Artist	Song
U2	4th of July
Grady Tate	Fireworks (Schoolhouse Rock)
Blasters	American Music
Chuck Berry	Back In The USA
Ray Charles	America The Beautiful
Beach Boys	4th of July
Lynn Ahrens	No More Kings (Schoolhouse Rock)
Elton John	Philadelphia Freedom
John C. Mellencamp	R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A
Kiss	Rockin' In The U.S.A.
Violent Femmes	American Music
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	American Girl
X	4th of July
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band	4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
David Byrne	Independence Day
Lynn Ahrens	The Preamble (Schoolhouse Rock)
Grand Funk Railroad	We're An American Band
James Brown	Hey America
Bob Dorough	The Shot Hear 'Round The World (Schoolhouse Rock)
Kate Smith	God Bless America
Dave Alvin	4th of July

Comment:

Hope everyone has/had a happy 4th of July. This is just something I threw together to listen to on our way to the cookout we're going to today. It might seem strange to start it off with the very atmospheric U2 instrumental, but it was actually pretty cool starting off with that since I started making this CD at 6:00 this morning, while holding my one-year-old, who had just woken up. Anyway, I might need to revise this (the James Brown song is actually a Christmas song), but this will do for now. The title comes from the X song, which is represented here both by the X version and by Dave Alvin's version, for which I thank Mo Twang! and thanks to Scott K for the Beach Boys' "4th of July."

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