Today’s edition of Sunday Street provides a soundtrack for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

Opening set
Eric Andersen, My Land Is A Good Land (‘BOUT CHANGES AND THINGS, Vanguard)
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, This Land is Your Land (NATURALLY, Daptone Records)
Bruce Springsteen, The Land of Hope and Dreams (LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS EP, brucespringsteen.net)
Steppenwolf, ‘Monster/Suicide/America’ (MONSTER, Dunhill)

Set # 2
Randy Newman, Political Science (SAIL ON, Reprise)
Randy Newman, A Few Words in Defense of My Country (HARPS & ANGELS, Nonesuch)
Marianne Faithfull, That’s How Every Empire Falls (HORSES AND HIGH HEELS, Dramatico)
Richard Thompson, Pharoah (ACOUSTIC CLASSICS II, Beeswing)
Richard Thompson, Fergus Laing (STILL, Fantasy)
*Jesse Welles, Red (MASKS OFF, self-released)

Set # 3
*Jesse Welles, The Ballad of Big Balls (MASKS OFF, self-released)
Richard & Mimi Farina, House Un-American Blues Activity Dream (REFLECTIONS IN A CRYSTAL WIND, Vanguard)
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME, Columbia)
Dead Fingers, Subterranean Homesick Blues (via youtube,com)

Set # 4
*Neil Young, Long Walk Home (AS TIME EXPLODES, Reprise)
Bruce Springsteen, Long Walk Home ((LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS EP, brucespringsteen.net)
Traffic, Many A Mile to Freedom (THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH-HEELED BOYS, Island)

Set # 5
Tim Hardin, Simple Song of Freedom (SIMPLE SONGS OF FREEDOM, Columbia/Legacy)
Judy Collins, La Colombe (IN MY LIFE, Elektra)
Joan Baez, Saigon Bride (JOAN, Vanguard)
Tim Buckley, No Man Can Find the War (GOODBYE AND HELLO, Elektra)
Phil Ochs, Tape From California (TAPE FROM CALIFORNIA, A&M)

Set # 6
Jackson Browne, Lives in the Balance (SOLO ACOUSTIC VOL. 1, Inside)
The Kinks, Catch Me Now I’m Falling (LOW BUDGET, Arista)
*Eliza Gilkyson, Dark Ages (DARK AGES, Realiza)
*Swan Court, No Crown For A Clown (via youtube.com)
Jesse Welles w/Joan Baez, No Kings (MASKS OFF, self-released)
The Nields, Tyrants Always Fall (NOVEMBER, self-released )

Set # 7
Mark Knopfler w/James Taylor, Sailing to Philadelphia (SAILING TO PHILADELPHIA, Warner Brothers)
Jez Lowe, Dover, Delaware (HEADS UP: 18 ESSENTIAL JEZ LOWE SONG, Tantobie)
Ray Davies, Americana (AMERICANA, Legacy)

Dylan
Bob Dylan, Shenandoah (DOWN IN THE GROOVE, Columbia)
Bob Dylan, Cross the Green Mountains (TELL-TALE SIGNS, THE BOOTLEG SERIES V.8 , Columbia/Legacy)
Bob Dylan & Joan Osborne, Chimes of Freedom (THE 60’s: NBC MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK, Polygram)
*indicates new release or recent re-issue