Episode 025 · · 34 tracks
'Merica 250 (This Flag Is Not Orange)
A bipartisan Fourth of July salute for America's 250th birthday. 34 tracks from Elvis to Sam Cooke that argue, celebrate, mourn, and dance their way through the American experiment. Democracy's collapsin' but these wieners be slappin'.
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Playlist
- Elvis Presley American Trilogy
- Jimi Hendrix Star Spangled Banner
- Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings This Land Is Your Land
- Allen Toussaint American Tune
- James Brown Living in America
- Grateful Dead Liberty / U.S. Blues
- Linda Ronstadt Back in the U.S.A.
- The Clash I'm So Bored with the U.S.A.
- The Gourds Lower 48
- Prince America
- The Impressions This Is My Country
- Titus Andronicus A More Perfect Union
- Steve Miller Band Living in the U.S.A.
- Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove
- Chuck Prophet Let Freedom Ring!
- The Killers Land of the Free
- Swamp Dogg God Bless America for What
- Randy Newman Political Science
- Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A.
- Joe Purdy 4th of July
- Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son
- Drive-By Truckers Ramon Casiano
- Marvin Gaye What's Going On
- Los Lobos One Time One Night
- Violent Femmes American Music
- Counting Crows American Girls
- David Bowie Young Americans
- Supertramp Breakfast in America
- Hayes Carll American Dream
- Don McLean American Pie
- James McMurtry God Bless America
- Charles Bradley Why Is It So Hard?
- John Mellencamp We Are the People
- Sam Cooke A Change Is Gonna Come