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4th of July Flashback: 15 Rockin’ America-Themed Tunes for Your Independence Day
Some music to go with your beer and hot dogs
After yesterday’s semi-depressing story about what our Founding Fathers saw coming long before we did, I thought I’d lighten the mood on this 4th of July with some America-centric music. Unfortunately, I had the same bright idea last year and used up all the good songs in the process. I was terribly vexed.
Then, just like we got incredibly lucky beating the best army in the world 248 years ago, I got lucky with the day the holiday falls on: Thursday. You know how I love a good Throwback Thursday installment, even if they are inevitably an exercise in futility when it comes to giving life to an old article. Thus, I am sharing the story from last year here.
Even if you don’t click on the link below to increase the poor thing’s number of reads (everyone must have been at parades or picnics or in jail last year), click it for the Spotify playlist at the end. You need better music than your idiot brother-in-law’s hair metal playlist as you burn the burgers and undercook the chicken (cook that chicken longer).
As I said in the earlier piece, some of the songs here clearly have political undertones (some are outright protest songs), but ignore that. The only fight…
