prince and the revolution, America
Prince wrote this funk-rock protest song in 1985 about the oft-ignored underbelly of the country he loved.
If you know of any other songs let us know in the comments below.
Los Lobos with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, This Land is Your Land
This rambling version of the iconic Woody Guthrie song was performed July 22, 1989 backstage at the Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wisconsin between sets on that summer’s Los Lobos/Grateful Dead tour.
Phil Ochs, The Power and Glory
One of the songs that established Ochs’s reputation, he saw it as a patriotic hymn combining the American dream with selfless faith-based ideals.
Loretta Lynn, Dear Uncle Sam
This Vietnam-era plea on behalf of soldier-husbands everywhere resonated far beyond the traditional, antiwar crowd when it was released in 1968.
Johnny Cash, Ragged Old Flag
Using a small town’s tattered old flag as a symbol for America’s conflicted history, Cash’s spoken word delivers testimony on heroism, strife, loss, victory, scandal, and abuse.
Leontyne Price, America the Beautiful
Written in 1893 by Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, this song not only speaks to the natural beauty of America but also expresses Bates’s view that US imperialism undermined the nation’s core values. In this version, opera star Leontyne Price performs at a 1992 benefit.
Gil Scott-Heron, Winter in America
One of Scott–Heron’s most well-received compositions, this bluesy lament mourns America’s lost promise: “And ain’t nobody fighting,/ ’Cause nobody knows what to save.”
Simon & Garfunkel, America
Inspired by a 1964 road trip across the US
Prince and the revolution, America
Prince wrote this funk-rock protest song in 1985 about the oft-ignored underbelly of the country he loved.
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